CLIL

CLIL, the initials for Content and Language Integrated Learning, refers to teaching a curricular subject using a language other than that normally used by the students, or the teachers, for that matter.

Teachers working with CLIL are specialists in their own discipline rather than traditional language teachers. The key issue is that the learner is gaining new knowledge about the 'non-language' subject while encountering, using and learning the foreign language.

One still-to-be resolved issue is that of lecturers possibly having an insufficient level of English and their apparent reluctance to undergo methodological CLIL training.