Taking a CLIL step forward: Teaching and assessing History in English online

CLIL is a contextualized learning approach (Kofou and Philippides, 2017), which underpins communication and skill development, supports the teaching of a curriculum subject in a foreign language (Perez-Vidal, 2007), and develops learners’ language skills and strategies, higher order thinking skills and multiliteracies. Based on Coyle’s (2002) framework of the four key principles of CLIL, the present study presents the implementation of History lessons in the English language in the 1st grade of the 2nd Model Senior High School of Thessaloniki during the school year 2020-2021, through the Webex platform. To that end, a padlet was created for teaching material, and several digital tools were employed. Apart from the learners’ excellent response to the activities, the results of the questionnaire administered to them reveal the development of cognitive and language skills, but also the enhancement of communication and collaboration, critical thinking and problem solving, creativity, motivation and digital literacy.