A Deeper Learning Companion for CLIL
Putting Pluriliteracies into Practice

Offers ready-made, theory-driven deeper-learning materials across subjects to show how to put a pluriliteracies approach into practice.

Do Coyle (Edited by), Oliver Meyer (Edited by), Susanne Staschen-Dielmann (Edited by)

9781316517284, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 23 February 2023

308 pages
25.2 x 19.3 x 2 cm, 0.75 kg

If education is to prepare learners for lifelong learning, there needs to be a shift towards deeper learning: a focus on transferable knowledge and problem-solving skills alongside the development of a positive or growth mind-set. Deeper learning is inextricably linked with CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) – a revolutionary teaching approach where students study subjects in a different language. Designed as a companion to the influential volume Beyond CLIL, this highly practical book offers step-by-step instruction for designing and implementing innovative tasks and materials for pluriliteracies development. It contains annotated case studies of deeper learning lesson plans across a wide range of school subjects, using an innovative and proven template, to help teachers explore the potential of deeper learning inside their own classrooms. Theoretically grounded, this book offers a roadmap for schools, ranging from exploratory first steps, to transdisciplinary projects, to whole school moves for curriculum development and transformative pedagogies.

Part I. Key Ideas and Principles of Pluriliteracies Teaching for Deeper Learning: 1. Exploring the mechanics of deeper learning
2. Exploring the drivers of deeper learning
3. Exploring progression in deeper learning
4. Designing deeper learning episodes
Part II: Deeper Learning Episodes: First Steps towards Transforming Classrooms: 5. Chemistry: exploring pluriliteracies through a deeper learning episode on redox reaction Teresa Connolly
6. Physics: exploring pluriliteracies through a deeper learning episode on rainbows Klaus Wendt, Andreas Pysik and Johannes Lhotzky
7. Geography: exploring pluriliteracies through a deeper learning episode on global warming Nicole Berg
8. History: exploring pluriliteracies through a deeper learning episode on the German Empire Susanne Staschen-Dielmann
9. Political science: exploring pluriliteracies through a deeper learning episode on electronic waste Susanne Staschen-Dielmann and Saskia Helm
10. Modern languages: exploring pluriliteracies through a deeper learning episode in French literature with younger beginner learners Frederic Taveau
11. Religious education: exploring pluriliteracies through a deeper learning episode on modern-day prophets Stefan Altmeyer and Johannes Kerbeck
12. Music: exploring pluriliteracies through a deeper learning episode on 'The Wellerman' Valerie Krupp
13. Deeper learning mathematics: the case of algebraic questions Susanne Prediger and Anna-Katharina Roos
Conclusion: Moving beyond First Steps: Using PTDL for Whole School Development and Transformation.

Subject Areas: Education [JN], Applied linguistics for ELT [EBAL], Language teaching theory & methods [CJA], Bilingualism & multilingualism [CFDM], Language acquisition [CFDC]