An educational approach called Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has been gaining acknowledgement in Europe for the last 10 years.It is now gradually being introduced into Japanese education.This paper seeks to clarify the increasingly acknowledged approach CLIL, while its definition has become more difficult to grasp as the variety of its application has proliferated.The paper then deals with recent practices implementing CLIL in Japanese universities.Significance and concerns of introducing CLIL into Japanese universities will be stated.The article concludes by identifying measures in order to bring about successful implementation of the approach which will contribute to the improvement of language teaching in Japanese universities.
Ai Ohmori (Fri,) studied this question.