Content and language integrated learning

Content and Language Integrated Learning, or CLIL, is an approach to foreign or second language education. Students learn both the foreign language and school subjects together at the same time.

Many people describe CLIL as having "Four C's." Usually they are: cognition, content, communication, and culture. Some people think "community" should replace culture.

CLIL comes from earlier approaches to language education such as bilingual education in Canada and Content-based Instruction in ESL and EFL around the world. CLIL has become very popular in primary and secondary education in Europe, especially Spain. But, it is becoming popular in many other countries, too.

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Approaches	Communicative approach Comprehension approach Dogme language teaching Lexical approach Natural approach Sociocultural learning theory Whole language learning
Methods	Audio-lingual method Community language learning CALL Content-based instruction CLIL Direct Method Extensive reading Grammar-translation method Language immersion Pimsleur system PPP Silent way Suggestopaedia Task-based language learning
Techniques	Back-chaining Dictogloss Jigsaw techniques Shadowing Total physical response
Key concepts	Critical period hypothesis English as a lingua franca Input hypothesis Fossilization Interlanguage Language transfer Learnability/teachability hypothesis Needs analysis Output hypothesis Second-language acquisition Syllabus World Englishes
Assessment	Language assessment CEFR DIALANG IELTS TOEFL TOEIC UCLES
Professional organizations	IATEFL TESOL
Important people	Betty Azar H. Douglas Brown Pit Corder Jim Cummins Rod Ellis Stephen Krashen Diane Larsen-Freeman Michael Lewis Paul Nation Alastair Pennycook Patricia A. Richard-Amato Jack C. Richards Wilga Rivers Earl Stevick Scott Thornbury Henry Widdowson