CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning)

Stephen Krashen has developed a theory that if you but away all focus on language and more on the content in what they are learning about.

Say for instead that you get you’re students to focus on the content so much that they forget about the language. What happens then is that the language becomes natural to them, and if the content is something that interested the student then everything will go smooth. I have had an experienced with that where we were aloud to talk about anything we wanted as long as it was in English. Then everybody in my class talked from their hearts, and even students that had struggled earlier with speaking English talked. This is an experience that I will use myself when I am going to teach. To be able to get the students to just forget about the language, and just to let them self go and to speak without think about the language. The same goes for if you are going to write an essay you have to let the creativity float and after wards you check the language for grammar errors. Think if J.K Rowling’s did not let her imagination float what would have become of Harry Potter then?

Let your imagination float and you will succeed….

All of this tells me that if you but more focus on the other thing and if you do it in the right way then the other will eventually follow.

Krashen has five hypotheses and CLIL is apart of number five and after my opinion is a way that sums up how Krashen has been thinking and throw these other hypotheses we understand that he comes to this conclusion that sums it al up after my opinion.