Exploring the Impact of CLIL Programmes on Students’ L2 Writing Skills

This article explores the impact of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) on L2 written competence in order to determine which aspects of L2 writing may benefit from this learning setting. Several studies comparing L2 writing performance of CLIL and non-CLIL students suggest that CLIL may have a positive effect on L2 students’ writing regarding lexical and morphosyntactic resources, but examining its impact on L2 discourse competence brings inconclusive results. In this study L2 written work of CLIL and non-CLIL students was analysed in terms of lexical and syntactic richness as well as coherence and cohesion of the texts.