Reseña de Ruiz de Zarobe, Y. (Ed.) (2016). Content and Language Integrated Learning. Language Policy and Pedagogical Practice. Oxford and New York: Routledge, 179 pp.

Abstract

This book is a welcome and timely contribution to the CLIL context as the outburst of diverse variants of the CLIL approach continue to expand around the world and investigation on this phenomenon is still much needed. The volume brings together solid empirical contributions with the aim of providing new insights into language policy issues and pedagogical practices, and offering an integrating vision of these two aspects. However, the book does not limit itself to that issue, and actually shows evidence of the need for general guidelines and national policies, on the one hand, and grassroots initiatives, on the other, which need to go hand in hand to make successful teaching and learning processes come to life. Reflecting the variety of the field, the nine chapters that give form to this book provide thorough and comprehensible accounts of CLIL realities, showing a smooth transition from policy-level to classroom-based evidence and investigation, thus tying these two key aspects together and underscoring the importance of their interweaving.