What Can CLIL Learn from Immersion?

Colin Browne
Zürich

Cet article, écrit par un coach en immersion, aborde tout d’abord la question des différences entre un enseignement de type EMILE et un enseignement immersif. Quelles demandes de formation linguistique des enseignants en immersion peuvent être appliquées aux enseignants d’EMILE? Et, plus généralement, comment l’expérience de formation des enseignants en immersion peut-elle être récupérée au profit de la formation des enseignants d’EMILE?

This article, written by an English Immersion Coach, initially addresses the apparent differences between the CLIL and immersion concepts. This is done with a view to determining which findings from his Master’s thesis on the language demands of immersion teaching can be applied to CLIL teacher training. As a result of the language demands on non-native CLIL teachers being arguably greater (due to a focus on form and the teaching of several subjects) than on immersion teachers, the recommendations made to the latter are equally applicable to CLIL teachers.