CLIL in Practice: Integrating Subject Content and Language

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) teaches subject content through an additional language, so that learners develop subject knowledge and language skills at the same time. This practical course gives subject and language teachers the theory, methods and digital tools to plan and teach effective CLIL lessons. Participants start with how languages are learned. They explore key theories of first and second language acquisition, from behaviourism and universal grammar to Krashen’s Monitor Model and the five stages of second language acquisition, and look at childhood bilingualism and the benefits of early second language learning. They then move into CLIL methodology in practice:

• the 4Cs of CLIL: content, communication, cognition and culture
• cooperative and blended learning and the flipped classroom
• practical implementation of CLIL and lesson planning
• digital materials with Microsoft Whiteboard, Canva, Adobe Express and Slidesmania

In ICT and gamification workshops, participants create animated and interactive videos, maps, timelines, e-books and comics, and design classroom games with Genially, Gimkit and Cram. The course ends with each participant designing, presenting and discussing a CLIL lesson plan for their own class, connected to the subject they teach.