Language across the curriculum

One of the roles of the CLIL teacher is to create as many opportunities for use of the
target language as possible. However, language is not practiced in isolation from
subject content. As we saw earlier, CALP is necessary to understand the subject
and communicate about it. To that end, CLIL distinguishes between content-
obligatory language and content-compatible language.

Content-obligatory language
This type of language tends to be academic in nature and it is essential to
learn the subject content and to communicate about it. It is so closely
related to the topics that students will not be able to achieve the lesson
objectives if they do not learn it. Content-obligatory language comprises
specialist vocabulary, grammatical structures and functional language.
Content-compatible language
This type of language provides support to the acquisition and use of content
knowledge. It is social in nature and it is not essential to learn content.
However, it promotes the development and mastery of general, every day
communication skills in the language. As content-obligatory language,
content-compatible language comprises general vocabulary, grammatical
structures and functional language.

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