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This article addresses the inclusion of immigrant minority language students in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) bilingual education programmes. It reviews results of research on (1) the reasons, beliefs and attitudes underlying immigrant minority language parents’ and students’ choice for CLIL programmes; (2) these students’ profici...
The study of motivation in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts has hitherto one-sidedly been concerned with motivation to learn the foreign language, without regard for CLIL’s eponymous focus on the inextricable connection between language and content. To fill this gap, this article focusses on CLIL learners’ motivation not onl...
This article sets out an argument in favour of policy-based provision for immigrant minority language (IM) students' inclusion in and access to plurilingual Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) programmes. First, it provides a summary of the research evidence on these students' achievement in CLIL programmes, and the motivations underlyi...
The internationalisation of higher education poses a specific challenge to university lecturers: they are required to teach students in another language than their own mother tongue and that of their students. As a result, institutions of higher education devote much attention to instructional language proficiency of their lecturers. Language tests...
We argue that in order for the EU 2020 educational goals to be achieved, a large-scale implementation of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is necessary. This educational approach not only ensures knowledge of multiple languages but it also stimulates pupils in such a way that they reach a higher cognitive level. To enable such large-s...
It has been observed that bilinguals have an advantage on tests of cognitive control, such as the Simon task (Bialystok et al. 2004). This advantage has been attributed to the bilingual's need to constantly manage two competing languages. However, the neural correlates of this effect have not been fully understood. Although many of the networks in...
