Keynote Speakers
We look forward to welcoming Christiane Dalton-Puffer and Francisco Lorenzo to World CLIL 2025. Read more about each of our speakers below.
Christiane Dalton-Puffer
University of Vienna
Christiane Dalton-Puffer is professor of English Linguistics at the University of Vienna (Austria), where she is also affiliated to the University’s Centre of Teacher Education.
One of the pioneering researchers internationally on Language and Content Integrated Learning , she is the author of Discourse in CLIL Classrooms (Benjamins, 2007) as well as numerous articles, and co-editor of books and journal issues on CLIL research. Together with Angel Lin she edits the Routledge book series on Language and Content Integrated Teaching and Plurilingual Education. Her work has led her to focus on the question of how teachers and students use language to access and express subject content, working towards the curricular learning goals of specialist subjects while using a second or foreign language.
Francisco Lorenzo
Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Francisco Lorenzo is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain). His areas of interest are L2 acquisition, bilingualism, sociology of language and European language policy.
He is the author of several monographs on Spanish applied linguistics: Motivation and Second Languages (2004), Bilingual Education: content and language integration (2011) and L2 Spanish Academic Language (2020) (co-author). His latest book is Bilingual Academic Language: Concepts and Case Studies (Lorenzo and Granados, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Prof. Lorenzo received the Best Research Article Award from the American Association of Applied Linguistics for a paper on bilingualism and social justice (Lorenzo, Granados & Rico, 2020) in the journal Applied Linguistics.
He has the privilege of leading Working Group 2 of the European Commission’s CLILNETLE network on disciplinary literacies clilnetle.eu
Find out more at his personal website here.
