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lexico-grammatical features that characterise different CDFs in CLIL students’ productions (e.g., Nashaat-Sobhy & Llinares, 2020; Evnitskaya & Dalton-Puffer,
2020). In this article, we use SFL to analyse the oral and written realisations of the CDF Define by 6th grade students
participating in a CLIL program in Madrid, Spain. A total of 83 students responded to the same prompt (on science) in writing (in
the form of a blog) as well as orally (in the form of an interview). In the oral interviews the co-construction of definitions by
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concept of semantic waves (Maton, 2013). The analysis of students’ definitions is also
related to primary CLIL teachers’ evaluations using comparative judgement.
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