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9 - Supporting Peer Collaboration and Social Cohesion in Multilingual Classrooms

Practical Insights from Content-Based Learning Contexts

from Part III - New Knowledge and Future Directions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2020

By
Gabriela Meier
Edited by
Kim Bower ,
Do Coyle ,
Russell Cross  and
Gary N. Chambers
Kim Bower
Affiliation:
Sheffield Hallam University
Do Coyle
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh
Russell Cross
Affiliation:
University of Melbourne
Gary N. Chambers
Affiliation:
University of Leeds
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Summary

This chapter focuses on communication opportunities afforded by three different content-based education contexts: TWI, CLIL and education of the official school language as an additional language. This is a literature review guided by a conceptual and thematic analysis, whereby the themes focus on assumptions associated with learners and learning as well as communication opportunities. It concludes that peer collaboration in content-based learning offers social potential that may be relevant more generally in education and that specific elements of CLIL pedagogy, especially the Language Triptych, and translanguaging can play an important role in this.

Keywords

content-based learningtwo-way immersionsecond language educationcommunication social cohesion
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Curriculum Integrated Language Teaching
CLIL in Practice
 , pp. 165 - 186
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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