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September 2006: CLIL Expert meeting in the Hague

Team work on the CLIL Matrix has been finalised. This internet based awareness raising tool is due to be completed in November 2006. Associated with this is the publication of "Windows on CLIL - Perspectives on Content and Language Integrated Learning in Europe". Downloadable from January 2007 onwards, these expert contributions of CLIL across the ECML member states will be published by the European Platform for Dutch Education in December 2006.

November 2005: CLIL Matrix Workshop

The central workshop of the CLIL project took place on the 3-5 November in Graz, Austria.This ECML Workshop focused on describing good practice in the educational approach termed Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL). The workshop identified and considered essential conditions and competencies required so that quality can be achieved and sustained.

Full details can be found in the Central Workshop 6/2005 report, which can be downloaded in pdf format in the Materials section.

April 2005: Project team meeting

CLIL Quality: Building the Matrix
The full CQM team have advanced development of the CLIL Matrix. At the ECML meeting of 15-16 April some 50 major variables were examined and these have been reduced to a core of 16 quality factors. These relate to content, language, integration and learning. These will feature in the basic matrix and be linked to a quality cross-check list. This will enable users of this innovative educational methodology to use this simple tool to establish the extent to which they are controlling quality variables.

Recent interviews introducing CLIL can be found on
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/download/radio/innovations/innovations.shtml
Please go to Programmes 3 and 4.
Extracts from the film InterTalk will shortly be available on DVD .

The CLIL Quality Matrix: CQM
CLIL Quality: Linking to the European Union and Associated Countries
Some members of The CLIL Quality Matrix (CQM) Team were instrumental in the planning and presentation of the Luxembourg EU Presidency conference on Plurilingual Education & The Changing European Classroom opened by Mady Delvaux-Stehres, Minister for National Education and Professional Training and President of the Education Council of the European Union, and Ján Figel, European Commissioner responsible for Education, Training, Culture and Plurilingualism.

Faithful to the topic chosen by the Luxembourg Presidency for the education sector ("Let's learn more languages to speak the same language"), the symposium brought together 230 participants from over 32 countries to exchange views on plurilingualism and teaching methods for language apprenticeships within a Europe in full expansion.

Both the Council of Europe's Language Policy Division and ECML were represented at this landmark conference on CLIL. The CLIL Quality Matrix was formally introduced during an opening plenary session. Interest in both CLIL, and quality factors, was particularly significant in the event.

CLIL Quality: Going Global
The CQM Team was represented at a special international debate involving some 600 participants on 8 April at the Welsh Government Assembly Hall, Cardiff, UK. Organised by the international media (The Guardian Weekly, in association with Macmillan Education), a set of experts examined the global uptake of CLIL with major focus on quality issues.
Information about the event, including new CLIL articles published in the Guardian Weekly can be found at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianweekly/story/0,12674,1409310,00.html