Content and Language Integration in Cambodia’s Higher Education: A Study of Introduction to ASEAN Course

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Thursday 9:50 am Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Preparing for Linguistic Diversity and Integrating Content and Language in Bi-/Multilingual Classrooms (Table 13)

Abstract

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a European bilingual education model that uses an additional language to enable simultaneous learning of content and language. Adopting CLIL framework, we examined Cambodian university administrators’, teachers’, and students’ perspectives and practices in an Introduction to ASEAN course taught as part of a Bachelor of English program. Our data included classroom observations, semi-structured interviews, and a focus group. Our analyses yielded three themes—integrating disciplinary knowledge into language subject, balancing and supporting content and language learning, and developing academic and subject literacies, and we discussed them in relation to broader concerns of integrating content and language. We provided insights for educators, administrators, and teachers concerning the dynamics between disciplinary knowledge and language mastery.

Authors

• Vikrant Chap, Purdue University

• Wayne E. Wright, Purdue University