Conceptualising effective CLIL teaching practice: The ECTP observation tool

Based on a solid theoretical framework and observation, Flores (2018) designed the Effective CLIL Teaching Practice (ECTP) for pre-service Teacher Education. The tool for observation (the ECTP Observation Tool) was based on Sagasta and Ipiña's (2016) Tool for Analysing Units of Work (2016) and used in several studies. This chapter will present some of the results obtained in a research study carried out at the Faculty of Psychology where the ECTP tool was used. Conclusions drawn from the study show that there is a need to guarantee a solid foundation of teaching competence, in terms of knowledge, actions and attitudes in Teacher Education. This study also contributes to the multilingual ethos by dealing in depth with content and language integrated learning (CLIL) in Higher Education and by focusing on ECTP in pre-service Teacher Education.