CLIL Teacher Training: Lacks and Suggestions from a Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

This systematic literature review aims firstly at highlighting lacks and suggestions and/or good practices in clil teacher training, analysing and crossing the results, obtained from academic repositories; then at contributing to reach an optimal level of training for clil teachers, highlighting good practices as suggestions to fill the lacks. The 39 documents, which describe studies and mostly practices from almost all the European countries, have been obtained by Scopus, Educational Resources Information Centre (eric), ScienceDirect and partially Google Scholar, through the descriptor «clil teacher training» and a post-reading selection of the articles. Their qualitative data provided an exhaustive picture of the comprehensiveness of results, required by the method of systematic reviews. clil results to be a complex approach, involving many aspects which need to be considered. It is primarily perceived to be as engaging for students as demanding for teachers, due to its being learner-centred, with a large use of icts and online tools, as its implementation through a new pedagogy and modern teaching strategies, such as flipped-classroom and task-based. This is the theoretical starting point of the different actions and policies set up in the countries to train teachers for clil. But the results of this review, which draw the characteristics to take into account to train future clil teachers, underline the need of pre-service teacher training at University, hitherto generally disregarded in favour of in-service preparation. Concerning this latter, from the stakeholders in particular it is suggested continued update in clil method and research; further collaboration with colleagues, especially telecollaboration, which can be the answer to the need of clil update and to share good practices in authentic online communities; last but not least, further pedagogical preparation and management of icts, because clil aims to change the traditional schooling.