If lexis be the food of communication, speak on! CLIL. A language-in-progress, hands-on approach. Engineers or bricoleurs?
What follows is informed by my experience as tutor to a group of senior-secondary schools teachers taking part in a project aimed at helping them design and implement a science and technology CLIL course to be imparted through the medium of L2, in this case English. The tutorials were inspired principally on the Lexical Approach (Lewis, 1993; 1997; 2000) and the workshop sessions, besides some theoretical discussions, consisted in simulating the strategies and techniques the teachers would apply during the lessons with their students.