CLIL and Beyond: Pluriliteracies for Deeper Learning through language

As a school leader, you want students to do more than memorise content. You want them to understand concepts deeply, express their thinking clearly, and thrive in multilingual learning environments. Yet in many classrooms, linguistic barriers, limited academic language, and a focus on factual recall prevent students from reaching their full potential.

This 2-day CLIL & Pluriliteracies conference gives your teachers the tools to change that. It provides a coherent, research-based framework that helps students learn content and language simultaneously while developing the cognitive, communicative, and reflective skills required for deep learning.

Designed for primary and secondary teachers across subjects, this conference offers practical strategies that immediately strengthen instruction, elevate student outcomes, and create more inclusive, language-aware classrooms.

FOR YOUR SCHOOL, THE BENEFITS ARE SIGNIFICANT AND LASTING

1. Stronger learning across subjects and languages

Your teachers learn how to use CLIL and the 4Cs to make content accessible even when students lack the required language. This improves comprehension, reduces frustration, and ensures all students — including EAL and multilingual learners — can access the curriculum.

2. Deeper conceptual understanding

Through the Pluriliteracies framework, your teachers learn to move beyond teaching facts toward “learning through understanding.” Students learn to connect concepts, co-construct meaning, and transfer knowledge, skills that directly improve assessment results.

3. Higher-quality academic communication

Your teachers explore disciplinary genres, communication modes, and language functions so students can produce clearer explanations, arguments, commentaries, lab reports, and more. This strengthens written and oral expression across the school.

4. Inclusive and student-centred classrooms

The conference equips your teachers with strategies to scaffold language, support hesitant learners, create low-anxiety environments, and promote learner agency. This is essential for diverse, mixed-ability, and multilingual settings.

5. A shared pedagogical language across the school

CLIL and Pluriliteracies give your departments a common framework for planning, instruction, and assessment. This builds consistency, strengthens curriculum alignment, and enhances whole-school teaching quality.

6. A more reflective, engaged student mindset

Your teachers learn how to make thinking and metacognition visible, helping students express their understanding with clarity and confidence, regardless of their language level.

PROGRAMME OVERVIEW

DAY 1 — CLIL & Pluriliteracies: Co-Constructing Knowledge

• CLIL definition & the 4Cs framework

• What is Pluriliteracy?

• Language OF learning

• Strategies for students who lack the language of instruction

• Making procedures explicit

• How concepts lead to deep understanding

• Teaching strategies that prioritise understanding over memorisation

DAY 2 — Pluriliteracies: Demonstrating Understanding & Learner Mindset

• Language FOR learning

• Choosing the right style, genre, and communication mode

• Characteristics of disciplinary genres

• Language functions and their purposes

• Language THROUGH learning

• Creating low-anxiety learning environments

• Deep learning through relationships and reflection

• Enhancing language for mastery

• Call to Action, Feedback & Q&A

Audience: Primary and/or secondary teachers

Duration: 2 full days

Dates:  upon  request
Certification: Certificate of Mastery