Teaching Thinking in Victorian Language Classrooms: Research project starts soon!

How do you support students’ thinking when they learn through another language?

Developing students’ thinking is a crucial part of teaching. This aspect is rather complex when we use other languages to teach, such as teaching Maths in Japanese.

By observing classroom teaching and interviewing teachers about their lessons, this project wants to know “how do teachers foster students’ thinking in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) classes”?

We are calling primary and secondary CLIL teachers across various subjects to participate in this project. Participation is voluntary and if teachers would like to be involved their principal’s approval would be required. Ethics approvals have been obtained for this project to be conducted in Victorian government schools and private schools (primary and secondary).

If you’re interested or would like more information, please contact the PhD researcher Xiaoqing Chen or the project supervisor Prof Russell Cross.

We hope you can join us to explore more about the place of thinking in CLIL!

Project Lab Members

• Xiaoqing Chen (PhD Researcher)
• Prof Russell Cross (Project Primary Supervisor)
• A/Prof Yvette Slaughter (Project Co-Supervisor)
• Dr Shu Ohki (Project Co-Supervisor)