CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) has strengths such as allowing students to naturally learn a language in context rather than through memorization, acquire cross-disciplinary skills by using a different language to learn subjects, and learn collaborative thinking skills. However, it also has weaknesses like difficulties in understanding discouraging some students and requiring teachers to carefully plan each lesson and assist any students struggling. Opportunities include motivating students by learning both a language and subject, using collaborative and practical methodologies, and teaching life skills, but threats comprise having too many students per classroom to properly attend to, less motivation from students facing difficulties in the foreign language, and intense work planning activities and materials.

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Why not CLIL?
SWOT ANALYSIS about CLIL
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
• A natural way of learning a
language not memorising
but learning in a practical
context.
• Students acquire cross-
disciplinary skills. They are
using a language different
from their own while they
learn a subject.
• Using collaborative
methods, students learn to
think for themselves in a
collaborative way.
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• Difficulties in
understanding could be
discouraging for some
students.
• As teachers, we should
plan carefully each lesson.
• As teachers, we must help
our students, and be
especially attentive to
students who may have
difficulties.
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
• Motivate students. They
are learning a language,
and learning a subject, so
they can feel they are
really improving their
knowledge and skills.
• Collaborative and practical
methodologies.
• Students are learning life
skills.
• Too much students per
classroom. Difficulties
attending the students.
• Less motivation of some
students who have
difficulties in the foreign
language.
• Intense work planning
the activities and
preparing didactic
materials.