CLIL Approaches in Education: Opportunities, Challenges, or Threats? / Enfoques de AICLE en la educación: ¿oportunidades, desafíos o amenazas? / Abordagens de AICL/CLIL na educação: oportunidades, desafios ou riscos?

• Published in: Latin American journal of content & language integrated learning 2016-07, Vol.9 (2), p.253
• Main Author: McDougald, Jermaine S
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Bilingual Schools; Bilingualism; Classrooms; Collaboration; Content and language integrated learning; Education; Education policy; Foreign language learning; Language; Language Acquisition; Language Skills; Language teachers; Learning Activities; Learning Processes; Pragmatism; Students; Teachers; Teaching; Teaching Methods; Training
• ISSN: 2011-6721; 2322-9721
• DOI: 10.5294/laclil.2016.9.2.1

Education has always brought about challenges in society for as long as people can remember. However, when variables such as bilingualism or even focusing on content and language integration are added, what comes next is no mystery. Many educators, regardless of their field, have come across many different hurdles in the classroom, from preschool to higher education. Nevertheless, they have always seemed to overcome these challenges through research, training, policy, creativity and plain old innovation. This does not come as a surprise, since the success of any nation is related to how educated their citizens are. Nations invests enormous amounts of their GDP (1.6 % to 12.8%, according to the World Bank, 2016) on education and new policy in language development and even more on research. The world is constantly changing; hence, the importance of being able to respond to its demands is of utmost importance.