A Journey Into CLIL-Friendly Pedagogies to Inform Teacher Professional Development

Abstract

CLIL effective pedagogy has been uncovered during the last two decades, and literature points to a number of considerations that CLIL teachers should take into account if they aspire to ensure optimal teaching and learning practices. Among other aspects, CLIL effective pedagogy may bear in mind a range of issues such as multimodal communication, oral communication, pedagogical translanguaging, collaborative teaching, critical thinking, and cooperative learning. In the present chapter, these will be described and justified from a theoretical perspective as relevant pedagogical ideas that CLIL professional development should consider. In addition, each of these CLIL-friendly pedagogical practices will be accompanied by an illustrative exemplification settled in a primary education context to facilitate their understanding and let readers clearly perceive how they may be operationalized at the classroom level.