Content and Language Integrated Learning

Intercultural Beginning
The term CLIL was launched in 1994 by some of the Consortium experts as an€ educational
solution for meeting certain challenges associated with language learning in Europe. Since
then it has spread exponentially across the continent.

Since 2000, there has also been uptake of CLIL methodologies in Asia, Africa and South
America to either boost levels of language learning, or solve problems associated with the use
of ‘foreign’ languages as medium of instruction.

Globally, educational systems strive to achieve results which are always culturally and
context-specific. Global uptake of CLIL has resulted in a range of different models being
designed and implemented.

Approach

The CLIL educational approach involves the use of methodologies which help build dual-
focussed educational programmes that support both the learning of language and content.

It is suitable in contexts where:

educational provision requires upgrading

language learning levels need to be improved

content-related educational outcomes are not being achieved

Globalisation is moving countries across the World towards a new era, the Knowledge Age.
This has resulted in sweeping changes in how societies, and the educational systems that
serve them, operate. In the Knowledge Age, creativity, intelligence, and connectivity
become key resources for success. This is placing new demands on educational systems.

The key performance drivers of a Knowledge Age society are commonly cited as the
Knowledge Triangle. These involve integrating education, research and innovation, for
managing successful change and adaptation. These form the basis of CLIL methodologies.

SUCCESSFUL
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Humanistic,

Communicative

And lexical

Approach.

A CLIL “approach” is not far removed from humanistic, communicative and

lexical approaches in ELT, and aims to guide language processing and

supports language production in the same way that that an ELT course would

by teaching techniques for exploting reading, or listening texts and

structures for supporting spoken or written English

Bilingual Education...

CLIL
HERE

Clil is a dual-focused educational approach in which an addtional

language is used for the learning and teaching of both content and
language.
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