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CLIL - Content and Language Integrated Learning

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CLIL - Content and Language Integrated Learning

All of the colleagues on this page work in content and language integration as teachers, trainers, materials writers and consultants.

If you need some help, get in touch, they'd be glad to help.

Keith Kelly is a freelance education consultant based in Bulgaria. He has an undergraduate degree in Modern Languages and a PGCE in French, Russian and German from Bristol University. He then took a Masters degree in English Language Education at Manchester University. He is an experienced teacher and teacher trainer, a team member of Science Across the World, and an Associate Tutor for the Norwich Institute for Language Education (NILE). Keith is also a founder and coordinator of the Forum for Across the Curriculum Teaching (FACT). From 1999-2003 Keith was coordinator of the English Across the Curriculum project for the British Council in Bulgaria where he worked in and with bilingual schools around Bulgaria and the region. Keith, along with John Clegg, is co-author of the CLIL MA Module for NILE and Leeds Metropolitain University. Keith is author of the Macmillan Science and Geography Vocabulary Practice Series and was made a Fellow of IUPAC (The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry) in January 2008 for his contributions to the programme. He has been working as a freelance education consultant since August 2003 on education projects mainly focusing on the teaching of content through the medium of a foreign language. (keithpkelly@yahoo.co.uk)

John Clegg is a freelance education consultant based in London. He works with teachers, schools and education authorities who are involved in teaching primary and secondary subjects through the medium of English as a second language. He does this in CLIL (content and language integrated learning) projects in Europe, multicultural schools in the UK and English-medium education in Africa and elsewhere. Most recently he has worked in Italy on CLIL projects and in Ethiopia on teacher-development materials for teachers of subjects in English. In 1996 he edited Mainstreaming ESL, a collection of teacher narratives from different English-medium countries on how they moved the education of minority langage learners of English into mainstream school. He works regularly with Keith Kelly on CLIL courses. For 20 years he worked in the School of English Language Teaching at Thames Valley University London, where he collaborated with Jean Brewster, and now works as an occasional lecturer at the University of Bristol. (jclegg@lineone.net)

Dr. Lida Schoen received a doctorate in (analytical) Chemistry from the University of Amsterdam in 1972. Since then she has been involved in education in chemistry and Teacher Training (Amsterdam). In 1996 she started her own educational consultancy, with mainly governmental commissions. Examples are experimental materials for a new chemistry curriculum (A-level), e.g on spectrometry and biochemistry and for general science on the male pill. A last commission came from the Social Security to write a curriculum and teaching materials to reintegrate unemployed people by means of computer work. Lida is co-creator with Keith Kelly of the YAC (Young Ambassadors for Chemistry) project and is an active team member and promoter of Science Across the World programme. In 2007, Lida was made a Knight of the Order of Orange Nassau by her Majesty the Queen for her contributions to Science education in and raising public understanding of chemistry. (amschoen@xs4all.nl)

Lyubov Dombeva is a freelance teacher and teacher trainer based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Lyubov has a degree in Biology with a speciality in teaching Biology in English and teaches Biology through the medium of English in two schools in Sofia. Lyubov is a member of the Bulgarian English Teachers' Association presenting regularly at the BETA annual conference on Content and Language Integrated Learning. Lyubov has been a dedicated participant in the Science Across the World programme since 2000 and organises international school projects for her schools such as the Solar School Forum. Lyubov contributed to the teaching of the Language Across the Curriculum courses FIT1 and FIT2 for French CLIL teachers at Norwich Institute for Language Education, July 2006. (dombeva@abv.bg)

Stefka Kitanova has been teaching Biology and Chemistry in English and Spanish since 1991. And since 1998 she has been involved in course development, pre-service and in-service teacher training in the field of CLIL/LSP and subjects taught through a FL. She also works in the field of innovative approaches in language learning/teaching and opportunities for collaboration and cooperation at all levels of educational system. Stefka Kitanova is a coordinator and/or team member of several projects on CLIL/LSP and has been delivering workshops, seminars and summer schools showing possibilities for collaboration between Subject and Language teachers in order to facilitate Teachers and Students with the language as well as to develop communicative skills. She is a school book author and has many publications in the field of LSP. (butsa13@abv.bg)

Tim Herdon has a degree in Modern Languages (French and Italian), and a Masters Degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from Reading University. He has twenty-two years experience in teaching, training, school management and writing teaching materials. For much of his career he has taught English in England, Spain and Japan, working in both private and public education. From 2001 to 2005 he was director of the American School of Valencia, a PreK – 12th Grade school offering a fully bilingual education. Recently he has worked on CLIL training projects in England, at the Norwich Institute of Language Education (NILE), and in Spain. He is based in Valencia, and now works as a freelance education consultant. In the context of CLIL he is particularly interested in literature, music and art. (therdon61@yahoo.com)

Susan Hillyard was awarded a B.Ed.from Warwick University (U.K.) in 1972 in Dramatic Arts and Sociology and has lived and/or worked, since then, as a classroom teacher, a coordinator, a Head of Sector or a teacher trainer in eleven different countries. She taught Language IV at I.S.P. en Lenguas Vivas and at U.T.N., teacher training colleges in Buenos Aires, Argentina while being head of Secondary in a Bilingual School in the province of Buenos Aires. She is Educational Advisor for The Performers, an educational theatre group and an Educational Consultant. She has co-authored a Resource Book for Teachers “Global Issues” for OUP, and teaches a course on Creativity on-line for Net-Learning. In terms of CLIL her interests lie in drama, literature and current affairs. Her work with teachers concentrates on holistic methodology, leadership skills, motivation, global understanding and lifelong learning. (hillyard@ciudad.com.ar)

Egbert Weisheit teaches Biology and Chemistry in Kassel, Germany and is a teacher trainer offering in-service teacher development in the region. His foreign languages include English and French and he is particularly interested in communication in Science and developing cross-curricular activities in his teaching and training. Egbert focuses his work on practical activities, experiments and outdoor work in Science. An area Egbert specialises in is teaching Science in English. Egbert has been a team member of Science Across the World for a number of years and is the programme's representative in Germany. (eweisheit@scienceacross.org)

Aleksandra Zaparucha has an MA in Geography (1989) and English (2001) gained at the Nicolas Copernicus University (UMK) in Toruń, Poland. She has been teaching both for almost 20 years, and four years ago she started teaching Geography bilingually in the Secondary School Complex no. 10 in Toruń. She is also teaching general English in Empik language school as well as various courses at the UMK (general English, British Studies, Irish Studies, Socio-economic Geography). In 2006/2007 she led the first CLIL course for future Geography teachers at the UMK. She has co-operated with Field Studies Council, Geographical Association and British Council at various events, courses and publications, and is the author of three translations of Polish Geography textbooks into English, as well as numerous articles in Polish, British and Irish magazines on teaching Geography, English and Geography in English. (olazap@wp.pl)

Phil Ball works for the Federation of Basque Schools (Ikastolas), based in San Sebastián. He has a degree in English Literature and Language, a PGCE in English, and an MA in Applied Linguistics from Essex University. He began teaching in the late 1970’s in an English Comprehensive School, moved to a bilingual immersion school in Lima, Peru, then taught in Oman before ending the journey in Spain, where he has lived in the Basque region since 1991. He taught Phonetics and Linguistics at the University de Deusto for six years before moving into materials writing and teacher-taining for the Basque Government and then for the Basque Federation of Schools, and has been closely involved with their successful plurilingual project, ‘Eleanitz’, now up and running since its inception in 1991. He is also a distance tutor on the Funiber MA TEFL, and has recently written a CLIL module as part of the degree materials. He has been involved in several European projects, has written five CLIL textbooks for the Basque Schools’ social science syllabus (studied in English), and co-written and performed the music for the award-winning primary project, ‘Story Projects’. His book about his early teaching experiences in an English Comprehensive have been recently published in England (‘The Hapless Teacher’s Handbook’) and he is currently working on an adjunct scheme to publish English language materials which form a support syllabus for CLIL subject teaching. (ball.philip6@gmail.com)

Dr. Brian Bielenberg is an Educational Linguist with over 20 years of teaching experience based in Limassol, Cyprus. He has an MS degree in Materials Science (University of Virginia), an M.Ed. in Bilingual Education (Northern Arizona University), and a Ph.D. in Educational Linguistics (University of California-Berkeley). Over the past 8 years, Brian has developed and delivered a number of pre- and in-service teacher training courses and workshops focused on teaching Mathematics and ICT in English to English Language Learners (ELLs) through CLIL approaches. His most recent CLIL project was with university Mathematics and ICT instructors in the United Arab Emirates. Brian has taught Mathematics, Science and English as a Second Language at the secondary school level on the Hopi and Havasupai Indian Reservations in the United States and in Cameroon, Africa. At the university level in Cyprus, the U.S. and the United Arab Emirates, he has taught English Grammar, Phonetics and Phonology, General English, Second Language Acquisition, and Teaching Methodology courses. Brian is currently involved in research that focuses on the academic literacy and academic language needs and challenges in mathematics and ICT classrooms, including teacher responses to them. In addition to his CLIL work, Brian is certified as an Infusing Thinking Skills trainer and coach by the National Center for Teaching Thinking (Boston, USA). (btbielenberg@gmail.com)