Assessing CLIL: a multidisciplinary approach

ABSTRACT

Introduction of the Special Issue ‘Assessing CLIL: A multidisciplinary approach’.

KEYWORDS:

• Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
• multidisciplinary
• Belgium
• cognitive
• linguistic
• socio-affective

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 The Assessing CLIL-project was supported by a Concerted Research Action Grant (grant number ARC 14/19-061) from the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) and the Université de Namur (UNamur), awarded to Philippe Hiligsmann (spokesperson; UCLouvain), Benoît Galand (UCLouvain), Laurence Mettewie (UNamur), Fanny Meunier (UCLouvain), Arnaud Szmalec (UCLouvain) and Kristel Van Goethem (UCLouvain). Luk Van Mensel (UNamur) was the postdoctoral coordinator of the project, and Amélie Bulon (UCLouvain), Audrey De Smet (UCLouvain), Isa Hendrikx (UCLouvain) and Morgane Simonis (UCLouvain) were the PhD students involved. At the time of writing, three PhD dissertations have been successfully defended (Bulon 2019; Hendrikx 2019; Simonis 2019). Updates on future publications can be found on these websites: https://uclouvain.be/en/research-institutes/ilc/publications-0-1.html and https://www.researchgate.net/project/Assessing-Content-and-Language-Integrated-Learning-CLIL-Linguistic-cognitive-and-educational-perspectives

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by Concerted Research Action Grant (UCLouvain - UNamur): [Grant Number ARC 14/19-061].

Notes on contributors

Luk Van Mensel

Luk Van Mensel is a postdoctoral researcher at the NaLTT Institute (Université de Namur, Belgium) and a guest lecturer at KU Leuven (Belgium). He has published on a variety of subjects in SLA and sociolinguistics, and was the coordinator of the research project ‘Assessing Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): Linguistic, cognitive and educational perspectives’.

Philippe Hiligsmann

Philippe Hiligsmann is full professor of Dutch language and linguistics at the UCLouvain (Belgium). His research focuses on contrastive linguistics (Dutch-French) and on second language acquisition (in particular Dutch by French-speaking learners).