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ForewordCLIL Practice: Perspectives from the Field is another useful publication prepared by the CLIL Cascade Network (CCN). It is useful for the practitioner because it gives an interesting overview of CLIL developments from many parts of Europe and of the methodological approaches teachers are experimenting with. It is useful for the theoretician because it provides valuable insights into the functioning of different CLIL initiatives and their implications for both language and content teaching. The book thus is a testimony to the diversity of CLIL in Europe. But the book is also – and I think this is even more important – a testimony to the integrative nature of the CLIL concept. By slightly stretching Gajo’s definition of integration (he writes of the integrative nature of CLIL) one could say that “integration must be seen as a complex interactional and discursive process” which is necessary in order to advance the CLIL idea and to convince others of its pedagogic value. CLIL Practice: Perspectives from the field is part of this interactional and discursive process and continues the dialogue started years ago. Such a continued dialogue is necessary in order to build up and to enrich the complex concept called CLIL and to safeguard its quality. Dieter Wolff |
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