Linguistic Diversity offers important oppurtunities for expanding cultural horizons and raising language awareness among all students.
Collaborating on the writing, editing, and illustration of dual-language books, and talking with others about the stories or information, enhances students' literacy and communication skills
• Teachers can encourage the parents to continue to use their own language at home. • Teachers can assure the parent , that using first language is not an hinderance but beneficial for learning the second language at school • Teachers can give out invites in student’s L1 to include parents.
• Parent workshops can be organised
• L1 also becomes a resource to the family.
• A language audit • Multilingual bulletin boards • Language profiles
• Language of the week
• Identity texts
• Multilingual poetry café
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• When a student’s first language is adopted, the student sees L1 as a component of identity. • L1 becomes the foundation for second language learning • L1 is used as a tool of learning.
• using a language they are familiar with can boost students' self-esteem
• Demonstrate that they have a wealth of experiences and knowledge that they are just currently unable to communicate.
• invites and brochures these differences into the classroom
• shows to them that their world is a welcomed and important part of the classroom
