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CLIL may be beneficial for all parties involved in implementation: schools,
teachers, learners, and parents.
Advantages for the school:
• CLIL implementation within the school curriculum will raise the profile of
foreign language learning throughout the school. It can also support the
school’s development and make it more responsive to local needs.
• Moreover, invaluable experiences have been gleaned in subjects with a
vocational orientation such as nursing, health care, home economics,
woodwork and metalwork.
2.4 Learners
Type of learner suited to CLIL
CLIL is not intended to be an elitist form of education. In principle, all
learners can benefit from CLIL irrespective of their cognitive abilities. This
approach to learning should be the free choice of learners and their
parents. Each school needs to decide about selection criteria (if any), that
is which language pre-requisites are desirable for enrolment, although
most secondary schools have found it appropriate to require some prior
knowledge of the L2 before their learners start CLIL.
Advantages for the learners:
• through the exposure to more interesting, authentic (i.e. real world)
contents CLIL leads to greater involvement, helps learners increase their
motivation
• through the interactive and co-operative nature of work CLIL helps
boost self-confidence, raise self-esteem, build learner independence and
teach learners organisational skills
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