Dear colleagues,

The October update to onestopclil is now online:

there is a lot happening on onestopclil this month. The articles from specialists in the field of CLIL focus on Skills for CLIL and there is a lot else besides: 

- Editorial - A focus on vocabulary

Keith Kelly takes you through the range of resources on onestopclil that help you support subject-specific language development and reviews the new resources available this month (including new wordlists, question loops and experiments).

http://www.onestopclil.com/section.asp?theme=mag&catid=237&docid=1227

- The language dimension of CLIL

Keith Kelly argues that language, and an explicit focus on it, is at the heart of CLIL methodology.

http://www.onestopclil.com/section.asp?catid=77&docid=1228

- Study Skills for CLIL

Jean Brewster writes a series of articles outlining key skills for CLIL supplemented with sampler materials

http://www.onestopclil.com/section.asp?catid=317

- Skills for CLIL

In this article John Clegg outlines the language and learning skills which a learner learning a subject through the medium of English as a second language (L2) requires.

http://www.onestopclil.com/section.asp?docid=1230&catid=238

- You can find out what colleagues have written about onestopclil and who the winners are of the competition 'I like onestopclil because.... '

".... it is revolutionary and enhances my lessons in a way learners can profit tremendously from content and language learning."

http://www.onestopclil.com/section.asp?catid=232&docid=1234

- There is also a debate raging on the discussion forum revolving around the role of language in CLIL. Should we focus on it, how important is it, join in and tell us what you think!

http://www.onestopclil.com/forum_discussion.asp?discussion=18&discussiontype=48

Best wishes

Keith

Oct 12th, 2009