The Academic Committee of the Master’s Degree in Advanced English Studies is pleased to invite you to the Welcome Session that will take place in Salón de Grados (1st Floor) of the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Media Studies on Tuesday, October 1st 2019, at 4pm.
Opening lecture by María Luisa Pérez Cañado: Enhancing 21st-century skills through bilingual education: Are you ready for the challenge?
Enhancing 21st-century skills through bilingual education: Are you ready for the challenge?
This talk will focus on a current teaching approach which has had an exponential uptake in Europe and is increasingly being embraced in Latin America and Asia: CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). After framing the topic against the backdrop of the current changes affecting general language and specific bilingual education, it will employ empirical evidence from the latest investigations to showcase the chief linguistic, cognitive, competency-based, methodological, and socioeconomic advantages CLIL has to enhance 21st-century skills in the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It will then expound on the chief competencies which research has again evinced teachers need in order to step up successfully to the bilingual challenge. Practical examples, instruments, and projects will be used to equip participants to address and conquer each of these challenges. It will conclude by discussing the broader take-aways and pedagogical implications which these findings have for the different stakeholders and, particularly, for this Master’s students.
Biodata: Dr. María Luisa Pérez Cañado is Full Professor at the Department of English Philology of the University of Jáen, Spain, where she is also Vicedean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education. Her research interests are in Applied Linguistics, bilingual education, and new technologies in language teaching. Her work has appeared in over 100 scholarly journals and edited volumes and she is also author or editor of 15 books on the interface of second language acquisition and second language teaching, and editor or member of the editorial board of 18 international journals. María Luisa has given more than 140 lectures and talks in Belgium, Poland, Germany, Portugal, Ireland, England, Mexico, Brazil, Peru, China, The United States, and all over Spain. She is currently coordinating the first intercollegiate MA degree on bilingual education and CLIL in Spain, as well as European, national, and regional projects on attention to diversity in CLIL. She has also been granted the Ben Massey Award for the quality of her scholarly contributions regarding issues that make a difference in higher education.
