CLIL in the Context of Foreign Language Teaching
1. Foreign Language Teaching
Teaching a foreign language
includes
- Language competencies - to become fluent in the target language through speaking, listening, reading, and writing.
- Communication Skills - to provide learners the ability to express themselves in authentic contexts.
- Grammar Skills - to construct understandable sentences requires an understanding of grammar rules and structures.
- Vocabulary Acquisition - to acquire a large vocabulary is necessary for both verbal expression and comprehension.
- Cultural Competencies - gain knowledge of the target language's customs, traditions, history, and social norms improves language comprehension and fosters cultural awareness.
- Technology Integration - to improve learners engagement, offer interactive learning opportunities, and make real language materials more accessible.
- Pragmatic Competence - to understand when and how to use language appropriately in a variety of social contexts, both formal and informal.
For this reason, the Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL)
method is currently considered an effective method of acquiring
knowledge from a non-linguistic subject and language. Due to the
modernisation of everyday life, it is necessary to modernise and
innovate the teaching process. It is the CLIL method that brings
something "new, non-traditional, out-of-mainstream education" into
foreign language lessons, but also in non-language subjects.