English in Times of CLIL: Proposal for a New Methodology for EFL in CLIL Contexts

Abstract

“We have found the ideal ELT textbook this year. There is nothing to improve.” This was the answer I received from a student in our Master’s program, a primary teacher, to whom I had just suggested she might want to focus her end-of-program research on the implementation of a teaching unit based on texts. A few months later, after she had tried out this new teaching approach, neither she nor her students wanted to go back to the textbook for learning English. CLIL asks for a change in methodology — also in the English lessons.