Activating CLIL... putting the theory into practice

CLIL is a dual-focused educational approach where an additional language is used for the learning and teaching of both content and language. Research shows the cognitive, academic and social benefits of growing up in a multilingual context. The challenge for learners is to develop their communicative competence in different languages in an integrated way and at the same time. The challenge for the teacher is to provide the necessary and extensive exposure to English which enables their students to develop both their social and academic language. That’s the theory – we’ll be looking at ways to put it into practice!