CLIL in its broadest sense is Content and Language Integrated Learning. It has begun to exist officially since the 1990s. It is an educational approach originally derived from Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) while applied more by language teachers.
The creator of CLIL is David Marsh. Through CLIL you integrate at the same time the learning of content and the learning of a foreign language, which is usually the English language. However, it could be taught in any foreign language as long as it is not the native language of the learners. Although most people think that CLIL is only about teaching an academic subject such as physics, chemistry, biology, etc. CLIL can also be about learning any other subject with any content, regardless of whether you revolve around academic issues. That is, CLIL can be used even in the field of entertainment such as fashion, gastronomy and cinema.
Generally
CLIL is a method in which parts of a course or lessons are taught through a foreign language with the aim of not only learning course content but also learning a foreign language at the same time.
Moreover
The famous, widespread and successful CLIL program is directly related to the correct cooperation and communication between foreign language teachers and content teachers. In particular, each teacher is an expert in his field. Therefore, it is imperative that the two teachers share the corresponding principles and information that they have at their disposal. This way a more constructive cooperation is achieved and consequently the best possible results.
The content teacher
The teacher who deals with the content teaches a lesson, e.g. chemistry. However, the CLIL approach technique is highly specialized due to its particularity as a pedagogical method. That is, the content teacher is not an expert in language acquisition or pedagogy. Consequently, you require the content teacher to either have some training or simply be able to use the native language of the learners as well as English, a technique known as multilingualism. In addition, the support of the foreign language teacher will be necessary.
The language teacher
The language teacher has to be responsible for teaching English (or any other language). Of course, the CLIL pedagogy supports that the content teacher must list in advance the relevant vocabulary as well as the functional language of the course. accordingly (literature or physics, for example emphasizing critical thinking and ability which either pre-exists or needs to be developed.
XRISTINA ANASTASOPOULOU
