Disputable Issues and Perspectives of the Implementation of CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning) in the Educational Process

Gerasimenko Tatiana Leonidovna, Varenina Lyudmila Petrovna

The article aims to consider the disputable issues of the implementation of CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning) approach in teaching a foreign language that happens through learning the content. The importance and necessity of CLIL is growing as it facilitates training successful specialists of the XXI-st century who possess not only professional but also foreign language competences and are able to implement them in various activities. Both some advantages and drawbacks of this way of language teaching are highlighted. Its further perspectives which are closely connected with the rapid development of information technology and global processes in various fields are outlined as well.

Keywords:CLIL (Content Language Integrated Learning), CLT (Communicative Language Teaching), critical thinking, ESP (English for Specific Purposes), communicative competence.