CLIL APPROACH: Evolution of CLIL

Abstract

The main purpose of this study is to analyse the CLIL situation and its evolution. The ability to communicate appropriately in English has become a vital requirement in society. Therefore, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is an effective option to achieve this objective, because it improves students’ competence in English skills. This methodology not only focuses on the structures, but also on different contexts and situations, considering the language as a tool of communication. For this reason, I decided to investigate about the situation of CLIL around Europe and Spain. This research is divided into eight different sections. The first part of the research is an introduction about what CLIL is and its main practices. The second section comprises the CLIL situation in different parts of Europe. After that, the paper focuses on the CLIL development in Spain, comparing its implementation in the monolingual communities and the bilingual communities. Within the bilingual communities, I thought that it was interesting to delve into the Valencian Community and the province of Castellón, which is the region where I live and where I studied. I decided to enrich the paper by interviewing a relevant researcher in order to know her experiences and opinions about CLIL, so that is the fourth section. After analysing her interpretations, in the fifth part of the project, the history of CLIL is explained. That leads to its evolution, which is in the sixth section. The conclusion is in the seventh part. Finally, the last part is dedicated to the limitations of the study.