ELT: DASS Autonomy Development using ePortfolio

David Marsh is an author of The CLIL Trajectory: Educational Innovation for the 21st Century iGeneration, Córdoba Academic Press 2013, and lead author of The Higher Education English Language Landscape: Ensuring quality in English language degree programmes, VIU 2011; co-author of Uncovering CLIL, Integrated Learning in Bilingual and Multilingual Education, Oxford: Macmillan 2008, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2010; and co-editor of Quality Interfaces: Examining Evidence & Exploring Solutions, Eichstätt Academic Press 2012.

He has working inside Finnish education for more than 25 years and has experience of short and long-term assignments in Africa, East Asia, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, South America, and the USA. He co-launched the European context of CLIL in the 1990s and is now involved with launching bilingual schools and enabling transformation of underperforming educational systems.

Watch the following video Why CLIL with David Marsh  

Despite the self-explanatory nature of the phrase 'Content and Language Integrated Learning', the true nature of CLIL still remains elusive. This introductory article "What is CLIL" (of four) briefly analyses a series of broadly-accepted definitions of CLIL as a way of highlighting its most significant characteristics.

Read this article, watch video and prepare in your words what CLIL is (a short comment, definition, drawing, cartoon...).