(Net)Working CLIL in Portugal

Intelligibility within a Modified CLIL Framework

The paper provides a brief summary of what CLIL is and why it is regarded as a mainstream pedagogical approach today. The paper’s aim is to state the significance of language within Zydatiß’ modified version of 4Cs framework of CLIL and to recommend the re-modified 4Cs framework of CLIL. The paper further stresses the importance of pronunciation for communication focusing on intelligibility as ...

Supporting Active Learning in CLIL through Collaborative Search

In CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) the context is to explicitly teach a subject through a foreign or second language but also implicitly to teach a language through a subject; adding the activity of social networking is part of making the context, and hence language learning, real. In this paper we describe the learning design and infrastructure of a CLIL seminar for trainee tea...

Multimodal Resources in Students’ Explanations in Clil Interaction

In recent years, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has received much attention in linguistics and pedagogy. Based on a single case analysis, it will be shown how a detailed sequential analysis of video-recordings of naturally occurring classroom interaction enables us to understand how an explanation can be accomplished collaboratively by participants in a specific language-learni...

Assessment of water quality due to Wolfram mining in Portugal

Water has an important role in creating pollution problems in the mining regimes influencing the surrounding surface environment. The purpose of this study is to make an assessment of groundwater quality in an underground mine site in Portugal with a view of determining the pollution potential of groundwater. In the corresponding surface area of this underground mine, intersec...

The Revolution in Portugal