A BRIEF HISTORY OF CLIL

By annaaandri

  • Maastricht Treaty

    it focuses on the development of European dimension and of an active citizenship able to communicate and to interact through plurilingual comptences

  • White Paper on Education and Training: Teaching and Learning. Towards the Learning Society

    EU citizens should have competence in their mother tongue plus two Community foreign languages. «It could even be argued that secondary school pupils should study certain subjects in the first foreign language learned"

  • The European Year of Languages 2001

    It highlighs the central importance of promoting linguistic diversity and increased language learning

  • Barcelona meeting

    The European Council calls for further action to improve the mastery of basic skills, in particular by teaching at least two foreign
    languages from a very early age

  • GUIDE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF LANGUAGE EDUCATION POLICIES IN EUROPE FROM LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY TO PLURILINGUAL EDUCATION

    Language Policy Division

  • Promoting Language Learning and Linguistic Diversity

    the Commission concluded that major efforts are required to:
    - make sure that everyone can speak two languages as well as their mother tongue;
    - improve the quality of language teaching, from kindergarten through to adult education

  • A New Framework Strategy for Multilingualism

    Experts identified a need for national plans to give coherence and direction to actions to promote multilingualism amongst individuals and in society generally. They should include:
    - Better teacher training
    - Early language learning
    - Content and language integrated learning
    - Languages in higher education
    - Developing the academic field of multilingualism
    - European Indicator of Language Competence

  • European Label Language

    The Commission proposes to award projects involving prospective teachers as well as in-service teachers who, at any level of education, teach a language subject, or teach languages through CLIL or other informal methods

  • The Lifelong Learning Programme 2007–2013

    It was established by Decision No.1720/2006/EC of the European Parliament and was designed to enable people, at any stage of their life, to take part in stimulating learning experiences, as well as developing education and training across Europe.

  • Council Resolution on a European strategy for multilingualism

    It invites the member states to devote particular attention to the further training of language teachers and to enhancing the language competences of teachers in general, in order to promote the teaching of non-linguistic subjects in foreign languages
    (CLIL — Content and Language Integrated Learning);

  • European Framework for clil Teacher Education

    it provides a set of principles and ideas for designing curricula for professional teacher development in the area of content and language integrated learning (CLIL)

  • CLIL Action

    It is a project aimed at the secondary high school curriculum. It has been developed within the memorandum of understanding between Eni and the Italian Ministry of Education and complies with the requirements envisioned in the “digital school” policy, in a web 2.0 context, in accordance with CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) focused on the integrated learning of the English language and four scientific subjects: physics, chemistry, biology and geoscience