Who teaches L2 CALP?
All this sounds complex but it’s largely only what we expect learners to do in their L1. Most schools don’t explicitly teach CALP skills in L1; they expect learners to pick them up. If you are learning in L2, however, you normally need to be taught them more explicitly. Who teaches them? L2-medium subject teachers can do it in short bursts within their subject lessons, but they are often not sufficiently aware of them. Language teachers can also teach them in foreign language lessons which are orientated to the CLIL programme. But language teachers are not normally trained to teach L2 CALP and may need to expand their language awareness to do it. Finally, as I mention in 5 below, these skills can transfer from a learner’s L1 CALP and good CLIL programmes aim to facilitate this.4. How good should CLIL learners be at using these skills? It’s obviously important to ask: how well should learners be able to use L2 skills in order to learn a subject? The answer is: it’s difficult to say. But
