2015 年 45 巻 p. 61-70
While CLIL (content and language integrated learning) has been proved to be an effective foreign language teaching method in many European countries, few studies on CLIL have been done in Japan. First, this paper intends to clarify some theoretical frameworks of CLIL compared with content-based instruction and immersion. Next, a CLIL practice of science, which was given mainly to upper grades pupils in a public lecture of Kure City, is reported in consideration of content, communication, cognition and community. Finally, this paper aims to suggest that this practice will become an important guideline for elementary school English as a future formal subject.