Are you looking for ways to increase your students’ subject performance and their command of academic language or of the language of schooling?

This ECML activity addresses the development of subject literacies and transferable skills in contexts where learners are operating in more than one language, e.g. education of migrant children, content and language integrated learning (CLIL):

Content and Language Integrated Learning |
A pluriliteracies approach to teaching for learning

The pluriliteracies approach will enable workshop participants to facilitate deep learning across languages, disciplines and cultures and it will provide ideas for adapting teaching approaches and materials to facilitate deep learning.

This offer is targeted at teachers, teacher trainers and curriculum writers and provides training courses and workshops to design material, reflect on teaching and learning, and plan learning sequences.

ECML experts in language education work with national authorities and local experts to devise and implement in-country activities, tailored to the particular context and target audience.

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If you are looking for input for an in-service training to develop the professional skills of language educators or are in need of consultancy to advance local, regional or national reform processes and to meet international standards, take a closer look at what the ECML has on offer. Information on offers and the 2019 request form are available online: http://www.ecml.at/TrainingandConsultancy

Requests for a training and consultancy activity must be submitted via the national ECML representative in the Governing Board. Educational professionals interested in organising a particular activity should therefore contact their national representative.

Deadline for submission of requests by the ECML Governing Board member: 4 November 2018

Are you looking for input for an in-service training to develop the professional skills of language educators? Or are you in need of consultancy to advance local, regional or national reform processes and to meet international standards? Then take a closer look at what the ECML has on offer.

ECML experts in language education work with national authorities and local experts to devise and implement in-country activities, tailored to the particular context and target audience.

Information on offers and the 2019 request form are available online: http://www.ecml.at/TrainingandConsultancy

Requests for a training and consultancy activity must be submitted until 4 November 2018 via the national ECML representative in the Governing Board.
Educational professionals interested in organising a particular activity should therefore contact their national representative.

Local organiser: Sona Hakobyan, Eurasia International University, Yerevan, Armenia
ECML experts: Frédéric Taveau and Dunja Chamberlain, International School of Geneva, Switzerland
Participants: 31 school teachers, associate professors, assistant professors, faculty members from different educational institutions, decision makers and multipliers

CLIL is a relatively new approach to learning where content is learnt through the foreign language in an integrated way so that language learning is linked with other areas of the curriculum. The advantages of this approach are that the teaching is focused on content whilst language is used for an authentic purpose and is assimilated in a natural context. This can firstly boost learners’ motivation to learn languages. The Armenian education institutions are in their initial stage to implement CLIL in the content of study programmes.

CLIL trainings and CLIL education in general will enable teachers to identify the appropriate content to be taught, to view the content from different cultural perspectives, deploy strategies to support language learning in content classes, to scaffold language learning during content classes by learning specialized vocabulary, etc. All in all, through CLIL approach one can develop crucial intercultural attitudes, critical cultural awareness and action taking, hereinafter.

All the participants of the workshop were happy with the results of the event as they got new portion of professional knowledge and skills which they may further use in their teaching practice.

Since the content of CLIL is new to the educators in Armenia, we hope that the trained experts later will act as multipliers by introducing the main ideas of CLIL to smaller groups at their education institutions.

Sona Hakobyan, local coordinator of the event

• More information about the ECML training and consultancy offer for member states “A pluriliteracies approach to teaching for learning”
• ECML pages dedicated to Armenia (national contacts, participants in ECML projects, resources)

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ARMENIAN VERSION

Լեզվի ուսուցման նոր մոտեցումները,որոնք հնարավոր է զարգացնել կրթական բոլոր դասընթացների միջոցով, կարևոր գործիք է շաղկապելու օտար լեզուները և կրթական ծրագրերը: Բովանդակային և լեզվի ինտեգրված ուսուցումը միաժամանակ խթանում է սովորողների և լեզվական և առարկայական հմտությունների և կարողությունների զարգացումը: ՀՀ կրթական հաստատություններն առաջին քայլերն են անում ներմուծելու ԲԼԻՈՒ մոտեցումը կրթական ծրագրերի բովանդակության մեջ:

Բովանդակային և լեզվի ինտեգրված ուսուցումը հնարավոորություն է ընձեռում ուսուցիչներին կենտրոնանալ բովանդակային խնդիրների վրա, ձևավորել սովորողների միջմշակութային  հմտությունները և միջմշակութային վերաբերմունք: Հատուկ բառապաշարի ներմուծումը կարևոր դերակատարություն ունի այս գործում: