For several years now, I have been teaching on a university pre-masters programme. in a business school.
I have described some aspects of the programme here:
The programme consists of several modules and I have been involved with several of them over the last 5 or 6 years. One module that I have spent a large amount of time on is “Introduction to accounting”. It was team-taught with an accounting lecturer and me. We worked very closely together and mainly used the same materials. The accounting lecturer concentrated on the accounting content and I focussed on the language content. I have taught on this module for 5 or 6 years – sometimes twice a year – and as time passed, I have slowly come to the conclusion that it was not really possible to separate the accounting content from the language. We described the course as a CLIL course as the business subjects we were teaching and the language was well integrated and the aim of the course was to develop both. However, as they are taught by different people, does that mean it should be described as an EMI course rather than a CLIL course or even CBI? It does not really matter what we call the course, but it is interesting to look into the distinction in more detail.