Does CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) Need Its Own Methodology?

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject English - Pedagogy, Didactics, Literature Studies, grade: 2, University of Frankfurt (Main) (England- und Amerikastudien), course: CLIL- Content and Language Integrated Learning, language: English, abstract: The reason for using especially English for content and language integrated learning (CLIL) nowadays is its function as the global "lingua franca" which means that English is used in such areas as traveling, business, economy, science and entertainment by both native and non-native speakers of English to enable communication with speakers of different languages. Germany holds more than 800 schools that offer CLIL in different modern languages, especially English, whereas North Rhine-Westphalia is the German leader in the field of CLIL [...].