CLIL (Content and Language Integrated Learning) aims to create connections between learners' lives and content taught in school. Learners co-construct their understanding through using language to learn. It recreates conditions of first language acquisition. A CLIL environment provides rich input, intake, and output opportunities, though not all input becomes intake, hindering learning. CLIL fits within national curricula and enriches learning by requiring cooperation between language and content teachers with common teaching strategies. Core CLIL features include multiple focus, safe environments, authenticity, active learning, scaffolding, and cooperation driven by cognition and thinking. The goals are holistic student development and independent, substance-focused learning through meaning-making as