What is CLIL?
Defining CLIL
| If you do a Google search with the term 'clil', you'll find a lot of hits which provide definitions of the term. One of the problems for teachers new to this field is that CLIL seems to have become an umbrella term for a wide variety of contexts and with this has come a lack of clear focus for what CLIL, CLIL practice, CLIL materials, CLIL training actually are. There are colleagues who when first involved in discussion of CLIL and what it is can be heard to say 'don't we already do that?', others feel swamped in the plethora of terms which are frequently used synonymously with CLIL but in actual fact reflect the diversity of contexts from which they originate. EMI, EAC, LAC, EAL, Bilingual Education, CBLI and many others (most, if not all, of them can be found here http://www.content-english.org/). | Send us CLIL definitions you find and we'll add them here |
Here is a brief overview of some definitions gathered from a Google search on 'CLIL':
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CLIL refers to any dual-focused educational context in which an additional language, thus not usually the first language of the learners involved, is used as a medium in the teaching and learning of non-language content. |
Teaching subjects through a foreign language but also perhaps teaching content in the language classroom? |
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Content and Language Integrated Learning Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has become the umbrella term describing both learning another (content) subject such as physics or geography through the medium of a foreign language and learning a foreign language by studying a content-based subject. In ELT, forms of CLIL have previously been known as 'Content-based instruction', 'English across the curriculum' and 'Bilingual education'. http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/content-language-integrated-learning |
Note that here there is a suggestion that CLIL is the same as content-based instruction, English across the curriculum and bilingual education. The link to content-based instruction gives a definition from the same site. The important thing in our discussion is that CBI takes place in the language classroom. |
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Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), in which pupils learn a subject through the medium of a foreign language,… http://ec.europa.eu/education/policies/lang/teach/clil_en.html |
Straight from the EU horses mouth. Teaching a subject through a foreign language. |
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CLIL is Content and Language Integrated Learning. It is a learning approach that enables the study of another curricular subject (the Content) through the medium of a foreign language. CLIL is the particular focus on a spectrum of cross-curricular teaching of languages that is currently receiving increased attention, as researchers and practitioners work to develop a place for it in mainstream education, as opposed to experimental project-based settings. http://www.cilt.org.uk/home/ask_cilt/faqs/curriculum/what_is_clil.aspx |
Teaching subjects in a foreign language. Stress on cross-curricular teaching of languages. |
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What is CLIL? If you teach EMI (English as a Medium of Instruction), LAC (Language Across the Curriculum), CBI (Content-based Instruction) or CBLT (Content-based Language Teaching; if you work in Bilingual Education; if you’re a subject teacher working through the medium of a foreign language, or a language teacher bringing in content into your English lesson, you work within the area of Content and Language Integrated Learning. |
First of four articles defining CLIL from Phil Ball for Macmillan's onestopclil.com website. Focus is on content teaching. |
CLIL - Content and Language Integrated LearningCLIL is a dual-focused educational approach in which an additional language is used for the learning and teaching of both content and language. |
Teaching subjects through foreign languages |
El Aprendizaje Integrado de Contenidos y Lenguas Extranjeras (AICLE; en inglés Content and Language Integrated Learning, CLIL) es una corriente de la lingüística aplicada que propugna que en los contextos escolares existe un mayor éxito en el aprendizaje de las lenguas extranjeras a través de las materias comunes, como la historia o las ciencias, que por medio de los currículos funcionales que las tratan de una manera aislada y en situaciones forzadas o inventadas, como asignaturas independientes. |
A trend in applied linguistics... learning foreign languages through content subjects |
31 March 2010
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