Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, grade: 2, University of Frankfurt (Main) (England- und Amerikastudien), course: CLIL- Content and Language Integrated Learning, language: English, abstract: The reason for using especially English for content and language integrated learning (CLIL) nowadays is its function as the global "e;lingua franca"e; which means that English is used in such areas as traveling, business, economy, science and entertainment by both native and non-native speakers of English to enable communication with speakers of different languages. Germany holds more than 800 schools that offer CLIL in different modern languages, especially English, whereas North Rhine-Westphalia is the German leader in the field of CLIL [...].