CLIL (content and language integrated learning) or AICLE (aprendizaje integrado de contenido y lengua extranjera) are generic or "umbrella" terms that refer to any educational situation in which an additional language, which is therefore not the most used one in a given context, is used to teach and learn other subjects.

It is not a specific methodology, but any kind of educational approach whose aim is to learn the contents of one or more non-linguistic subjects and a foreign language in an integrated way.

It is in close relationship to the Content-based Instruction (CBI) language learning approach, developed especially in the USA and Canada from the 1970s in order to improve the learning of English or French by immigrant students. They differ in the stronger focus of CBI on second language acquisition (which is the majority language in that social context) than in the learning of the non-linguistic contents.

In our school the second language is English, and the non-linguistic subjects that are taught in English are maths, geography and history, technologies, visual arts, and music.

• What is our CLIL project like? (page in Spanish)
  
  
• For teachers: CLIL course. If you want to learn more about CLIL, you can find here some of the materials we used in September 2014 for our training course.