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Top-Down and Bottom-Up CLIL Teacher Development: Lessons Learned from Austrian In-Service CLIL Teacher CPD

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This chapter describes the content of the Austrian CLIL CPD programmes and highlights the need for a clear balance between course input and participant practice. The chapter presents examples of lesson materials developed from a range of upper secondary curriculum subjects. The chapter also presents a selection of feedback from teachers and students about their experiences both in training and as learners. The chapter outlines specific achievements and challenges of the Austrian CLIL CPD programmes. Areas of achievements and challenges refer to the following: theoretical versus practical aspects of school curriculum subjects; the balance of theoretical input and hands-on practice during the CPD; growing experiences from individual tasks to multiple-lesson sequences; developing communication in upper secondary curriculum subjects; identifying and activating key curriculum language.

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    Not applicable to Vienna with 50% of population having migration background, https://www.wien.gv.at/english/social/integration/facts-figures/population-migration.html—accessed 19.10.18.

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    Research suggests that CLIL students do not achieve less well than monolingual counterparts (Dobson et al., 2010; Jaeppinen, 2005). It is important that everyone knows this, and they are able to air their concerns, have them heard and responded to in an informed manner.

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Bärnthaler, A., Kelly, K. (2021). Top-Down and Bottom-Up CLIL Teacher Development: Lessons Learned from Austrian In-Service CLIL Teacher CPD. In: Hemmi, C., Banegas, D.L. (eds) International Perspectives on CLIL. International Perspectives on English Language Teaching. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70095-9_10

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