Abstract

In an educational system like ours, with four curricular languages in compulsory education, language integrated treatment and its contents (TILC) has to become, undoubtedly, a privileged instrument for multilingual education, because it allows to fulfil two goals at the same time: to acquire contents of different academic disciplines and to simultaneously provide competences in the language or languages with which these contents are developed. This article describes the concept of integrated language treatment and contents; the main components of this approach are also analyzed from a didactic point of view; and finally all the aspects studied will be used in the structuring of a thematic unit that includes disciplinary contents of one or more areas conveyed in a L2 and that can be used in Primary and Secondary Education contexts.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, it deals with the terminological and pedagogical vagueness of Content and Language Integrated Learning. On the other hand, it assesses this teaching approach from a plurilingual perspective. With respect to the first aim, we will explain the difference between CLIL and CEIL, as the former embraces the latter. Regarding the second aim, we will discuss one of the issues recurrent in most debates concerning plurilingual education, namely, the feasibility of acquiring the target language at no cost to subject learning or to first language development. The inclusion of a number of pedagogies based on genre, language awareness or translanguaging will be presented as paramount to achieve all the didactic potential of quality CLIL.