Course : CLILing Citizenship Education

      "CLIL stands for Content and Language Integrated Learning and it refers to educational settings where a language other than the students' mother tongue is used as the medium of instruction. Researchers and practitioners have been using it as an umbrella term to refer to the various European programmes of bilingual education"(Matthaioudakis, 2014). In other words, the term CLIL describes both learning another (content) subject (Citizenship Education in our case) through the medium of a foreign language (i.e. English) and learning a foreign language (i.e. English) by studying a content-based subject (i.e. Citizenship Education). Forms of CLIL have previously been known as "Content-based instruction", "English across the curriculum" and "Bilingual education".

The basis of CLIL is that content subjects are taught and learnt in a language which is not the learners' mother tongue. Language is integrated into the broad curriculum and its knowledge becomes the means of  learning content; it is seen in real-life situations, in which it can be acquired by students. It is, thus, natural language development which builds on other forms of learning, improved through increased motivation and the study of the natural language seen in context.

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