Simo, Charlotte D.
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Journal : Journal of English Language Teaching and Linguistics

Enhancing EFL Learning in Cameroon’s Language Centres through Content and Language Integrated Learning Akumbu, Pius W.; Simo, Charlotte D.
Journal of English Language Teaching and Linguistics Journal of English Language Teaching and Linguistics, 3(2), August 2018
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This study seeks to determine how Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL), already applied successfully in other parts of the world, could be adapted to teaching English as a foreign language in language centres in Cameroon. The problem identified was the fact that 43 out of 64 students leave language centres with a lot of general English but with little or no language abilities relevant to their fields of experience, whether academic or professional. The results revealed that the implementation of CLIL had a positive impact on learners’ development of diverse skills necessary for their success in academic and/or professional settings since there was a remarkable improvement in students’ performance in the experimental group (93%) as opposed to the limited (lower) performance of the control group (56.4%), providing therefore factual evidence of the effectiveness of the CLIL approach over other conventional approaches in meeting students’ needs and interests after training.