Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is regarded as an innovative or alternative approach to communicative language teaching (CLT). Stakeholders, researchers, and other actors involved in teaching foreign language embrace CLIL in the hope that deficiencies in foreign language learning can be overcome so as to meet new socio-economic needs. However, CLIL is not only about benefits. This article, firstly, outlines some of its challenges and drawback particularly in reference to teachers and teacher development since other difficulties may be rooted in how teachers are prepared to respond to the new issues that CLIL seems to raise. Secondly, it describes pre-and in-service CLIL teacher development opportunities partly based on personal experiences at the University of Warwick as well as other personal experiences of workshops in Argentina. Finally, the article suggests possible ways of incorporating a CLIL understanding in Argentina as an example of an EFL context.

In the last decade, there has been a major interest in content-based instruction (CBI) and content and language integrated learning (CLIL). These are similar approaches which integrate content and foreign/second language learning through various methodologies and models as a result of different implementations around the world. In this paper, I first offer a sociocultural view of CBI-CLIL. Secondly, I define language and content as vital components in CBI-CLIL. Thirdly, I review the origins of CBI and the continuum perspective, and CLIL definitions and models featured in the literature. Fourth, I summarise current aspects around research in programme evaluation. Last, I review the benefits and challenges of this innovative approach so as to encourage critically context-responsive endeavours.

In 2011, we, a group of English as a foreign language teachers at a secondary school in Argentina, decided to investigate our teaching practices through collaborative action research so as to improve our students' learning opportunities and thus revitalise English Language Teaching in our context. We implemented and evaluated the integration of content and language learning in our classrooms through the development of our own materials. The experience revealed a growth in professional development and how our motivation and autonomy influenced our students' motivation and language development. In our attempt to disseminate our experience as a group, this report particularly focuses on the evaluation facets of our CAR project so as to encourage other teachers and teacherresearchers to adopt CAR to improve their own practices.

Argentina seems to favour CLIL (content and language integrated learning) as a language-driven approach in secondary and higher education. In this paper, I investigate curriculum development and lesson planning based on trainees' perceptions and lesson plans submitted to pass a module on Didactics as part of their formal initial English language teacher education. My aim is to compare what a group of trainees does in relation to the notion of CLIL as forward curriculum planning and the frameworks posited in the CLIL literature. My theoretical framework is guided by the concept of didactic transposition applied to CLIL and the literature on CLIL lessons plans drawing on teachers' voices through their plans. In this paper I discuss how language-driven CLIL was envisaged by a group of 47 trainees enrolled in a teacher education course in southern Argentina. Data emerged from a survey and lesson plans aimed at secondary-school learners for whom English was usually taught two hours a week. Results show that language-driven CLIL follows forward design; it focuses more on content than on explicit knowledge of the language, and it is aimed at revising language with older learners.Keywords: language-driven CLIL; didactic transposition; lesson plans; language skills; language teacher education. ResumenLa Argentina tiende a adoptar el enfoque AICLE desde una preponderancia sobre el aprendizaje de otra lengua en la educación secundaria y el nivel superior. En este artículo investigo el desarrollo curricular y la planificación de clases con base en las percepciones y los planes de clases elaborados por un grupo de futuros docentes graduados para el espacio Didáctica como parte de su formación inicial como profesores de inglés. El objetivo es comparar las elaboraciones que este grupo de estudiantes realiza en relación con la noción de AICLE como un currículo lineal y los marcos propuestos en la literatura sobre AICLE. El marco teórico de esta contribución está guiado por el concepto de transposición didác-tica aplicado a AICLE y la literatura sobre secuencias didácticas de AICLE según las voces de los docentes. En este artículo se analizan las miradas que un grupo de 47 estudiantes del profesorado de inglés en el sur de Argentina posee sobre AICLE enfocado en la lengua. Los datos surgen a partir de una encuesta y los planes de clase pensados para estudiantes secundarios con una carga horaria de Inglés de dos horas semanales. Los resultados indican que AICL enfocado en la lengua sigue un currículo lineal, se centra en el contenido sobre el conocimiento explícito de la lengua, y se propone como espacio de repaso de la lengua con estudiantes más grandes.Palabras clave: AICLE orientado a la lengua; transposición didáctica; planificación de clases; prácticas del lenguaje; formación docente en lengua.