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AUTHOR
Ana Llinares García
CLIL classroom discourse
Under the label of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) the teaching of curriculum subjects through the medium of a foreign language has become a widely accepted feature in mainstream education systems in Europe and other parts of the world. After contextualizing its subject matter in CLIL research as a whole, this article focuses on research into classroom discourse. In order to unravel the complexities involved, three different takes on CLIL classroom discourse are discussed as an evidence-base for (a) language learning, (b) language use and social-interactional aspects of L2-interaction, and (c) processes of knowledge construction in and through a second or foreign language. T…
The effect of teacher feedback on EFL learners' functional production in classroom discourse.
The present study is based on the analysis of classroom interactions between children and with their teacher both in first and second language contexts. The subjects of our study are two five-year-old classes in an English bilingual school in Madrid, with two different teachers, and one five-year-old monolingual class. The source of our analysis is Halliday’s classification of the communicative functions that children can convey in their mother tongue at the pre-school level (Halliday, 1975). Our premise is that the functional variety of children’s production and their use of language for their own communicative purposes is highly related to both frequency and type of teacher feedback. This…