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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