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S170 2/2 | The dynamics and challenges of teacher education for immersion and CLIL contexts: Preparing teachers to integrate language and content

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Immersion and CLIL contexts have grown globally over the past several decades (e.g., Tedick, 2015; Mehisto & Genesee, 2015; Pérez-Cañado, 2016), and there are increasing calls for quality teacher education for CLIL and immersion teachers in a range of different contexts. Teacher education is a complex process, and additional factors add complexity to the education needs of immersion and CLIL teachers. Teaching in immersion or CLIL requires a special knowledge base and skill set that emphasize pedagogies for content and language integration (e.g., Llinares, Morton, & Whittaker, 2012; Lyster, 2007; Tedick & Zilmer, 2018). In this symposium we will explore international perspectives on the dynamics and challenges of teacher education for immersion and CLIL settings at all educational levels. The symposium will begin with featured speaker, Susan Ballinger (McGill University), who will focus on the importance of developing teachers' CLIL awareness (Lindahl, Baecher, & Tomas, 2015) while reporting on three recent projects in diverse content-based contexts. Symposium organizers Diane Tedick and Ruth Fielding invite proposals that are closely linked to the symposium theme at either pre-service or in-service levels to enable discussion of the needs and experiences of novice and more experienced CLIL and immersion teachers.

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August 18, 2021 02:30 PM - August 18, 2022 06:00 PM(Europe/Amsterdam)
Venue : Room 1
20210818T1430 20210818T1800 Europe/Amsterdam S170 2/2 | The dynamics and challenges of teacher education for immersion and CLIL contexts: Preparing teachers to integrate language and content

Immersion and CLIL contexts have grown globally over the past several decades (e.g., Tedick, 2015; Mehisto & Genesee, 2015; Pérez-Cañado, 2016), and there are increasing calls for quality teacher education for CLIL and immersion teachers in a range of different contexts. Teacher education is a complex process, and additional factors add complexity to the education needs of immersion and CLIL teachers. Teaching in immersion or CLIL requires a special knowledge base and skill set that emphasize pedagogies for content and language integration (e.g., Llinares, Morton, & Whittaker, 2012; Lyster, 2007; Tedick & Zilmer, 2018). In this symposium we will explore international perspectives on the dynamics and challenges of teacher education for immersion and CLIL settings at all educational levels. The symposium will begin with featured speaker, Susan Ballinger (McGill University), who will focus on the importance of developing teachers' CLIL awareness (Lindahl, Baecher, & Tomas, 2015) while reporting on three recent projects in diverse content-based contexts. Symposium organizers Diane Tedick and Ruth Fielding invite proposals that are closely linked to the symposium theme at either pre-service or in-service levels to enable discussion of the needs and experiences of novice and more experienced CLIL and immersion teachers.

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Susan Ballinger
McGill University
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Mary Immaculate College
Corinne Mathieu
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University of Wisconsin - Green Bay
Dr. Paula Kristmanson
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University of New Brunswick- Second Language Research Institute of Canada
Felicitas Fein
University of Koblenz-Landau
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University of Minnesota
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Monash University
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