Your guide to
CLIL: Content &
Language
Integrated
Learning
‘CLIL is an approach in which a
foreign language is used as a
tool in the learning of a non-
language subject in which both
language and the subject
have a joint role.’
(Marsh in Coyle: 2006)
MYTHS:
CLIL is teaching a subject in English.
The language is more important than the
subject in CLIL.
There is only one way to teach CLIL.
FACTS:
CLIL lessons show better results compared
to the traditional ones.
It is necessary to take every learner's
language level to play a CLIL lesson.
You have to be either a language or a
subject teacher to teach CLIL. (?)
CL IL vs Hard CLIL
Hard
ft CL IL
so A type of partial immersion when almost half of
the curriculum or more is taught in a non-native
language.
Soft CLIL
Teaching topics from the curriculum as part of a
language course.
CLIL for learners with low
or even zero L2 ability
KEY: lots of visual aids
& interactive lessons
For kindergarten students: For primary school students:
story videos explanatory videos
songs songs
storytelling theatre
games story books
theatre projects
arts & crafts poems
worksheets interactive notebooks
Promoting
out-of-school learning: Expos
ure to
Learning platforms: L2
Edmodo eXeLearning
Moodle Schoology
Assignments:
Language learning apps:
reading books
Easy Peasy App
writing stories
making videos and movies
sharing future content with parents
Socioeconomic
criteria
Use:
motivation boosting tecniques
TPR
cooperative work
peer tutoring
Scaffolding
strategies
Use scaffolding to make contents
gradually more difficult to learn
visuals and realia first language
connecting to previous graphic organisers
knowledge gestures/modeling
sentence intentional small
structures/prompts group/partner work
of CLIL Content: Communication:
Cs subject matter
topic
knowledge of the language
language skills
Community Cognition:
(culture): cognitive skills
community building Lower-order thinking
intercultural skills (LOTS)
awareness Higher-order thinking
skills (HOTS)
+ Context (5)
Thank
You!
