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CLIL Milestones
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Received support from the European Commission

Development of higher education research network 2003 CLIL Consortium
Progress report on European CLIL 2002 CLIL/EMILE – The European Dimension Actions, Trends and Foresight Potential (European Commission, DG EAC)
Professional Development course in 5 languages (DE, FR, EN, ES, IT) TIE-CLIL (www.tieclil.org)
Development of secondary school quality instruments Dutch CLIL quality assurance system launched
Development of secondary, vocational, higher education quality instrument LangCOM – Finnish CLIL quality assurance system launched
Research on CLIL in higher education The International University Curriculum – challenges in English-medium engineering education (Phd, University of Delft, Netherlands)
availability of a comprehensive typology of European CLIL 2001 European Year of Languages, CLIL Compendium launched
trans-national professional development programmes for vocational and professional
education

Initial teacher education programme

2000 Integrating Competencies for Working Life launched

 

BILD materials published

AILA Special Interest Group established 

 

trans-national professional development programmes for primary and secondary
education
1999 Learning with Languages launched,
CLIL Consortium founded,
CLIL Initiatives for the Millennium published

Conference, Brussels The Multilingual Challenge

development needs for 2000-2010
formalized
1998 CEILINK Think Tank convened, Future Scenarios in Content and Language Integrated Learning published, Teaching with Foreign
European literature survey published ‘Vreemde taal als instructietaal’ (Phd, University of Antwerp, Belgium)
Initial bilingual education programme launched The Netherlands & Finland
experience in primary and secondary education surveyed 1997 InterTalk released, European Centre for Modern Languages Workshop on CLIL in Vocational and Professional Education,
Aspects of Implementing CLIL published
European network established 1996 European Networks in Bilingual Education symposium convened, EuroCLIC Network founded, the term Content and Language
Integrated Learning introduced, Teaching Content through a Foreign Language published,
Council of Europe Workshop 12B "Learning and Teaching Non-language Subjects through
a Foreign Language"

Initial bilingual education programmes launched Germany & UK 

European-based experiences consolidated 1995 Increased availability of research and development publications
pan-European information gathering on depth, scope and scale of 'teaching and learning through foreign languages' 1994 European Commission White Paper on education and training published
information gathering on minority and majority language learning needs within Europe 1993 European Models of Bilingual Education published, Council of Europe Workshop 12A "Language Learning for European Citizenship"
interest in bilingual education
methodologies increased through Council of Europe activities
1992 Needs surveys and prototypes for professional development produced

In-service teacher development programmes launched Finland

interest shown within Europe towards worldwide examples of bilingual education 1991 Increasing frequency of articles published on research and practice
interest in bilingual education
methodologies increases due to European socio-economic integration, and globalization
1990 Lingua (DG XXII) launched