Supporting Dual language

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Learning more than one language in the early years enhances brain development across social, emotional, and cognitive domains

Differences between academic language and conversational language

L1 is foundation for building L2

Students who continue using L1 and developing literacy in L1 do much better at school

School Culture

Create a welcoming school environment

Access to Interactive Websites for Learning

Access to printed text at school and home

Strategies that allow to pick up the academic language at all levels of education

Responsibility to support ELL students for all teachers

Assessment

Academic language proficiency

Social language proficiency

Content knowledge

Google translate

https://translate.google.ca/

Home-school connection

Volunteer at school

Continue to communicate and enhance your home language

School Policy

Shared lidership

Knpowlegable Leadership

Empower

Take turns

Take turns and be willing to shift roles

Read

Read books that reflect their background

Read dual language books

Affirm

Affirm and allow children to speak their language if they need to

Engage

Engage and celebrate studnets culture

Honor

Honor their culture by conducting research