Volume 21 , Issue 1 , July 2025 , Pages 767-782
Raman Qalandar Hussein Abdulkareem 1
1 - Dept. of English, College of Languages, University of Sulaimani
English language has influenced and occupied the world in many aspects such as economic, social,
political and educational system. Kurdistan Region is no exception in this regard. Learning English,
as a foreign language (EFL), has been the demand of the majority, which led to the emergence of
EMI (English as a Medium of Instruction). All these termed for an innovative form of education,
content and language integrated learning (CLIL) has been the response. CLIL is an educational
method by which subjects are taught through a foreign language with dual-focused aims, namely
learning the content, and learning a foreign language simultaneously.
This paper is about the implementation of CLIL in the selected science, technology, engineering,
and math (STEM) departments at the University of Sulaimani. It presents how some selected teachers,
on individual basis, have implemented CLIL method in the STEM departments voluntarily. The study
hypothesizes that it is more effective to learn English language in integration with the content.
As a result, this study finds out that learning a language through content is one of the best methods
to have control of both knowledge and language together at the same time.