CLIL Voices Podcast – CLIL Voices

Encouraging student autonomy in a CLIL setting at university level

Neale Cunningham and Chantal Hemmi At Tokyo Woman’s Christian University (TWCU), we are on our journey to implementing a student-led autonomous learning activity. In 2024, a new programme for English centred around vocabulary building and extensive reading was launched, followed by the introduction of a second-year programme focusing on the learning of content and language in the humanities and social sciences. Our endeavour at the LARECE Learning Commons (LLC) at TWCU is to implement and sustain a programme called Consultation and Advising (C&A), an extracurricular activity whereby the students bring in their own questions and challenges in their learning of content and language. The system we established is that students… 続きを読む Encouraging student autonomy in a CLIL setting at university level

Episode 2: Josh Grisdale

Welcome back to CLIL Voices! A podcast aimed at bringing together different voices from across the world of CLIL in dialogue. In this episode we bring you a conversation with Josh Grisdale. Josh is founder of Accessible Japan, a website that provides accessibility information in English for people visiting Japan. Josh has cerebral palsy, is quadriplegic, and has used a wheelchair since the age of three. Josh was interviewed by Matt in 2019, with Matt, as a language teacher, connecting with Josh with the aim of developing knowledge and accurate lesson materials about accessible tourism. A video highlighting Josh’s important work can be viewed here. Listen to the episode here: https://rss.com/podcasts/clilvoices/850314/ CLIL Voices… 続きを読む Episode 2: Josh Grisdale

Episode 1: Darío Banegas

CLIL Voices is a new podcast aimed at bringing together different voices from across the world of CLIL in dialogue. Listen here: https://rss.com/podcasts/clilvoices/533668 This is our inaugural episode, featuring a conversation with Dr Darío Luis Banegas. Darío is a lecturer in language education at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include materials, identity, motivation, teacher education, and curriculum development with regard to CLIL. More information about him can found here. In this conversation, we speak about Darío’s work and his beliefs about CLIL. CLIL Voices is a Sophia University-based project in Japan from the creators of The TEFLology Podcast.