Do Coyle - Adapting, adopting and implementing bilingual approaches in our programmes

This session seeks to provoke some questions with regard to shifts and turns in more recent socio-cultural and political landscapes which are rapidly changing the face of classrooms across the world. Given that increasing numbers of classes are multilingual and multicultural, I believe that learning in any context with languages other than the learners' first is offering a rich opportunity to build on what we know supports successful learning whilst extending and re-conceptualising through a more holistic lens the role of (pluri)literacies in learning across ages and stages across languages and contexts. In particular, I will draw on more recent research in content and language integrated learning and look at how these principles and practices might impact positively on more language-oriented classrooms.