Clil has been described by experts as a major methodological revolution in language teaching. The label clil stands for classrooms where a foreign language english is used as a medium of instruction in content subjects. Content and language integrated learning clil a european. In the solid organization of this volume, the introduction and the conclusion bring together the rest of the chapters in a. Content and language integrated learning clil, but also wish to engage with pedagogic issues, including strategies and techniques for introducing and developing the approach in classrooms and other learning environments. The role of content and language in content and language. Language use and language learning in clil request pdf. Clil content and language integrated learning has emerged since the millennium as a major trend in education. The main pedagogical approach followed was the use of learning tasks carried out by students working in dyads. Eg discussion skills, effective group work skills, research skills. Content and language integrated learning has become a buzzword in todays language planning and policy making, especially in europe.
Content and language integrated learning clil a european overview steve darn. Communicate school works in partnership with erasmus plus programme. To conceive and create in small groups a clil teaching unit appropriate for their daytoday real context and. To build a shared set of clil resources elibrarydropbox and a network of colleagues for future collaborations.
What differentiates clil is the planned integration of contextualised content, cognition, communication and culture into teaching and learning practice. Content and language integrated learning clil and bilingual education are increasingly popular across europe. Teaching with clil language and learning come together. Content and language integrated learning in practice. In language lessons i concentrate more on language structures and vocabulary. A comparison of oral foreign language performance of learners in. Written by do coyle, philip hood and david marsh and drawing on their experience of clil in secondary schools, primary schools and english language schools across europe, this book gives a comprehensive overview of clil. When working in a foreign language, learners need structural markers in texts to help them find their way. This volume explores a highly topical issue in second and foreign language education. In the current process of globalization, clil would.
Putting clil content and language integrated learning. Content and language integrated learning content first. Language is a shared primary concern, with subject learning. Analysis of first and foreign language use in content and. Clil connects multiple intelligence teaching, multimodality, activating exercises, and cooperative learning, creating a. The british council recommendations 2014 on clil state. Daltonpuffer content and language integrated learning from. Content and language integrated learning clil is a dualfocused educational approach in which an additional language is used for the learning and teaching of both con tent and language. Classroom interaction and language learning in clil contexts. What is clil content and language integrated learning.
Content and language integrated learning clil teacher access only this content is restricted to teachers registered with the teaching council in ireland. Pdf discourse in content and language integrated learning. Clil content and language integrated learning academic. Pdf language use and language learning in clil classrooms. In elt, forms of clil have previously been known as contentbased instruction. The best texts are those accompanied by illustrations so that learners can visualise what they are reading. Content and language integrated learning the use of an l2 in the teaching of non. Clil means the use of an l2 in the teaching of nonlanguage subjects daltonpuffer 2008. In this context, what is often referred to as content and language integrated learning, or clil, is among the examples cited and is of unusual interest, as already noted in the 200406 commission action plan for promoting language learning and linguistic diversity.
This official stimulus could lead to the achievement of a more bilingual classroom with increased usage of english throughout the school. Language is the vehicle through which learners can demonstrate, apply and articulate their understanding of key concepts coyle cited in lister 2014. The ecml supports clil teachers and teacher trainers not only to take account of and strengthen the language component in subject learning but to focus on the development of cognitive and academic literacies. Discourse in content and language integrated learning clil classrooms. Clil has been enthusiastically embraced as a language enrichment measure in many contexts and finally research offers principled insights into its dynamics. Clil should be applied only by a teacher with an excellent proficiency in a foreign language. Project muse language use and language learning in clil. Before the course begins, please consider and make notes on the questions. This book provides a first indepth analysis of the kind of communicative abilities which are embodied in such clil classrooms. A recent study identified multiple benefits of the use of content and language integrated learning clil for l2 instruction, showing that clil improves overall language ability, critical thinking. If applying clil, the school needs to change it documents. Charting policies, premises and research on content and language integrated learning by daltonpuffer. Language use and language learning in clil classrooms aila.
This is why clil is sometimes called dualfocussed education. Clil is the acronym for content and language integrated learning, a term coined around 20 years ago to describe a situation where a foreign language is used as the medium for teaching nonlinguistic subjects, aiming for students to reach proficiency in both the subject and language. This series of workshops will offer a theoretical framework through which we shall explore content and language integrated learning clil as a viable pedagogical approach. Content and language integrated learning and multilingual education macmillan this book acts as a guide for both language and subject teachers to the various methodologies and techniques involved in clil teaching. Clil is about using a foreign language or a lingua franca, not a second language l2. Content and language integrated learning by do coyle. Limitations and possibilities ena harrop encuentro, 21, 2012, issn 19890796, pp. Language use and language learning in clil classrooms edited by dalton. Lets define clil clil is a dualfocused educational approach in which an additional language is used for the learning and teaching of both content and language with the objective of promoting both content and language mastery to predefined levels.
Content and language integrated learning clil is a relatively new method that has aroused increasing interest ever since the concept of clil was introduced in 1994. Buy your books for english language learning as well as. Content and language integrated learning the use of an l2 in the teaching of no n. The latter model has become the most prevalent in europe in the last few years.
To what extent do teachers and students use english in the classroom. Attaining content and language integrated learning clil. Pdf outcomes and processes in content and language. The only aim of clil is to improve foreign language proficiency of learners. Pdf language learning in immersion and clil classrooms. Christiane daltonpuffer this article surveys recent work on contentandlanguage integrated learning clil. Clil has been enthusiastically embraced as a language enrichment measure in many contexts and finally research offers principled insights into its dynamics and potentials. To generate a bank of activities which integrate language learning with technology. Discourse in content and language integrated learning. Language learning through tasks in a content and language.
Language use and language learning in clil classrooms edited. In clil, the language of instruction is a foreign language and is rarely used or not used at all in social contexts outside the classroom which limits the extent of nonformal and informal learning budvytytegudiene and toleikien, 2008. Analysis of first and foreign language use in content and language integrated learning clil classrooms. Language use and language learning in clil classrooms aila applied linguistics series aals the aila applied linguis. In clil the learning of language and other subjects is mixed in one way or another. Content is placed first in clil as subject content determines language input. Content and language integrated learning clil is an approach where students learn a subject and the language at the same. Our methodology is centred around clil content and language integrated learning which gives a holistic approach to learning. Clil content and language integrated learning the clil course is for teachers of subjects such as maths, history, geography and other who aim to teach their subject through english language. 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 contentbased subject. In consideration of the need for pupils to start using english as a second language l2 beyond the 23 hour a week compulsory english lesson in italian primary schools, the new italian national curriculum guidelines encourage multilingual education. This means that in the class there are two main aims, one related to the subject, topic, or theme, and one linked to the language. Of course, clil involves consequences for classroom methodology. When learning through clil, where an additional language is used, languagesupportive resources, methods and activities are actively and coherently used to enable.
Tarja nikula of language use and language learning in. Related to both contentbased instruction and immersion education by virtue of its dual focus on language and content, clil is here understood as an. In the light of all this, this study aims to analyse to what extent teachers and students use english in their oral interactions o ne of the four language skills in a typical clil lesson c ontent and language integrated learning. The article presents how teachers can use classroom interaction to guide. Relating the microprocess of the courses room to the larger macro context in which lte is situated, we conceptualise teacherlearning as the appropriation and resistance to skills and. A clil lesson looks at content and language in equal measure, and often follows a fourstage framework. Using a language other than the l1 as a medium of instruction is certainly an. This work explores a topical issue in second and foreign language education. The third section deals with classroombased clil research and participants. Language learning in immersion and clil classr ooms 19 between an immersion teacher and the students in grade 6 during one thematic unit shows that quantitatively, the. However, little empirical research has been conducted to support claims as to its actual differences from regular foreign language classrooms let alone its alleged effectiveness in teaching language, content or both. Content and language integrated learning clil has become a focus of attention in recent years, particularly in the state sector in various countries and on the interface with the private school and university sector.