Multilingual Education under Scrutiny

This monograph provides a comprehensive insight into the overriding hot topics regarding the implementation of bilingual education type CLIL (content and language integrated learning) that have been recently spotlighted by researchers and different stakeholders, including families and students. The authors analyse the multiple faces of CLIL as a global and ecological phenomenon and examine the potential of CLIL to guarantee effective language learning, along with preservation of adequate levels of content acquisition and satisfactory development of the mother tongue. The role of pre-service and in-service teacher training in unfolding CLIL is scrutinized, among other burning issues such as egalitarianism and sustainability of the approach.

Esther Nieto Moreno de Diezmas is a senior lecturer and researcher of the Department of Modern Languages in the Faculty of Education of the University of Castilla-La Mancha (Spain). Her main research interests are bi- and multilingual education, CLIL and Family Language Policy. She has extensively published her investigations in indexed scientific journals and reputed publishing houses and has been invited as a visiting scholar in prestigious universities, such as Queen University Belfast and the Universities of Cardiff, Southampton, Lisbon, Milan and Bologna, among others.

Magdalena Custodio Espinar　teaches and researches in CLIL and EFL in the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences at Universidad Pontificia de Comillas (Spain). Her research interests include teacher training, didactic programming, CLIL, FLT, ELT and co-teaching.