Educational prospects of Techno-CLIL strategies and implementation in the subject of History for the last triennium of Secondary schools

Abstract

Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) was born in the ‘90s, explicitly aimed at fostering the European multilingualism at school, by means of the embedding content and foreign/minority languages, whose implementation non-linguistic subject teachers have been the only main characters for a long time. As a matter of fact, by now CLIL does not seem to be as widespread as wished in the European schools, often because it is not seen as an opportunity for teachers, but as a demanding top-down policy, both in training them and in workload for them. So, it is not perceived primarily in its global importance for a new kind of schooling, in which multilingualism is part of the holistic knowledge required to students of the XXI century, not the only real aim of CLIL, as the almost exclusively interest in it of the Foreign Languages (FLs) and Applied Linguistics Departments could demonstrate.