Learning is a constant process, hence striving for new knowledge and new skills should be amongst
the highest priorities in people’s professional and personal lives. To speak, at least, one of the foreign languages has, nowadays, become one of those essential skills for every person striving for their improvement. Being aware of the constant growth and urgent need for new language learning methods, language teachers need to be able to improve and implement them in their teaching. This paper aims to introduce two innovative approaches that have recently been getting significant attention based on their effectiveness.Drama Based Pedagogy (DBP) and Content and Language Learning (CLIL) are two approaches to learning whose main aim is to increase the quality of the very teaching-learning process where the central focus is on a student. How to effectively engage students in learning while raising their motivation, and developing learner autonomy is what these approaches strive to achieve. This paper aims to present both approaches in terms of the advantages, structure, and techniques they use. Based on this overview, the very shared characteristics these approaches have will be presented. The final part of this paper presents a practical example of the lesson plan adjusted by implementing the powerful connection of DBP and CLIL.
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