A list of links to websites that will help you understand more about what CLIL is and the different ways it is being adopted in countries across the world. These websites give details on how you can get involved in CLIL and the resources and training courses that are available.

Links provide access to:

General information websites / PDF and articles / Training / Testing / Newspapers


General information websites

http://c4lpt.co.uk
This is the website for the Centre for Learning and Performance Technologies, run by online learning guru Jane Hart. The site keeps track of learning trends, technologies and tools in order to help other learning professionals understand them and implement them successfully in the classroom. There is a useful LearnTech News section, as well as a range of free resources including useful directories and lists of essential learning tools for the technologically-savvy teacher.

www.wordreference.com
Word Reference is a free online translation dictionary.

Fact World (www.factworld.info) is a forum that supports content and language integrated learning and contains links to country reports, useful sites and contact details of key people in participating countries. There is also an e-group for this network at: www.yahoogroups.com/factworld

www.scienceacross.org
Current registration is for free-lifetime membership for the school. Promotes a participative attitude among the teachers' community.

www.tieclil.org/
The TIE-CLIL project (funded through Socrates - Lingua Action A) promotes plurilingualism through the introduction of Content and Language Integrated Learning in five different EU languages (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish). The major aim of TIE-CLIL is to provide pre and in-service development programmes in CLIL for language teachers and subject teachers through building on existing knowledge of this field, to provide state-of-the-art understanding of theory and practice.

www.eu-bluecard.com
Eu-bluecard is an information network on living and working in Europe. Among other things, the network provides information on how to apply for a study VISA. 

http://ec.europa.eu/education/study-in-europe/
Although not specifially related to CLIL, this site contains lots of useful information on education in Europe including scholarships costs, country profiles and how to plan your studies.

http://www.schengenvisainfo.com/eu-countries/
This site provides a list of EU states with detailed information about each country.

http://www.clil-axis.net/
This CLIL-AXIS toolkit presents options for adapting methods, models and practices to enhance the development of key competences for the new reality of working life.  It provides insight into innovation and good practice on the integration of content, communication and culture in the world of education and work. 

The National Geographic website is a great place for all things to do with the planet:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

The Association for Science Education (www.ase.org.uk) in the UK has some wonderful resources on it.  Go to (www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/elibrary) for 6 Science Year CDs with links to thousands of pages of materials, software, drama, video and more and also go to the UPD8 link for science lessons based on the latest news stories. 

The UK National Curriculum website is a useful place to find information about the aims and objectives of curriculum content teaching with links to places to find resources, plans and resources produced by students themselves:
www.gov.uk/government/collections/national-curriculum

http://www.visualgeography.com
User-generated visual geography content

http://worldwidescience.org/
Creating and informing a global science community

PDFs and Articles

David Graddol has written two important papers on language learning around the world which have a clear link to CLIL:

http://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/publications/future-english

http://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/publications/english-next

Content and Language Integrated Learning - England, Wales and Northern Ireland. National description 2004/2005: https://www.nfer.ac.uk/nfer/index.cfm?9B225E51-C29E-AD4D-0ADC-75BABB6A5F03

Content and Language Integrated Learning at School in Europe:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/europe/our-work-in-europe/content-and-language-integrated-learning-clil

Using Languages to learn and learning to use languages, by David Marsh:
http://archive.ecml.at/mtp2/CLILmatrix/pdf/1UK.pdf

CLIL / Emile report; the European dimension, Actions, Trends and Foresight potential:
http://clil-cd.ecml.at/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=ekwp4udVLfQ%3D&tabid=947&language=en-GB

Learning English or learning in English: will we have a choice? A debate about global education and the role of English as the language of instruction. http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2005/apr/20/guardianweekly.guardianweekly1

Training

The Norwich Institute for Language Education
Offers courses in integrating content and language and bilingual education.This includes the MA CLIL Module as well as summer refresher courses for teachers and course throughout the year.
www.nile-elt.com

Pilgrims
Offer courses in English for Teaching Other Subjects Through English
www.pilgrims.co.uk 

The Goethe University Frankfurt
Certified course for teachers in bilingual education
http://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/

University of Edinburgh
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/english-language-teaching

Paedagogische Hochschule Niederoestereich (University of Education in Lower Austria)
MA in Content and Language Integrated Learning
http://www.ph-noe.ac.at/

Coventry University
English & TEFL BA
http://www.coventry.ac.uk/course-structure/2015/faculty-of-business-environment-and-society/undergraduate/english-and-teaching-english-as-a-foreign-language-tefl-ba-hons/?theme=main

Southampton University
www.soton.ac.uk

Anglia Ruskin University
English Language Teaching and English as a Foreign Language BA
http://www.anglia.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/english-language-and-english-language-teaching

The University of Buckingham
BA English Studies for Teaching (EFL)
http://www.buckingham.ac.uk/humanities/ba/englishstudiesforteaching

The University of Essex
English Language Teaching
http://www.essex.ac.uk/langling/ug/elt/default.aspx

University of Greenwich
English Language and English Language Teaching BA
http://www.gre.ac.uk/courses/ug/lang/qq31

Roehampton University
Language and Linguistics (TESOL modules)
http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/undergraduate-courses/english-language-and-linguistics/index.html

Glasgow University
English as a Foreign Language Unit
http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/languagecentre/

The University of Derby
MA Education: Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
http://derby.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/education-english-ma/

Testing

TKT: Content and Language Integrated Learningis a new optional module of the Cambridge ESOL Teaching Knowledge Test (TKT). It tests a candidate's knowledge of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and the practice of planning, teaching and assessing curriculum subjects taught in English.
http://www.cambridgeenglish.org/teaching-english/teaching-qualifications/tkt/test-modules/

Newspapers

www.newser.com
Face it: there's too much news. That's the message from this online news service which distils the day's most covered and most talked-about stories from the 100 top news sources and edits them into short, crisp summaries. Useful for bringing news and current events into the CLIL classroom. 

British newspapers
The Times newspaper
www.the-times.co.uk

The Independent
www.independent.co.uk

The Daily Telegraph
www.telegraph.co.uk

The Guardian
www.guardian.co.uk
The Guardian Weekly

www.guardianweekly.co.uk
The Weekly Telegraph (Int.)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/

American newspapers
USAToday
www.usatoday.com

Time magazine
www.time.com or www.time.com/europe

To keep up-to-date with world news in English:
BBC world news
www.bbcworld.com
CNN news
www.cnn.com

NBC news
www.NBC.com