Language

Social-Semiotic and Functional Approaches to Lang and Content Integration in Biling/Multiling Educ



CARLA UMN

For the full description, please see the Conference website:
http://carla.umn.edu/conferences/immersion2016/invited_symposia.html

This symposium brings together researchers from around the world who use Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) to investigate content and language integration in educational contexts where the learning/teaching of academic content is combined with the use and learning of an L2 as a substantial part of the curriculum.

Introduction
Presenters:
Ana Llinares & Tom Morton

Exploring content and language co-construction in CLIL with semantic waves
Presenters:
Angel Lin and Yuen Yi Lo – The University of Hong Kong

Reconceptualizing the structures underlying academic language learning in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Classrooms
Presenter:
Thomas Somers – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Combining systemic functional linguistics and cognitive discourse functions in analysing upper primary learners’ expression of science and history content in L2 English
Presenters:
Ana Llinares, Natalia Evnitskaya, Rachel Whittaker – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Tom Morton, Birkbeck – University of London

Expressing ‘Voice’ in a Foreign Language Across Content-Subject Tasks
Presenters:
Christiane Dalton-Puffer – Universität Wien
Ana Llinares – Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Bilingual Academic Language Development: Language Patterns Across Spanish and English School Genres
Presenters:
Andrés Ramirez & Sabrina Sembiante – Florida Atlantic University
Luciana de Oliveira – University of Miami .