Empirical Perspectives on CLIL Classroom Discourse

Biographical notes

Christiane Dalton-Puffer (Volume editor) Ute Smit (Volume editor)

The Editors: Christiane Dalton-Puffer is associate professor of English linguistics at the University of Vienna (Austria). In recent years she has researched and published on CLIL-classroom interaction. Her other research interests include L2 phonology, learner attitudes, bilingual education, morphology and the history of the English language. She is the author of several books and articles. Ute Smit is a senior lecturer in English linguistics at the University of Vienna (Austria). Her research interests fall into the intersection of applied linguistics and socio-linguistics and she has published on the role of English in South Africa, as well as on attitudes of advanced EFL learners towards different native and non-native varieties of English. Her present research focus is on English as a lingua franca as a classroom language.