#9 What is CLIL?

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'CLIL refers to situations where students are taught through a foreign language with dual focussed aims in: the learning of content and the simultaneous learning of a foreign language'.
(Marsh, 1994)

As professor Do Coyle says in his article Developing CLIL: Towards a theory of practice, Clil is ​​using a foreign language as a tool of learning a non-language subject in which students learn both content and language.

Teachers should inform and do training courses to implement this tool as useful in learning both children and teachers. But in order to be useful, it requires a good preparation and a solid foundation already is not teaching history in English but rather the goal is to work content and knowledge with the use of the language and let children learn by themselves through experimentation. Language is just the way to communicate.


By using of CLIL in many schools, children have increased language skills and expanded vocabulary. CLIL has increased participation in the classroom and ,at the same time, has helped children to communicate in a language which is not theirs of a very natural way. To getting a good CLIL, this has to meet three essential requirements:

- You have to be flexible to adapt to student learning and, at the same time motivating to engage the student's attention.

-It has to work through the 4Cs Framework (content, communication, cognition and culture)

- Learn using language and using language to learn.

If we implement a language as an obligation, most children do not learn. But, if we use in a particular context and attractive for students, benefits may be satisfactory. Although, we cannot forget that order for an activity be useful and get good results has to have a teaching staff that works to get it and do it in a cooperative and collaborative.

Clara ***