Professor Do Coyle https://www.ed.ac.

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Do is an international expert in the field of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) after having spent her
career both as a languages teacher (French, Russian and English) in a wide range of schools in the UK and France,
and as an academic, working and researching ways of improving learner experiences in classrooms where other
languages are used as the medium of learning.

As an early pioneer of the CLIL movement in Europe, working with bilingual teachers, she developed the CLIL 4Cs
Framework and the Language Triptych which has now been adopted and adapted globally for guiding and planning
pedagogic approaches for bilingual learning and CLIL classrooms. 

Do has gained worldwide acclaim through her drive to enable teachers and their learners to have confidence in
developing conditions for deeper learning and especially in ensuring that learning is spatially designed,  cognitively
challenging - built on linguistic progression - and is interculturally connected. At the University of Aberdeen (2008-
2017), where she held a 6th Century Chair in Learning Innovation and was Dean of the School of Education and
Music (2012-2016), her work as a founder member of the Graz Group involved a transnational research team,
funded by the ECML. The Graz Group is currently developing a PluriLiteracies approach to Teaching for Deeper
Learning (PTDL) and is constantly exploring ways of achieving sustainable deeper learning across languages and
contexts.

Throughout her career, Do has also  focused on 'shared learning' and technology-enabled spaces which enable all
learners to connect with other learning sites - from the very local to the very global.  She was co-lead  for the Visual
Learning Lab (University of Nottingham) and led a team building the technology-enabled professional learning (TePL)
network in Aberdeen.  She has a keen interest in developing spatial awareness in pre-service teachers and the need
to evidence how space ( inside, outside and across physical boundaries) impacts on learner attainment, achievement
and sense of self-worth.   Her current post at the University of Edinburgh (2017-) as Professor in Languages
Education and Classroom Pedagogies returns to focus on educational linguistics, language education and technology-
enabled shared learning – where her heart lies.  Working in a collaborative team across all Scottish universities,
which successfully developed the National Framework for Languages (ITE), Do’s work focuses on developing
Language Education in MHSES and  pedagogic approaches to support bilingual education in different forms whilst
promoting pluriliteracies skills for all learners. She also aspires to develop the  network and a distinctive research
profile for the Shared Learning Spaces Lab  to encourage more teachers to  rethink 'space' for shared learning and its
impact on their learners. She is currently Director of Research and Knowledge Exchange at Moray House.

A simple tenet drives her work: educators, practitioners and learners are experts – they are the researchers who
need to ‘own’ their practices, be digitally connected and collaboratively build shared learning spaces (SLS) for
optimum conditions for deep learning.  Above all, she believes that language is our greatest learning (and teaching!)
tool.
She became a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques (1998) awarded by the French Government for
services to education promoting European Teacher Education and holds a Lord Dearing Award for Excellence in
Teaching in Higher Education(2002).