Benefits of CLIL

Benefits of learners

• CLIL learners are motivated

• CLIL learners develop cognitively and their brains work harder

• CLIL learners develop communication skills

• CLIL learners make new personal meanings in another language

• CLIL learners´ language progresses more

• CLIL learners receive a lot of input and work effectively with that input

• CLIL learners interact meaningfully

•  CLIL learners learn to speak and write 

• CLIL learners develop intercultural awareness

• CLIL learners learn about the "culture" of a subject

• CLIL learners are prepared for studying in another language

• CLIL learners learn in different ways

*  Dale L and Tanner R. CLIL Activities: A Resource for Subject and Language Teachers.. Cambridge University Press 2012.

* Article 5 of Volume 1 (4) of the International CLIL Research Journal ‘Coping  with CLIL: Dropouts from CLIL Streams in Germany’.