Discourse in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Classrooms

by Christiane Dalton-Puffer

The label CLIL stands for classrooms where a foreign language (English) is used as a medium of instruction in content subjects. This book provides a first in-depth analysis of the kind of communicative abilities which are embodied in such CLIL classrooms. It examines teacher and student talk at secondary school level from different discourse-analytic angles, taking into account the interpersonal pragmatics of classroom discourse and how school subjects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9027219818
• ISBN13: 9789027219817
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 330 Pages