Do Coyle discusses methods of implementation for bilingual approaches in ELT programmes.
Do Coyle is a Professor of Languages Education and Classroom Pedagogies and Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange in the School of Education, University of Edinburgh. Her research involves bilingual pedagogies especially in CLIL contexts and technology-enhanced learning including the use of shared learning spaces and digital communication. Do is most known for her work in bilingual pedagogies in the field of integrated learning using more than more language.
She has published extensively on learning through the medium of other languages and has worked globally with governments and agencies to promote bilingual education in English medium settings. This talk 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, Do believes 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, Do 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.
Watch the full recording of this talk from the Better Learning Conference 2018 here: