LÕIMITUD AINE- JA KEELEÕPPE METOODIKAST VENE ÕPPEKEELEGA KOOLIS.

Estonian secondary schools include both the majority of schools where the language of tuition is Estonian and a minority of schools where most pupils speak Russian as their mother tongue and the language of tuition is mainly Russian. In 2007-2012, upper secondary schools of Russian-medium education in Estonia shifted to teaching 60% of the curriculum in Estonian. This was aimed at supporting Russian-medium schools' graduates' better coping in society, education and labour market. The study 'Bilingual Education in Russian-medium Schools' that our research team at Tallinn University carried out in autumn 2012 confirmed that the schools have implemented this change -- Estonianmedium teaching is indeed taking place (as legislated) and is swiftly developing. This article describes, with a focus on methodology, some questions of effectiveness that we studied in content and language integrated learning (CLIL) lessons and supporting Estonian lessons. We discuss the situation and development perspectives of Estonian-medium CLIL in Russian schools. Theoretically, the study relies on CLIL principles and the methodologies of active learning and communicative language learning. Most of the methodological features described in this article are also important for the majority (Estonianmedium) education system. Despite the decrease of the number of students in Russian-medium schools, it is still useful to support the development of education practitioners' skills in these areas of methodology -- especially considering the increasing cultural diversification of the student body at Estonian-medium schools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]