RefleCtion
By teaching CLIL lessons, you are giving students the strategies to grow, acquire and activate
cross-disciplinary skills by using a language different from their own. Moreover, language
becomes a tool for communication as repeated exposure and stimulation helps students
assimilate the language while learning content.
Another aspect to bear in mind is that CLIL supports critical thinking and collaboration skills.
Students are expected to pay attention, observe and learn the language by learning about other
subjects in that language.
EXPERIENCE OF COORDINATING WITH OTHER PROFESSIONALS INVOLVED IN CLIL
Understanding that CLIL lessons include exploration of the language and must be based on
material directly related to a content-based subject, it is essential that the language teachers and
the ones of other involved subjects are closely coordinated. This means that there must be
teamwork in all the process:
1. Choosing the subject matter that is going to be worked on.
2. Preparing all the materials, which will be needed in the sessions.
3. Planning and timing these sessions.
4. Assessing, that is to say, analysing the whole process in order to make the necessary
improvements.