This document presents a SWOT analysis of CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning). It identifies strengths such as learning language in context through meaningful activities and helping classmates. Weaknesses include the extra work for teachers and potential difficulties for students if they don't understand the language. Opportunities listed are increasing ICT, fostering thinking skills, and preparing students for future opportunities. Threats include harming other subjects for weaker language students, and lack of resources, time, recognition, small class sizes, and prepared materials.

1. Why not CLIL?
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SWOT ANALYSIS about CLIL
STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
 Learn target language in a real
context way with significative
activities.
 In most of the activities the students
can learn or be helped from their
own classmates.
 Promote new methodologies
(cooperative work, ICT, rubrics...).
 Improve the language skills.
 The teacher has much more work to
prepare the programmation.
 If the students don’t understand the
language, they can't be acquired the
contents of the subject.
 When the vocabulary is technical, is
possible the student don't learn it in
first language.
 Lack of time to work all the topics of
the subject’s curriculum.
OPPORTUNITIES THREATS
 Increase the use of ICT in the
classroom.
 Foster the thinking skills and the
cognitive processes by creating their
own learning.
 Prepare the students for the future
by interacting in a foreign language
that can offer them more
professional opportunities.
 If a student is not good in language
subjects, CLIL can harm the study of
the other subject.
 Lack of resources, time for
preparation and coordination,
recognition and
too many students per class.
 Lack of prepared material of some
subjects (for example in art area).