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WHAT IS CLIL?

 
CLILstands for Content and Language Integrated Learning. It refers to teaching subjects such as science, geography and art  to students through a foreign language. This can be by the English teacher using cross-curricular content or the subject teacher using English as the language of instruction. Both methods result in the simultaneous learning of content and English.

 Definitions of CLIL:

"CLIL refers to situations where subjects, or parts of subjects, are taught through a foreign language with dual-focused aims, namely the learning of content and the simultaneous learning of a foreign language."

David Marsh, University of Jyväskylä, Finland (1994)

"…an approach to bilingual education in which both curriculum content (such as science or geography) and English are taught together. It differs from simple English-medium education in that the learner is not necessarily expected to have the English proficiency required to cope with the subject before beginning study".

(Graddol D. English Next, British Council Publications, 2006)

"CLIL is about using languages to learn………..It is about installing a 'hunger to learn' in the student. It gives opportunity for him/her to think about and develop how s/he communicates in general, even in the first language".

(Marsh, Marsland & Stenberg, 2001)