Soft CLIL and English Language Teaching

<p>Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) is a transformative and powerful approach to language education and has had a significant impact on educational pedagogy in recent years. Despite burgeoning literature on the efficacy and implementation of CLIL there remains a gap between CLIL and English Language Teaching (ELT). Many practitioners wonder how they can ‘do CLIL’ if their main classes are focused on English as a Foreign Language (EFL). This volume addresses these concerns by examining the experiences of various CLIL practitioners in the EFL context of Japan. </p><p>Chapters outline the CLIL methodology the differences in ‘hard CLIL’ (subject led) and ‘soft CLIL’ (language-oriented) before focusing on the EFL interpretations of soft-CLIL. Although the distinction of hard CLIL and soft CLIL has been mentioned in several publications this is the first book-length exploration of this issue featuring chapters examining expectations challenges material support implementation and even motivation in CLIL classrooms. All of this culminates in a review of the potential and future of CLIL in EFL contexts paving the way for more widespread and well informed implementation of CLIL all over the world. </p>