Psychological Experience of Integrating Content and Language

Kyle Read Talbot is a language teacher and researcher in Applied Linguistics. His current research and thinking interests include the psychology of language learning and teaching, bilingual and multilingual education, and applied complexity science.  Marie-Theres Gruber works at the Private University College of Teacher Education Graz (KPH Graz). Her teaching and research interests are early foreign language learning, lesson planning and CLIL as well as progressive pedagogies (Jenaplan) and diversity management. She supports schools and individual teachers in initial and implementation phases of primary CLIL instruction and has been involved in different CLIL projects and CLIL in German material development for the Austrian language competence centre (ÖSZ).Rieko Nishida is Associate Professor at Osaka University, Japan. Her research interests include educational psychology of second language learning in the Japanese context. She is especially interested in the influence of motivation and other psychological factors in language learning and also the effects of CLIL among university English learners in Japan.

This outstanding volume focusing on the psychologies of teachers and learners is a timely addition to the study of the integration of content and language. The illuminating insights in this collection highlight the importance of psychological experiences and have far-reaching implications for research, professional development and teachers’ practice.

• Tables and FiguresExternal ReviewersAbbreviationsContributorsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1. Kyle Read Talbot and Marie-Theres Gruber: IntroductionChapter 2. Sotiria Pappa: Identity and Emotions in Teaching CLIL: The Case of Primary School Teachers in FinlandChapter 3. Jun Jin, Kyle Read Talbot and Sarah Mercer: EMI Teacher Identity, Language Use and Reported Behaviours in Austrian Higher EducationChapter 4. Anssi Roiha and Katja Mäntylä: CLIL as a Vehicle for a Positive English Self-concept: An Analysis of One Former Student’s Life CourseChapter 5. Nihat Polat and Laura Mahalingappa : Teacher Cognition about Challenges and Opportunities of Integrative Language and Content Teaching: The SIOP ExampleChapter 6. Christiane Dalton-Puffer, Julia Hüttner and Ute Smit: From Voluntary to Obligatory CLIL in Upper Secondary Technical Colleges: Teacher and Student Voices from a Diverse LandscapeChapter 7. Ruth Milla and María del Pilar García Mayo: Teachers’ and Learners’ Beliefs about Corrective Feedback Compared with Teachers' Practices in CLIL and EFLChapter 8. Emma Dafouz: ‘So, after a Week, I Became a Teacher of English': Physics Lecturers’ Beliefs on the Integration of Content and Language in English-Medium Higher EducationChapter 9. Kyle Read Talbot, Marie-Theres Gruber, Anita Lämmerer, Nicole Hofstadler and Sarah Mercer: Comparatively Speaking: CLIL/EMI Teacher Well-being at the Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Levels in AustriaChapter 10. Antonio Jimenez-Munoz: ‘It Wasn’t My Fault’: Lecturers’ Notes to Former Selves after Five Years of EMI ServiceChapter 11. Erwin M. Gierlinger: L2 Confidence in CLIL Teaching: A Tale of Two TeachersChapter 12. Nia Mererid Parry and Enlli Môn Thomas: Addressing Teacher Confidence as a Barrier to Bilingual Classroom Transmission Practices in WalesChapter 13. Victor Arshad and Roy Lyster: Professional Development in Action: Teachers’ Experiences in Learning to Bridge Language and ContentChapter 14. Rieko Nishida: A Longitudinal Study of Japanese Tertiary Students’ Motivation, Perceived Communication Competency and Classroom Dynamics on Soft-CLILChapter 15. Darío Luis Banegas and Richard Pinner: Motivations and Synergy on a Sociolinguistics Module in Language Teacher Education in ArgentinaChapter 16. Kyle Read Talbot and Marie-Theres Gruber: Conclusion: Challenges, Opportunities, Implications and Future DirectionsIndex