For one who has been navigating in uncertain CLIL (content and language integrated learning) waters for almost a decade, it was a great pleasure to read Lasagabaster and Sierra’s (2010) article in ELT Journal which clearly states that ‘CLIL is not immersion’. I could not agreemore.Not only is CLIL not immersion, here, I would like to discuss how CLIL has the potential to significantly renovate both content education and language instruction through what I call a ‘CoreCLILConstruct’: a way of reasoning. In turn, this Construct provides classroom teachers with three concrete ‘CLIL Operands’: ways of proceeding. I would like to draw the attention of the EFL community to howscience educators are using these same‘CLIL notions’ to significantly improve science education. Since EFL practitioners are in a prime position to contribute to this effort to renovate twenty-first century education through CLIL, I list two reasons why the EFL community should take note of CLIL.

CLIL…not only not immersion but also much more than the sum of its parts.

TING, Yen-ling
2011-01-01

Abstract

For one who has been navigating in uncertain CLIL (content and language integrated learning) waters for almost a decade, it was a great pleasure to read Lasagabaster and Sierra’s (2010) article in ELT Journal which clearly states that ‘CLIL is not immersion’. I could not agreemore.Not only is CLIL not immersion, here, I would like to discuss how CLIL has the potential to significantly renovate both content education and language instruction through what I call a ‘CoreCLILConstruct’: a way of reasoning. In turn, this Construct provides classroom teachers with three concrete ‘CLIL Operands’: ways of proceeding. I would like to draw the attention of the EFL community to howscience educators are using these same‘CLIL notions’ to significantly improve science education. Since EFL practitioners are in a prime position to contribute to this effort to renovate twenty-first century education through CLIL, I list two reasons why the EFL community should take note of CLIL.
2011
CLIL; Content and Language Integrated Learning
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