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The Role of CLIL in Learning About TESOL: Reflections from an Australian Master of TESOL Course

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International Perspectives on CLIL

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TESOL and CLIL have much in common because English is a popular target language for CLIL in Europe and beyond. However, in the internationalised higher education context of a Master of TESOL (MTESOL) course in Australia, CLIL can be difficult to navigate. In this chapter, I will address the complexity by reflecting on my experiences as a teacher educator in an Australian MTESOL course. I will also explain two roles of CLIL in learning about TESOL that I have found to be useful. The first role is contextual and relates to the framing of TESOL as bilingual education. The second role is pedagogical. Through my reflections, I hope to highlight the benefits of CLIL, in relation to the positioning both of TESOL in general and of language teachers in particular.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    The MTESOL course has since been restructured and is set to include a greater number of shorter units.

  2. 2.

    In the newly restructured MTESOL course, the content of this unit has been expanded and divided over three units with two of these scheduled early in the two years.

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    In the unit, dual-language immersion in the United States is considered under heritage bilingual education because the minority language speakers were the catalyst for the approach (see de Jong, 2016).

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Turner, M. (2021). The Role of CLIL in Learning About TESOL: Reflections from an Australian Master of TESOL Course. 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_8

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