Project-Based Language Learning and CALL - From Virtual Exchange to Social Justice - Michael Thomas
7. Project-Based Learning for Content and Language Integrated Learning and Pluriliteracies: Some Examples from Italian Schools
Project-Based Language Learning and CALL - From Virtual Exchange to Social Justice - Michael Thomas
Letizia Cinganotto [+]
National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research), Rome
Letizia Cinganotto is a researcher at INDIRE (National Institute for Documentation, Innovation and Educational Research) in Rome, Italy. She holds a BA in foreign languages, MAs ELT, eLearning and multimedia learning, and a PhD in synchronic, diachronic and applied linguistics. She is a member of different working groups and scientific committees on CLIL and languages, both at national and international level. Her main research areas are language learning and teaching, CLIL, technology-enhanced learning, school innovation and teacher training. She is a member of the ECML
“pluriliteracies” consultancy team.
Description
Starting from an overview of Content and Integrated Language Learning (CLIL), digital technologies and ‘pluriliteracies’, this chapter highlights the potential of the project-based CLIL approach. The second part of the chapter explores several projects involving a network of Italian schools that incorporate humanistic and/or scientific subjects and CLIL.