Effective collaboration between native and nonnative speakers in the Spanish CLIL Context: The case of the Language Assistants in primary education

Abstract

The existing research focuses on team teaching between native and nonnative speakers in the English as subject classroom, yet the context presented in this study is unique and innovative, as its fucus is science with English as the medium of instruction. This study is intended to be fact-finding in order to strengthen the effectiveness of the language assistant scheme for all those involved, especially for the collaborating teachers, to whom a study of this format will hopefully be helpful for their careers as bilingual teachers.