The present study explores the developmental patterns of bilingual secondary education students in a disciplinary writing task in Basque, their language of instruction. A cross-sectional sample of 547 bilingual students (Years 7-10) enrolled in Basque Model D immersion programmes completed a source-based writing task requiring them to produce two…

The study of motivation in Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) contexts has hitherto one-sidedly been concerned with motivation to learn the foreign language, without regard for CLIL's eponymous focus on the inextricable connection between language and content. To fill this gap, this article focusses on CLIL learners' motivation not…