Promoting plurilingualism

5 WORDS

• Plurilingualism
• Practical knowledge
• Language learning process
• Different backgrounds
• Witnessed

3 IDEAS

• Teachers have to be trained in language learning in L1 and L2 and methodologies to teach them.
• Curriculum must consider the teaching-learning of different languages, allowing teachers ans students to expand their linguistic repeoire.
• Teachers have to pprovide students with meaningfun and motivatng information from other cultures to promote plurilingualism.

1 MAIN IDEA

Learnes don't share common linguistic bases, their process of language acquistion can be a little bit different. Moreover, we have to provide them with a direct contact with all the languages in the class to make them natural and integrated in the school, which means respect for them and a big benefit  for children education and development of their social skills.

IN MY SCHOOL...

The first thing that you can observe in Escola Pia Sant Antoni is that it is full of different cultures around the world in every class, so it means that children can speak many different language. Most of them know Catalan or Spanish and they speak another language at home, but some of them who have already arrived for a different country are learning our languages with support teachers.

I strongly believe that they respect all cultures and children are very conscious about multiculturalism because it is treated in classroom. Despite this fact, it means a lot of effort for teachers that have to be very well prepared in order to teach languages. For example, Mar makes translations into Catalan or she compares somethings with its grammar; but she has to take into account that there are children from other places and they don't share that knowledge, so she has to scaffold their learning in an oder way like images.

Finally, one curiosity is that children from places like India or Philipinas have a very high level of English as the education system in their country is in this language, so they can get a little bit of prominence on English lessons because they can help their classmates or read as an example of pronunciation.