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CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) is
an approach which is neither language learning nor subject
learning, but an amalgam of both and is linked to the
processes of convergence – the fusion of elements which
may have been previously fragmented, such as subjects in
the curriculum. This is where CLIL is groundbreaking.
To give a parallel example common in recent times, we
can take studies on the environment. A seminal publication
on the subject in the 1960s later led to a need to educate
young people in schools so as to both inform and, perhaps
more crucially, influence behavior. Topics relating to the
environment could already be found in chemistry, economics,
geography, physics, and even psychology. Yet, as climate
change became increasingly worrying, education responded
with the introduction of a new subject: “Environmental studies”.
In order to structure this new subject, teachers of different
disciplines would have needed to climb out of their respective
mindsets grounded in physics, chemistry, geography,
psychology and so on, to explore ways of building an integrated
curriculum, and to develop alternative methodologies by
which to implement it. Climate change is a global and local
phenomenon, so the increasing availability in some countries
of information and communication technologies during
the 1990s provided tools by which to make some of these
methodologies operational.
If we return to languages and CLIL, we have a similar
situation. The late 1990s meant that educational insight was
firmly set on achieving a high degree of language awareness.
Appropriate methodologies were to be used to attain the
best possible results in a way which accommodated diverse
learning styles.
(D. Coyle, P. Hood, D. Marsh. CLIL: content language integrated learning.
Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2010.)
The word “yet” is polysemic (has more than one meaning)
in English. Choose the alternative in which it is being used
with the same meaning as in the excerpt from the second
paragraph “Yet, as climate change became increasingly
worrying…”.
