What is CLIL? What are the advantages it offers?

Is it applicable to your
educational center?
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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Katherine Maria Martinez Salavarrieta - Monday, 10 November 2014, 7:45 PM

(Content and Language Integrated learning)

Is refers to the situation where subjects or topics of subjects are taught in foreign
language. Involves subject learning.
The Advantage of CLIL is that students use the foreign language in subject
learning, It has a purpose, It makes students feel the necessity to learn the
language. When you use knowledge you feel motivated. The learning just for
learning a language demotivated students because there is not a purpose. It is algo
a good way of practicing vocabulary, topics and terms.
I think in a school, it is always applicable CLIL, because it is a teaching
environment where all students from all ages need to learn a subject. So in the
school where I am, I think it will be good to introduce CLIL, to make students learn
more and specific subjects in English.
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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Katherine Maria Martinez Salavarrieta - Monday, 10 November 2014, 7:45 PM

(Content and Language Integrated learning)

Is refers to the situation where subjects or topics of subjects are taught in foreign
language. Involves subject learning.
The Advantage of CLIL is that students use the foreign language in subject
learning, It has a purpose, It makes students feel the necessity to learn the

language. When you use knowledge you feel motivated. The learning just for
learning a language demotivated students because there is not a purpose. It is algo
a good way of practicing vocabulary, topics and terms.
I think in a school, it is always applicable CLIL, because it is a teaching
environment where all students from all ages need to learn a subject. So in the
school where I am, I think it will be good to introduce CLIL, to make students learn
more and specific subjects in English.
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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Katherine Maria Martinez Salavarrieta - Monday, 10 November 2014, 7:48 PM

(Content and Language Integrated learning)

Is refers to the situation where subjects or topics of subjects are taught in foreign
language. Involves subject learning.
The Advantage of CLIL is that students use the foreign language in subject
learning, It has a purpose, It makes students feel the necessity to learn the
language. When you use knowledge you feel motivated. The learning just for
learning a language demotivated students because there is not a purpose. It is algo
a good way of practicing vocabulary, topics and terms.
I think in a school, it is always applicable CLIL, because it is a teaching
environment where all students from all ages need to learn a subject. So in the
school where I am, I think it will be good to introduce CLIL, to make students learn
more and specific subjects in English.
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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Tania Alexandra Abad Rivera - Monday, 10 November 2014, 10:07 PM

Hi everyone!

1. CLIL describes learning any subject or content through a new language

and also learning a foreign language by means of any topic or subject.
(content-based subject).
2. Advantages: Among some advantages I find that
Learning another language will help increase contact with other countries
Language can be integrated into a broad curriculum.
Learning by using CLIL approach will help to learn in real-life situations,
thus making the learning process meaningful.
Fluency is more important than accuracy and the new language can be
used for a variety of purposes.
3. Educational centre: Nowadays, CLIL is applicable to my Educational
Centre in certain majors since they need English to study most of the
subjects, such as Medicine. However, it is difficult to introduce a new
language as part of the teaching context in different subjects, especially
if it is not our native language. It is also complicated because of the
Board of Education policies in my country.
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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Liliana Vizcarra Rivera - Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 6:56 AM

Hi everyone! CLIL refers to teaching subjects or parts of it through a foreign

language. So, in a few words, its like killing two birds with one shot. You teach the
subject and you teach the foreign language at the same time.
There are many advantages in CLIL, but Im afraid these advantages depend
greatly on context. An advantage, especially if its taught since childhood, is that its
like preparing students through new content, where they wont only learn new
knowledge about the subject, but will also learn the correct register in the foreign
language for that particular subject.
Regarding my educational center, in the case of Mexico, due to the educational and
political structure, CLIL is not able to be implemented in government schools. It
would be difficult to find teachers who are both knowledgeable in the content and
foreign language. The sector which uses CLIL is the private one.

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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Banior Urrutia Mena - Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 4:28 PM

Hi dear friends!
CLIL make reference to situations where subjects are taught or learned through a
foreign language with dual- focussed aims.
CLIL has many advantages such as:
1.To improve in both the content subjects and foreign language ,
2.It can make learning a language more interesting and motivating,
3.Learners can use the language to fufill a real or specific purpose. etc
Talking about my educational institution, in this case Colombia, I can say that
Despite I know CLIL may be in the attempt to any educational institution to
adopts its principles I can deny that at the moment the lack of programmes or
teachers with this formation make difficult to implement CLIL in my institution.

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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Wanderley Tavares Mendes - Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 3:14 PM

1. What is CLIL? What are the advantages it offers? Is it applicable to your

educational center?
CLIL - Content and Language Integrated Learning, this acronym supports
its meaning on the curricular sources teaching and learning, geography,
philosophy, history etc., by means of a foreign language.

The advantage of using an approach as CLIL is that the learner might develop
strategy news to enhance studied subject learning, as well as develop the
communicative abilities together a motivational approach, principally, if s'he is used
to like to learn the respective theme in the L1, this factor can
favorh'his development in L2. There also are others aspects, which could be
mentioned as advantage too, just as motivation, teaching and learning construction
perspective news, attitude and aptitude to learn and win the target language
boundaries relate to the four skills achievement, and so on.
CLIL is not considered in the terms of validity to all scholastic centers. This is on
account of the educational public policies, material availability difficulty, teachers
and learners' preparation direction disproportion, etc. These aspects between
others not mentioned here, sometimes highlighted by researchers can
proportionate a negative contrast on the CLIL introduction in diverse centers and
contemplate this adverse theory.
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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Banior Urrutia Mena - Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 4:32 PM

Hi dear friends!
CLIL make reference to situations where subjects are taught or learned through a
foreign language with dual- focussed aims.
CLIL has many advantages such as:
1.To improve in both the content subjects and foreign language ,
2.It can make learning a language more interesting and motivating,
3.Learners can use the language to fufill a real or specific purpose. etc
Talking about my educational institution, in this case Colombia, I can say that
Despite I know CLIL may be in the attempt to any educational institution to
adopts its principles I can't deny that at the moment the lack of programmes or
teachers with this formation make difficult to implement CLIL in my institution.

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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Mary Luz Roa Marin - Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 5:45 PM

Hi everybody
Like is defined above by the mattes, CLIL mean an approach or a method which
integrates content and non native language. The teacher has to clear up the
differences among different ways of delivering lessons: ELT lesson, Native lesson,
Subject lesson, and Bilingualism. This approach involves learning subjects such as
history, geography, science, technology, arts, physical education and so on,
through an additional language. It can be very successful in enhancing the learning
of languages and other subjects, and developing in the youngsters a positive can
do attitude towards themselves as language learners. (Marsh, 2000)
Regarding my educational center, CLIL is implemented in some subjects such as
arts, technology and in some percent science. It is important to highlight that some
teachers that teach these subjects are not qualified in both: content and foreign
language, however they must teach the contents through the foreign language. In
Colombia, agreement with Liliana the implementation of this method depends of
the educational and political structure of the country. Some public schools have
implemented it so far, while private schools a large number of them implemented it
but in conditions some concern in order to an English teacher must teach math,
science, and geography and so on, without have the contents of those subjects. I
consider that formation on both fields, contents and foreign language is necessary
to reach a meaning learning.
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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Dustin Paul Boneth Martinez - Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 7:44 PM

Basically CLIL (Content and language Integrated Learning) is to teach diffetent

subjects included in a curricuum through a foreing language This can be by the
English teacher using cross-curricular content or the subject teacher using English
as the language of instruction. Both methods result in the simultaneous learning of

content and English. However it here at school where I work we don't use this
method.
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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Dustin Paul Boneth Martinez - Tuesday, 11 November 2014, 7:49 PM

to complement what I previously wroteThe term CLIL was coined by David Marsh,
University of Jyvskyl, Finland (1994): "CLIL refers to situations where subjects,
or parts of subjects, are taught through a foreign language with dual-focused aims,
namely the learning of content and the simultaneous learning of a foreign
language."
However, CLIL teaching has been practised for many years, from the Babylonian
era to the early sixties when bi-lingual education was introduced in many schools
around the world. Even if you are unaware of the term CLIL, you may already have
been using CLIL methodology for many years.
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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Camilo Ardila Ramos - Thursday, 13 November 2014, 3:42 AM

What is CLIL? What are the advantages it offers? Is it applicable to your

educational center?
Content and Language Integrated learning it refer an educational approach in
which subjects are taught through a foreign language and this is focused since
both perspectives to the language and the content. According to Freeman (2007),
students learn necessary vocabulary and text structures for each subject, using key
words in the process of listening, reading, speaking and writing on a specific
academic area. Through using CLIL teaching, students learn the language and
content simultaneously.

Yes, it is applicable to our school because in English class it can address issues of
others subjects.
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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Beatriz del Carmen Ynfante Chvez - Thursday, 13 November 2014, 5:34 AM

What is CLIL? "CLIL refers to situations where subjects, or parts of subjects, are
taught through a foreign languagewith dual-focused aims, namely the learning of
content, and the simultaneous learning of a foreign language". (Marsh, D. 2002.
Content and Language Integrated Learning: The European Dimension - Actions,
Trends and Foresight Potential) What are the advantages it offers? Students learn
a foreign language, also subject content naturally as they are completely exposed
to the language; CLIL fosters the language and Thinking skills. Is it applicable to
your educational center? Yes, it is applicable to my educational center as my
students are constantly exposed to the subjects; they apply in their daily routine in
real life.

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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Tolentino Verzosa Rosales - Monday, 17 November 2014, 8:24 PM

I grew up in the Philippines where English is the medium of instruction in all levels
for all ages. It was prohibited to speak any other language on the campus in many
Catholic schools. Speaking another other language meant paying a fine. My
brothers and sisters had no problem with that because English was our mother
tongue. But that was not the case with the vast majority of our classmates - and
even teachers.
While it was true that pupil and students were learning the contents of the different
subjects, memorised the names of the parts of speech and other grammar terms,

including sentence diagramming and other things about English, they had difficulty
carrying on a normal conversation. Even teachers of English made mistakes. My
brothers and sisters, and later my children even had to argue with teachers and
correct them because they were not speaking the English correctly. My children
and nieces and nephews had to do the same. They - teachers and learners - did
develop CALP but lacked BICS and spoke STILTED ENGLISH.
While CLIL is good, I would recommend that pupils and students in non-English
speaking countries be given and at least a 30-minute conversation class every at
least every other day, or perhaps start and/or end each class with at least fiveminute conversations to 'loosen up', warm up, or cool down before and after the
'heavy' subject stuff.

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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Tolentino Verzosa Rosales - Monday, 17 November 2014, 8:39 PM

As for my educational centre, we use CLIL all the time as we teach business
English and try to make it as functional as we can, always starting with a light
conversation topics that interest the students before going on to the lesson itself. In
one-to-one classes the length of these conversations sometimes depend on the
student.
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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Danelia Argentina Fernandez Sunsin - Tuesday, 18 November 2014, 2:54 AM

CLIL is a curricular approach , a way of education that succeeds its best in

multilingual contexts. CLIL offers multiple benefits for teachers and learners; the
students use the language , learn the language and learn through the

language.Learners can develope their proficiency in foreing languages within a

context. This way of education really prepares learner for life.
I work in a IB School ,( what is called schools of the world). In my school 3
languages are taught( English, Spanish and French), but curricular contents are
taught in English. In the case of Primary, we receive children who speak only one
of the language, they get in a short term ESL or ESOL course and then they are
integrated in the class with the rest of studetns.
I really like the idea of making CLIL happen in America, I still wonder how to lead
with the fact that our countries do not have a multilingual background.
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Re: Question 1 - CLIL

by Lilian Silvana Cajamarca Farez - Thursday, 20 November 2014, 4:47 PM

1.
What is CLIL? What are the advantages it offers? Is it applicable to your
educational center?
It is an innovative way of teaching content and language integrated which is an
opportunity for students who have no head for languages. Students will see in this
methodology as a practical application of what and how they study its not easy
making them effort more turning into motivation and improving self confidence. It
requires some adaptacions,adjusments in teaching practice, new designs in the
proccess.
In the center where I work it is not pplicable because students come from different
careers with different curriculums, however in my city some private schools do
apply and teach using the CLIL integrating content and language.