Outputs (8)

Collaborative curriculum making at a local level: the Culture and Language integrated Classrooms (CLiC) project – integrating linguistic and cultural learning in the day-to-day practices of language teachers (2025)
Journal Article
Koro, R., & Hagger-Vaughan, L. (2025). Collaborative curriculum making at a local level: the Culture and Language integrated Classrooms (CLiC) project – integrating linguistic and cultural learning in the day-to-day practices of language teachers. Language Learning Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/09571736.2025.2475107

Despite international trends, fostering learners’ intercultural understanding (ICU) remains subordinate to linguistic proficiency in language education policy and everyday practice in England, whilst making the case for intercultural learning require... Read More about Collaborative curriculum making at a local level: the Culture and Language integrated Classrooms (CLiC) project – integrating linguistic and cultural learning in the day-to-day practices of language teachers.

Through the Lens of Culture: The Transformative Value of a Content and Language Intercultural Learning Approach in England (2024)
Book Chapter
Koro, R. (2024). Through the Lens of Culture: The Transformative Value of a Content and Language Intercultural Learning Approach in England. In H. Reinders, & S. W. Chong (Eds.), Innovation in Language Learning and Teaching: The Case of England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales (63-97). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-66241-6

The importance of developing learners’ intercultural understanding (ICU) through language education has gained standing in curricula internationally, to respond to the challenges and opportunities brought by globalisation. However, in England, despit... Read More about Through the Lens of Culture: The Transformative Value of a Content and Language Intercultural Learning Approach in England.

There is content in language already! Redefining content and language integration through the (inter)cultural lens. (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Koro, R. (2021, August). There is content in language already! Redefining content and language integration through the (inter)cultural lens. Presented at AILA 2021 CONGRESS - The dynamics of language, communication and culture in a changing world, Groningen, Netherlands

Language through the lens of culture: Developing learners’ intercultural understanding through material selection and design in the CLIL classroom. (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
KORO, R. (2019, March). Language through the lens of culture: Developing learners’ intercultural understanding through material selection and design in the CLIL classroom. Presented at Educating the Global Citizen: International Perspectives on Foreign Language Teaching in the Digital Age, Munich, Germany

Integrating language and culture in the Modern Languages classroom in England: The potential of CLIL, the imperative of Global Competency. (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Koro, R. (2018, June). Integrating language and culture in the Modern Languages classroom in England: The potential of CLIL, the imperative of Global Competency. Presented at The European Conference on Language Learning, Brighton, UK

Developing secondary language learners' intercultural understanding through a CLIL approach (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
KORO, R. (2018, March). Developing secondary language learners' intercultural understanding through a CLIL approach. Presented at Working CLIL, Porto, Portugal

CLIL in the classroom: planning lessons and units of work to support language learning, and to increase learners’ motivation and intercultural understanding (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
KORO, R. (2018, March). CLIL in the classroom: planning lessons and units of work to support language learning, and to increase learners’ motivation and intercultural understanding. Presented at Working CLIL, Porto, Portugal

To what extent is a CLIL approach useful in teaching intercultural understanding in MFL? (2017)
Thesis
Koro, R. To what extent is a CLIL approach useful in teaching intercultural understanding in MFL?. (Thesis). The University of Reading. https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/6536390

This thesis investigates the importance learners and teachers of Modern Languages in England attach to the development of intercultural understanding, and the extent to which this is incorporated in everyday practice in the context of secondary educa... Read More about To what extent is a CLIL approach useful in teaching intercultural understanding in MFL?.