Certifying teachers' foreign language proficiency: developing a performance test for Italian CLIL teachers

摘要

The article illlustrates a project based at the University of Venice to design a performance test to certify the conpetences of CLIL teachers. As CLIL is not easily understood as a construct, there are many directions for research within this context. The article discusses how investigation of the target language use through the qualitative analysis of data from CLIL classroom observations can help to address some of the main issues that challenge performance test design.