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In schools dealing with high migration emergencies, teachers often face several serious challenges. Not only do they lack linguistic resources to integrate foreign students into the learning activities of their usual classroom, but they also lack effective strategies to engage individuals, who have experienced trauma or come from entirely different cultures. This course proposes to merge reflection on CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) and translanguaging to help schoolteachers respond to these challenges. While CLIL is an extremely popular methodology to create engaging classroom activities, translanguaging is less renowned. It challenges the traditional view of languages as separate entities and approaches language use and instruction recognizing the full linguistic repertoire of multilingual individuals. In translanguaging, languages are seen as complementary and interconnected resources that can be strategically used to support learning, understanding, and communication. Thus, translanguaging encourages individuals to fluidly and flexibly draw upon their different languages, dialects, and registers to communicate and make meaning. During the course, participants will engage in a variety of activities designed to facilitate their understanding and application of CLIL and translanguaging. They will learn how to incorporate CLIL principles into their lesson planning, considering both hard and soft CLIL approaches, productive and receptive skills, and the use of authentic materials. They will also learn to do the same with translanguaging, practicing a series of activities that exploit multilingual ...read more.