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European Community
The birth and growth of european community gave a great impulse to multilingual teaching and encouraged cultural exchange between schools in different states.
In this context, several initiatives have been launched by the EU in the field of Content and Language
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Bilingual teaching in certain European countries.
Bilingual teaching can be considered like a CLIL experiment, even if at that time, the name was still not in use. -
Immersive teaching in Canada
During the 1970s and 1980s, the success of this kind of method has been influenced in particular by the Canadian experiment with immersion teaching. English-speaking parents living in the province of Quebec considered that proficiency in French was vital in a French-speaking environment and English speaking children in Quebec took a great advantage in learning many contents in French. -
CLIL acronim is created
The acronym CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) became the most widely used term for this kind of plan during the 1990s. CLIL is the platform for an innovative methodological approach of far broader scope than language teaching. -
European Council resolution
The “European Council Resolution of 1995 on improving and diversifying language learning and teaching within the education systems” can be considered the first important document about CLIL and states that students of European Union Member States “...should as a general rule have the opportunity of learning two languages of the Union other than their mother tongue(s) for a minimum of two consecutive years during compulsory schooling and if possible for a longer period” -
Reform of Italy’s Second Cycle of education.
In 2003 curricula in upper secondary schools have been revised by Reform of Italy’s Second Cycle of education. -
CLIL is mandatoy in Italy
The Ministerial Decrees 87, 88, and 89 in 2010, in particular, introduced CLIL as mandatory in Licei linguistici (third, fourth, fifth year), Licei and Istituti tecnici (fifth year) Through a specific Decree (D.D. n.6 dated 16 April 2012) , the Italian Ministry of Education established the characteristics of the Italian CLIL teacher profile. -
CLIL in Italian Primary schools
Finally in 2017 in “Indicazioni nazionali e nuovi scenari” we can read that the introduction of CLIL methodology is recommended in every school level.
The statement is very simple: Primary school is involved too.
