Thematic-Pattern-Based “Concept + Language Mapping” (CLM): Content and Language Integration in a Transdisciplinary Perspective (Routledge Series in ... Integrated Teaching & Plurilingual Education)

This book explores the issue of “integration” in content and language integrated learning (CLIL), and addresses the need for effective content and language integration by proposing the thematic-pattern-based “Concept+Language Mapping” (CLM) approach. Peichang He explores effective integration of content and language learning during the instruction of content subjects using students’ additional language as the medium of instruction.The volume introduces the contextual background of a large-scale school-university collaboration CLIL research project and builds the conceptual framework of a thematic-pattern-based CLM pedagogy by drawing on the language-based theory of learning (Halliday, 1993), the construct of thematic patterns (Lemke, 1990), and the recent development of genre-based pedagogy (Lin, 2016; Rose & Martin, 2012).The research probes the design of thematic-pattern-based CLM teaching resources and examines the impact of the CLM pedagogy on students’ development of language and