World Day of Social Justice

20 th February is the World Day of Social Justiced launched by United Nations. This year is going to be observed for the first time.
I have no doubt that education can also be a way to achieve social justice in our world.

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Marià Villangómez in English?

Why not?

Read here about him

CLIL

CLIL stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning

CLIL fosters teaching English through a non-linguistic area.

CLIL compendium is an interesting web about CLIL:

http://www.clilcompendium.com/clilcompendium.htm


Isabel Pérez's web is one of the best webs about CLIL, with a lot of ideas and resources:

http://www.isabelperez.com/clil.htm


Here you can find lots of interesting DU:

http://www.xtec.cat/crle/pla_le/cataleg.htm


And I strongly recommend the following one:

http://www.xtec.net/%7Emaltemir/


Read the following document about CLIL:

Using languages to learn and learning to use languages by David Marsh


Have a look at Macmillan Publisher's web about CLIL


The following video can be considered as a good example of how we could take advantage of a lot of multimedia material already created to learn English through a non-linguistic area, eg. science:



Check all the ppt presentations of the speeches in Palma, May 2008, in the WEIB site. The Conselleria d'Educació i Cultura de les Illes Balears offered a course on CLIL to teachers starting CLIL projects in the following school year.