IMPLEMENTATION OF CLIL AT THE UNIVERSITY LEVEL: THE CASE OF LOGISTICS COURSE

Anna DZIAMA, Magdalena REJMAN-ZIENTEK
2014 Humanities and Social Sciences quarterly  
The purpose of this article is to show the necessity to implement bilingual teaching at university education. At the present time, as we are witnessing the globalization process, university students need to master the second language skills, especially English, in order to become competitive in a labour market. Nonetheless, the demand of modern times development requires from students to use professional language, strictly connected with the major of their study. English language has become an
more » ... dd-on to any university curricular program, yet it came to be a tool to learn something else. It is Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), a methodology introduced by David Marsh, that views language as a vehicle to learn through English. CLIL is a response to the global changes, to be innovative, creative and dynamic. This innovation is entitled in methods and approaches as CLIL entails teaching the foreign language while students learn the subject-matter. In the given paper, the benefits of the implementation of the bilingual programs are discussed as well as difficulties in assimilating academic content through the language process. Yet, this paper on CLIL aims at analyzing the way Polish university lecturers and academics might structure their lectures as well as classes and take advantage of this approach, i.e. incorporating English as a medium of instructions, chiefly in postgraduate programs.
doi:10.7862/rz.2014.hss.15 fatcat:zkjxrndjmffsbbcpgzipu4iasq