Last modified: 2021-10-18
Abstract
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a ‘dual focus’ educational approach to help students to acquire both subject content and language simultaneously during a lesson. CLIL utilises students’ language skill to enhance their understanding of the subject content through cognitively stimulating tasks that promotes the development of their Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) and Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS). Such an educational approach bridges the gap between student’s content understanding and Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) through linguistical support during content learning. Although CLIL was launched in Brunei Darussalam during 2010, it was largely used in subject area of English. Non-language disciplines such as Social Studies and Geography have limited exposure to such an educational approach to teaching and learning. The aims of this presentation are to review relevant literature on (i) the uses of CLIL in different countries and its reported outcomes, (ii) educators’ perceptions of CLIL and (iii) how it informs a potential study in the area of secondary geography education.