What is CLIL (Content and Language-Integrated Learning)

The chapter provides a consistent analysis of two approaches to teaching foreign languages in the system of professional education: the concept of professionally oriented education in Russia and the concept of ESP in the European science. The chapter presents a comparative analysis of CLIL theoretical fundamentals, which were developed by a group of European researchers and professionally-oriented language learning popular, which is still widely spread in the system of higher education in Russia. Nowadays CLIL is becoming popular in Russia too, and in some educational establishments, it is broadly applied. But at the same time, educators are still confused in differentiating these two approaches. The chapter considers common differences between the two approaches in terms of comparing methodological principles, regulatory requirements in organizing education, teaching techniques; it analyzes and systematizes methodological errors committed by teachers when shifting to curriculum integration learning.