Innovation in Language Learning

CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) is the approach endorsed by the European Commission to teach content through a second language. Therefore, this methodology has boosted within biligual contexts at all educational levels across Europe. The 4C’s that define CLIL (Content, Cognition, Culture and Competence) must be deeply interwoven for a successful implementation of the approach. Nevertheless, its accomplishment within Higher Education is still a long way from positive outcome due to the inherent features of University teaching: syllabuses where content is prioritised; coordination among lecturers, departments and knowledge areas, which is difficult to achieve; and the lack of implementation of Integrated Didactic Units (IDUs). This paper will analyse the benefits of overcoming such difficulties for European bilingual University Degrees.