Book Review “The Tkt Course Clil Module”

Abstract

The aim of this book is to provide teachers and trainee teachers with a guide on how best to improve teaching knowledge through an additional module, tagged: CLIL – Content and Language Integrated Learning. The volume is particularly relevant to both teachers who teach different curricular subjects through the medium of English and English language teachers who use curriculum content in their teaching. The book is centrally focused on the fact that Teaching Knowledge Test TKT and Content and Language Integrated Learning CLIL, play a significant role in helping both the trainer and students to achieve success in short term learning outcomes. As a module for development of trainers, the course covers four key areas:

(i)               Knowledge and principles of CLIL

(ii)             Lesson preparation

(iii)           Lesson delivery, and

(iv)            Assessment

The units underscore the usefulness of the TKT: CLIL theory and practice to all teachers and learners working with English as an additional language – the challenges of the bridge period   between L1 and L2 and in other circumstances where English is used for specific purposes.

Divided into two parts of seventeen units, the book begins with an introduction that explains both the content and the target of TKT: CLIL. As a preamble to the module, the introduction further presents objectives and most specifically the theoretical concepts guiding the entire course – ‘how each unit is organized and how it can be used’. To achieve this, the author prescribes an extensive use of TKT: CLIL glossary not contained in the book though essential to ELT – English Language Teaching.