What should mean CLIL?

In the current course, me and my classmates spend the classes working and discussing about CLIL, these four letters are around all the knowledge and the contents that we are learning . Obviously, the meaning is known for all of us: applying CLIL is to teach one subject in addition to a foreign language, with a methodology that can provides the increase of capacity in order to reach both goals: specific content and linguistic.

In my opinion, CLIL is truly useful as a tool to teach these two topics. This joint leads to a doubtless improve of basic language skills (reading, listening, writing and speaking), and gives a value-added to the subject´s knowledge. Despite this, I think it´s really complicated to get the correct "mixture" between the two things, I mean that if the language level used in class is not adapted to our student's ability, it could lead into the worst situation: don´t improve nor language skills nor the skills of the subject. In addition, thinking deeply on this relation, we must understand that the linguistic job maybe it´s being done in some other subjects, but our subject´s topics will be  teached just in our classes.

Due to this, I think we have to apply a flexible CLIL methodology, always trying to increase the language content, but giving more importance to our subject´s topics. The aim it´s to be effective and useful  in both areas.