Methodology
Practical guidance to make CLIL a reality in the classroom. Articles, teaching tips and reference material to help you in your CLIL teaching.
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Check out our selection of YouTube clips on CLIL.
Inside Methodology
The CLIL Debate
Join in the CLIL debate: CLIL: Complementing or Compromising English Language Teaching?
TKT CLIL Language
In association with Cambridge ESOL we are delighted to bring you a new series on 'Language for CLIL'. Each month Kay Bentley will focus on one item in the TKT: CLIL Glossary, explaining - with examples - what the term means and why it is important in the CLIL context.
Study Skills for CLIL
This series explores study skills that equip students when learning curriculum subjects thorough the medium of English. Cognitive, academic, thinking and process skills are developed alongside language skills in the CLIL classroom, providing students with life-long learning skills. This series of articles and practical examples will help you to incorporate techniques to develop these skills in your lesson planning.
Articles
A selection of methodology articles from CLIL experts and teachers discussing issues surrounding CLIL teaching and covering topics including content-based learning, working with words and lesson-planning.
Teaching tips
Practical advice and ideas from Keith Kelly on using video in class, and from Carol Read on integrating CLIL into the Primary Classroom. This section also features a CLIL factsheet and some useful tips and suggestions for helping students learn and practise vocabulary.
Interviews
This section features interviews with leading experts on CLIL, David Marsh and Kay Bentley.
Fielded discussion on CLIL
The Young Learners and Teenagers email discussion group is housed in yahoogroups and is famous for its activity and energy in many educational contexts and so it was a pleasure to lead a fielded discussion on the area of CLIL from Monday April 20th to Friday April 24th, 2009.


