Introduction: CLIL in Spain and Japan

Abstract

Despite its origin in Europe, the concept of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has now been popularised in both European and non-European countries in Latin America and Asia, and Japan is not an exception. This book compiles pedagogical practices and CLIL studies from two sites, Spain, where CLIL has been implemented since the 1990s, and Japan, where the CLIL approach has been gaining momentum. By so doing, this book describes how CLIL has been evolved in distinctive socio-political, historical and cultural contexts, focusing on three aspects of the CLIL implementations at the two sites: policy, practice and pedagogy. The introduction of the volume defines what is meant by CLIL in this book and explains the structure of this edited collection, which comprises four parts: language policy, practices in CLIL classrooms, interactions in CLIL classrooms and CLIL pedagogy and teacher education. A brief introduction of each chapter is also provided in the introduction.