Basic concepts to understand CLIL in a few slides. Useful for teacher trainees who have no idea of what Content Integrated Learning is.

1. CLIL
CONTENT LANGUAGE INTEGRATED
LEARNING
MEd. Maria Luisa Mu

3. Implications
• CLIL(Content Language Integrated
Learning): Teaching subjects as Science,
History and Geography to students
through a foreign language.
• This can be by the English teacher using
cross-curricular content or the
subject/content teacher using English as
the language of instruction.

4. Conceptualisation

5. Students need the language to communicate with the teacher and
one another so as to access or apply content.
• By doing so, students strengthen the connections between language
and the previous knowledge, increasing learning and retention, a
form of acquiring knowledge in a friendly way for the brain.

6. Language use
• Language of learning: the language needed
for learners to access basic concepts and
skills relating to the topic.
• Language for learning: the language all
learners need in order to operate in a foreign
language environment.
• Language through learning: learning
cannot take place without active involvement
of language and thinking.

7. Breaking down knowledge
• Scaffolding: the process of helping
learners move “into the new by using a
little of the old”.

8. Projects
• Bring together content and language.
• The finished product can be displayed in class,
included in a portfolio and often include
collaborative tasks.
• Consolidate information from different parts of the
curriculum in a natural way and provide variety for
both students and teachers.
• They integrate the four skills while, at the same
time, promote learner autonomy and cooperation.

9. Summing up
• CLIL has a dual focus: introducing students to content areas such as
science, music, art, maths or geography using a foreign language to
teach all or part of the subject curriculum.
• CLIL learners need language to assist their thinking and they need to
develop their higher-order thinking skills to assist their language
learning.