The Educational Method of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL): An Overview

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Didactics for the subject German - Pedagogy, Linguistics, grade: A, language: English, abstract: This essay deals with the concept of the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) as a method. CLIL is an innovative approach in which content and language are integrated with the goal to provide more exposure to the foreign language and to enrich the areas of language use thus enhancing language learning through the content of various school subjects. In this approach lessons for subjects like chemistry, history or geography are redesigned and taught in the language target leading to a better acquisition of the target language.