Content and Language Integrated Learning: Origin, Development and its Possibilities in China

Abstract

Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is a teaching method with dual teaching purpose, and its purpose is to learn another subject through foreign language, so that foreign language learning and subject learning can be learned simultaneously. CLIL guides students to study in real, pays attention to both teaching topics and teaching language. Since its introduction, it has attracted the attention of academia and has been popularized in many countries. This article takes CLIL teaching as the research object, summarizes CLIL’s foreign research and practice from the aspects of origin, development, application in classroom and current development, and tries to explore the significance of CLIL teaching to the promotion of college English teaching in China.