A brief CV

Ana Otto holds a PhD in English Studies and a Masters’ Degree in Teaching English as a Foreign Language. She taught at Secondary Education, the Escuela Oficial de Idiomas and several universities such as UNIR, UEM and University of Alcalá. She teaches in graduate and postgraduate levels in the Department of Applied Linguistics at UDIMA. Her main research interests are CLIL assessment, bilingual education and didactics of second and foreign languages. She is completing her doctoral research about assessment in CLIL.

“Main Challenges and Future Actions Regarding Assessment in Bilingual Education: Looking at Teachers’s Roles and Language Issues”

This paper presents findings from a study on Madrid’s Bilingual Project assessment practices. First, it identifies the challenges teachers are faced with in relation to assessment in CLIL contexts, i.e. the lack of established criteria regarding the language content duality, the need to find the most appropriate tools to assess competencies or skills, and to rethink the teachers’ roles in bilingual education. The identification of teachers’ difficulties and practices in relation with assessment are then compared to other European contexts. Finally, some conclusions obtained from the study are drawn, and some recommendations for both content and language teachers are offered.