Public Lecture: Phil Ball

We welcome teachers, researchers, and students to attend a public lecture by Phil Ball on the Gakushuin University campus.

Date: 2 February, 2018

Location: Room 200, Building Minami-2 [Google Map in Japanese] [Facebook Event]

Doors open: 17:30

Lecture: 18:00-19:30

Title: CLIL: The 3 Dimensions of Content

Abstract: What is ‘content’, and what is ‘language’? Neither subject nor language teachers would have any problem answering this question with regard to conventional teaching through the mother-tongue, but in CLIL the considerations change. Subject teachers need support in identifying the key language in their learning sequences, so that they can then make it more salient, and language teachers – now showing more interest in what CLIL can do for them - need to consider the nature of 'content' – namely what it is, how it behaves, and how it can be supported methodologically.

This talk will illustrate the notion of the three dimensions of content in CLIL, namely conceptual, procedural and linguistic. This new framework encourages both subject and language teachers to think of their lessons in these three-dimensional terms and to ‘adjust the volume’ of a task according to the demands that it makes. This helps CLIL teachers to prioritise any one of the three dimensions, at any point of a lesson or a sequence.

Biography: Phil Ball is the lead author of Putting CLIL into Practice (2015) from Oxford University Press and has worked with the Federation of Basque Schools, based in San Sebastián in Spain for many years. He is also an avid football fan and has published several works on football in Spain including the first English language history of Real Madrid: White Storm: 100 years of Real Madrid (2002).

Phil Ball on YouTube