32.1185, Confs: Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Lang Acq/Online

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Subject: 32.1185, Confs: Cog Sci, Gen Ling, Lang Acq/Online

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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2021 15:37:02
From: Jennifer Hill [tesol.valdadige.etschtal at gmail.com]
Subject: Shaping the Future with iCLIL - David Marsh (Finland)

 
Shaping the Future with iCLIL - David Marsh (Finland) 

Date: 14-May-2021 - 14-May-2021 
Location: Zoom, Finland 
Contact: Jennifer Hill 
Contact Email: tesol.valdadige.etschtal at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: https://davidmarsh.education 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

The scientific evidence-base on languages, mind and brain has expanded in the
last decade. New research is of importance for English language teaching and
CLIL. This presentation describes how this research continues to strengthen
the position of CLIL as a signature pedagogy, and how future trends are
focusing on creative forms of integrating language and content.

The research reveals that people who use more than one language have enhanced
cognitive functioning when compared to monolinguals. It reveals six
significant advantage clusters for people who can think, to a greater or
lesser extent, in more than one language. It indicates why successful language
learning depends on educational practices that combine opportunities to learn
language as a subject, and to learn content through the language. It also
further strengthens the argument that learning a language solely as an object
of study can no longer be justified in mainstream education.

Benefits are reported even when a learner starts to use an additional language
for thinking and learning. These benefits may be physiological, neurological,
and psychological. They are significant in understanding the relationship
between fluid and crystallized intelligence, and systems thinking which is an
essential capacity for developing global competences.
The implications for arguing that bilingual education, even small-scale, is
superior to monolingual education are strong, persuasive, and increasingly
supported by science. Opportunities for realizing advantages are now surfacing
in leading edge schools through curricular integration such as the combination
of Phenomenon-based Learning & CLIL and learning through purpose-designed
multimedia CLIL AR/VR resources.

This talk will be the Keynote at the Sixth Symposium on CLIL in the Adige
Valley. Please REGISTER for the event by Friday, 7 May 2021 using the
following link: https://forms.gle/kiwc1tUiW5AEvpHM7. Instructions on how to
join the event will be sent to participants by email several hours prior to
the event.

David Marsh PhD FRSA has contributed to Finnish educational innovation over
three decades. He has experience of tasks in in 50+ countries, contributed to
175 publications, and received 5 degrees from the United Kingdom, Finland and
Spain. He co-launched Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) under
the auspices of the European Commission in the early 1990s. In 2020 he
co-produced The Bilingual Advantage: The Impact of Language Learning on Mind
and Brain. During 2021 he is developing competence-based English language
learning resources that combine CLIL with transversals across the curriculum.
These are being used to raise English language learning standards in
historically low-attainment contexts. His current work-in-progress is The
Children of Cyberspace: Towards a New Understanding, due for publication in
2022.
 






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