John Clegg, CLIL

Developing Standards in European bilingual education
Europe is enthusiastic about education through a foreign language. But as yet we don't have a clear idea of what it is, how to do it, and under what conditions it works. And so we don't have agreed standards of school practice.
The aim of this presentation is to propose some initial evaluative criteria for bilingual education. In doing so, it will attempt to take account of some two problems which make this task difficult:

Firstly, bilingual education encompasses differing models: from small-scale experiments in content-based language teaching to large-scale programmes for teaching subjects wholly through a foreign language.

Secondly, contexts differ: what is possible in one country may not work in another. And for any one model we may disagree on standards for methodology, teacher and learner language levels, or expertise gained.
This presentation will disentangle various forms of bilingual education and show how they require different evaluative criteria.

John Clegg is an education consultant based in London specialising in teaching the primary and secondary curriculum through the medium of English as a second language. He works with teachers in English-medium education in Africa, in content and language integrated learning in Europe and in multicultural education in the UK.

Keith Kelly, CLIL

The British Council Germany delivered a series of workshops on CLIL - Content and Language Integrated Learning - in Germany from November 1-22, 2003.

Teachers at the workshops were offered insight into current approaches to teaching through the medium of English, as well as opportunities for professional networking in CLIL through the FACTWorld (Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching - www.factworld.info) and subscription to the Science Across the World programme (www.scienceacross.org). The presentation will present the results of the workshops mentioned above, at the time of writing 10 events in 8 venues around Germany, and in doing so offer insight into the 'state of the art of CLIL' in Germany.

This paper will also present Science Across the World to conference participants including the opportunity to sign up the exchange programme and to try out and take away materials from the SAW projects.

The speaker is a freelance teacher trainer and worked as coordinator of the British Council English Across the Curriculum Project in Bulgaria for four years. He is co-founder and coordinator of the FACTWorld network and Journal currently working as a NILE Associate Tutor and Consultant to the SAW programme.

Lida Schoen, CLIL

Cosmetics: science or communication?
In this practical workshop participants will produce a 'line' of cosmetics and design an advertising campaign for television to sell it. At the end of the workshop teams present their commercial in a competition, either for the other participants or in public. The line can be national, country teams add a national flavour; for a school, school teams add something school specific; within the school, teams within the class sell their lines i.d. at a fund raising fancy fair.

This is a good example of CLIL, science teachers take care of the content (and usually don't care much about the communication), language teachers are good in communication and need content. Clear instructions for both science and language teachers and students will be provided.

Lida Schoen studied chemistry and has been a teacher and teacher trainer since. Eight years ago she started her own educational consultancy, mainly working for governmental bodies. She is part of the Science across the World team and titular member of the committee on chemistry education of IUPAC, the world chemistry organisation. Special interest: public understanding of science.

Lothar Schmitt, CLIL

In this workshop we will explore the ways in which a subject such as geography (if taught in English) and its inherent methodology can enhance language learning. We will draw on English and geographical textbooks and materials to show the subject's significant role in integrating content and language and assessing the learner's performance, but also try to identify which linguistic standards have to be met by the students for them to be able to develop their academic skills.

The second part of the workshop will be devoted to planning and discussing lessons for various types of schools and age groups and to exchanging ideas and experiences.
Participants should be involved in teaching geography and / or related subjects in English as a foreign language, but EFL teachers interested in cultural and regional studies are equally welcome.

Lothar Schmitt is a teacher of English, Geography and Political Science (both in English and German) at Sophie Charlotte-Oberschule, Berlin since 1990; involvement in the conception of the school's bilingual programme; member of the advisory council for English at 'Senatsschulverwaltung Berlin' from 1995 - 98; participation in various international projects and exchange programmes.

Martina Wider-Kippe, CLIL

In 2001 the canton of Zürich started a pilot CLIL project involving altogether ten high schools (Gymnasien). Subjects such as sports, music, maths, physics, geography, history or economy and law are offered in English and the students participating in the programme will graduate from their schools with a so-called bilingual high school diploma (zweisprachige Maturität).

A course was developed on how to teach bilingually for all teachers involved in the programme which is offered annually for the duration of the project.
In the workshop, approaches to a new methodology for the bilingual classroom will be presented, the concept of the Zürich course and its contents will be discussed, the needs and problems of bilingual teachers will be analysed and the implications for language teaching will be looked at.

Martina Wider studied English at the University of Zürich where she also taught English linguistics courses. She has been teaching English at high schools and in teacher training courses since 1996. She is also the project manager of the teacher training course for bilingual teaching in the Zürich pilot project.

Marilena Suciu works in the fields of English Language Teaching, teacher training, assessment and human rights education and has been a member of various British Council projects. She is currently senior teacher in Gh Lazar National College, Sibiu, Romania. She co-authored the first human rights textbook for Romania.