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CLIL – Content and Language Integrated Learning. CLIL. CLIL is a dual-focused educational approach in which an additional language is used for the learning and teaching of both content and language. C ONTENT AND L ANGUAGE I NTEGRATED L EARNING. CLIL – various terms.
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CLIL CLIL is a dual-focused educational approach in which an additional language is used for the learning and teaching of both content and language.CONTENT ANDLANGUAGE INTEGRATEDLEARNING
CLIL – various terms • English across the curriculum • English-medium education • dual-focussed instruction • bilingual content teaching • EMILE (enseignement de matières par integration d‘une langue étrangère)
CLIL The acronym CLIL is used as a generic term to describe all types of provision in which a second language (a foreign, regional of minority language and/or another official state language) is used to teach certain subjects in the curriculum other than language lessons themselves. (Eurydice Report 2006:8)
CLIL • Language and content are being learned in an integrated way • „Using language to learn as well as learning to use language.“ • Language is not only the medium of communication in the lesson but also the content of the lesson
Why CLIL? • cultural understanding • job market benefits • language skills • subject knowledge • cognitive skills
Content is determined by: • curriculum of the subject • functional categories of communication in the foreign language on the basis of the requirements of the subject • study skills that are required
functional categories of communication: • describing • explaining • evaluating • drawing conclusions
Teaching and Learning through a foreign language Communication CLIL CLIL Content Cognition
CLIL-methodology • a specific methodology is required • it needs to serve two aims: • aims of the subject curriculum • aims of the foreign language curriculum The content is learned through the language and the language is learned through the content!
CLIL-methodology • learning objectives will be achieved best if the level of the language is appropriate and the lesson is cognitively challenging • the teacher needs to provide language that can be used by the pupils to verbalise thinking processes