Reviews
As part of our quest to provide the best information for CLIL teachers we will publish reviews written by teachers of resources available for CLIL teaching and training.
Found a good book packed full of resources? Read an inspiring article on teaching CLIL? Discovered a great website?
Send us your review and we will publish the best ones to the site and send you a Macmillan School Dictionary.
Inside Reviews
Review: Uncovering CLIL
Gilberto Terente reviews Uncovering CLIL, commenting on how it helps us to look at the past, present and future challenges of CLIL. He concludes that 'a new CLIL teacher after reading this book is ready to be a good CLIL teacher!'
Review: Uncovering CLIL, onestopclil, Macmillan Vocabulary Practice Series – Science
its-teachers, an online magazine for English Language teachers, has reviewed onestopclil, Uncovering CLIL and Macmillan Vocabulary Practice Series – Science.
Review: Teaching Mathematics to English Language Learners
Keith Kelly reviews this new book from Routledge aimed at CLIL teachers teaching mathematics through the medium of English and recommends it as a 'must-read'.
Review of Uncovering CLIL on www.tefl.net
'Rich in content... easy to navigate... a very useful resource to have...' Primary teacher Lara Promnitz-Hayashi has given Uncovering CLIL a glowing review on TEFL.net, a free, independent resource site for all involved in Teaching English as a Foreign or Second Language.
Review: ‘Foreign Language Competence in Content and Language Integrated Courses’
Sarah McKeown reviews David Lasagabaster’s article (published in the Open Access Applied Linguistics Journal) on the effectiveness of English language CLIL in the Basque Country and examines the range of issues it raises.
Review: www.playdecide.org
Stefka Kitanova 'decides' whether the conversation games on this resource website are useful tools for encouraging structured debate in the science CLIL classroom.
Review: Citizenship Studies in Spain
With 'Citizen Studies' now a compulsory subject in Spain, teacher trainer and curriculum designer Lui García Gurrutxaga reviews a new course-book for teaching the subject through English.
Review: Teaching Other Subjects Through English
Is this book from Oxford University Press appropriate for a wide range of age groups and reading levels? Does it offer practical, applicable activities? Find out in Stefka Kitanova's assessment of the book.
Review: Macmillan Vocabulary Practice Series: Science by Keith Kelly
Egbert Weisheit reviews the first in Macmillan's Vocabulary Practice series which focuses on the content vocabulary of secondary science topics.
Review: Science Across the World: www.scienceacross.org
Dr Lida Schoen reviews Science Across the World, the largest global schools network for students 10-16.