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I think language competence and language awareness go hand in hand pretty well, because if you are aware of the inner mechanisms that put that language into movement you somehow develop your language competencies. Also, being able to speak several languages may help you not only improve your well rounded education, but also broaden your perspectives, your opportunities and expose you to different cultures and ways of thinking.

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Language competence means interculturality, Literacy, communication.

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Language competencies are most often related to communication between people in a spoken or written form, but language competencies also involve literacy, which includes reading and comprehension, understanding the text , masteriing certain vocabulary etc.

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One language = one world
Two languaeges = two worlds
Three langueges = three worlds
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Language competence means interculturality, Literacy, communication.

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As key tool for communication within multilingual societies, the language competence is very important. It help users to better understand each other, to work together for a common goal, to understand better a task.

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Good knowledge and language awareness of native or foreign languages ​​allows us to lifelong learning and growth in the profession we have chosen. With the help of language awareness, we learn about new ideas more easily, we work on online courses like this, we dare to travel to other countries, we join Erasmus courses. We get to know new cultures, we accept differently, we become citizens of the world.

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Having language skills means getting closer to various cultures and feeling like a citizen of the world :)

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In our world it is crucial to know more languages because it is a way to build bridges and connections between different countries and people and it is also an important strategy to understand the other cultures you get to know. The barriers of the language should be broken and dissapear.

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The more languages you know, the more you have the chance to integrate, socialize, affirm socially, culturally. Knowing several languages, you know cultures, civilizations, you accept other cultures, religions.

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Knowing more languages ​​means reaching more people.

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Teaching and learning through an additional language encourages understanding between cultures, improves students’ cognitive ability and prepares them for life beyond school. We can't forget that we live in an increasingly global world and language skills make travel easier, provides opportunities to study abroad, and improves career prospects.

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I think language is not something you can isolate from the real world and teach it in a lab. It lives, it develops with the person, the culture and the society all the time. To better in languages depends on your other life skills such as critical thinking, communication, creativity, etc. You should learn and develop all the related things together and practice them all at once. In order to do this, you need to have language awareness. As long as you have deep understanding in a language, you will know the ways to be a better communicator of it.

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Nowadays, it is more and  more frequent having a plurilingual classroom. Therefore, communicative competence is a mayor goal in our classrooms that goes hand in hand with language awareness.

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Language awareness is essential, given that integration itself may depend on it, understanding the other, accepting the environment from which it comes.

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To me language competence is "communicative confidence" that is understand and being understood.
The teacher's role is to encourage authentic communication  and provide students with an opportunity to expand their thoughts critically in order to develop active citizenship skills, encouraging them to take a stand in order to be aware and active promoters of change.

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Since our classrooms are filled with speakers of different languages we need to make our students conscious about the opportunities to develop cultural awareness through communicative interactions with other non Spanish speakers.  Although using their mother tongue language our students are aware of their linguistic diversity and their cultural difference, by developing language competence and awareness they can connect to structural and sociolinguistic aspects of their own language and other languages, and this is really important in multilingual societies. Developing a critical Language Awareness teachers would become social activists so that all students are educated equitably and democratically and they can grow up as citizens of the world.

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(Photo by Raimond Klavins on Unsplash)

I think that language awareness can be made bloomed before the development of language competence. From early childhood, when children learn to express themselves in their mother tongue language, parents and educators can help them to be aware of the importance of choosing the right word in the right context, for example. Or they can play with the nuances of the language with games and dramatisation. I think, for examples, of all the funny situations that come from the difference between CASA and CASSA, in italian, or at the wonderful misunderstandings that there are in Winnie Pooh, when the characters loose Christopher Robin at SKULL, and he was just at SCHOOL.
If children are trained to reflect about the language gears, they will be more confident at school and readier to open their minds in the comparison between their language/culture and all the others.

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Language awareness is a key component of effective communication. With the globalization language competence it’s essential to understand another cultures.

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Language competence is necessary in our global world because we need to learn different languages in order to learn their feelings and cultures. We should be aware of lifelong learning.

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Language  awareness and language competence are closely linked to cultural awareness. In a globalised world, to achieve multiculturalism mastering languages is a key factor

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Language awareness and language competence are closely related. By developing one, we develop the other. Unconsciously. When this development becomes on a conscious basis, then progress is remarkable.

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The ability to communicate in a language by using skills and strategies is essential not only to learn a language but also to teach it. Moreover, we as teacher should be aware of the different languages and cultures that belong to our students, so language awareness is a key factor in learning a new language too

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The student becomes an effective interlocutor, insofar as he is available to receive and decode the messages of the teacher / colleagues, has sufficient and deep knowledge, asks and asks questions to expand, clarifies in-depth knowledge, thinks in interaction with others, knows how to listen and express responsibly opinions, experiences, emotions, attitudes.

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I think language is not something you can isolate from the real world and teach it in a lab. It lives, it develops with the person, the culture and the society all the time. To better in languages depends on your other life skills such as critical thinking, communication, creativity, etc. You should learn and develop all the related things together and practice them all at once. In order to do this, you need to have language awareness. As long as you have deep understanding in a language, you will know the ways to be a better communicator of it.

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I think, we have  to differentiate clearly: language skills concerning a foreign language, langage awareness concerning the mother tongue. And the question, what we want to focus on: to support students with migration background, to teach a foreign language ....

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I am an English teacher but English is not my mother tongue, so I naturally make mistakes. Linguistic competence means improving your level of proficiency and it equals to my mind, the effort students make to master a subject through various strategies. So, addressing the linguistic competence means addressing at the same time linguistic awareness.

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Globalisation makes it crucial to be able to communicate with a great diversity of people from other countries and cultures. Language awareness facilitates integration as it increases effective communication, regardless of proficiency level, taking into account English is the global language.

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To be langiage aware person means you are aware of the importance of the language competences as a tool for communications o I believe they are directly related. I must say that I agree with her and I believe that language competences need to be more worked on in schools (at least in my country).

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I agree, on the one hand with Daniela, that language competence is an important tool for communication in multilingual societies and in the working environment as it facilitates communication and understanding. But the last two: communication and understanding need other equally important skills like emotional intelligence, social skills, life skills etc. So we can say that the level of linguistic competence can open the door to better communication if the other competences I mentioned are also present.

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Language awarness in my opinion is connected with communicative competence. Languages are necessary to communicate, but it is not only a language thing. The capacity to communicate goes farther more than languages.
Who doesn't know someone whose communication in his own language is not good enough becouse of a lack of different communicative skills development such as orgainicing a text properly, using poor vocabulary or even having a lack of appropriate body expression to help the speaking?

It is not only a problem in oral language, but also in writing language. Sometimes a person who is using a second language is more communicative because even they write simple sentences, the sentences  are grammatically correct and express what they really want to.

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Being part of a multilingual world is the new way of life. It is very rare nowadays that people stick to their own country and don't have contact with other countries' habits and cultures. Being language aware and language competent should be a common goal for all citizens who wish to be more tolerant, more inclusive and have a global citizen attitude. This would certainly help students' progress at school as well as for their future life.

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The Connection Between Language Competency and Language Awareness

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The Connection Between Language Competency and Language Awareness

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Since language awareness deals with being sensitive to how one's native and non-native language(s) affects a student's education and linguistic development, the connection with language competency is clear since it involves languages as a tool for use in a plethora of aspects within life beyond a classroom. Not only do students who are dual or multilingual know how to communicate in languages other than their mother tongue, but they acquire more experiences and opportunities to learn about other cultures and subcultures that use another language they are either still learning or are fluent with.

—Austin Nicholas Dragoș [United States of America]

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To me language competence is language confidence which is essential for opening up to more and more languages and cultures. The teacher can perform a vital role in the classroom as a model of a global citizen mediating across the languages of the learners.
What I find really challenging is inspiring students to multilingualism and exploring the benefits of diversity for learning for life.

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In the global and multicultural world we live in, language competence is the key not only for communicating but also for better understanding other cultures. It is the bridge that connects people and that can foster peace and intercultural dialogue.

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Communication skill is fundamental. It incites reflection and helps students to get included in a constructive dialogue.

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Language competence is a key factor in attaining effective communication in modern, milti-cultural societies

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This is how I see it: If your language competences are well developped, there should be no problem to be language aware. So, if you've learned to communicate in one language in the manners of a pleasent communication, for example, there should be no problem to adjust you way of communication with others that don't belong to your language origins.

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Nowadays, in the global world that we live in it is crucial to be able to communicate with people from other countries and cultures. Language awareness makes this easier, as it increases the strategies that all of us can put into practice to be able to effectively communicate to each other, no matter the level of proficiency both of us present in the chosen language (usually English).

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It very benefits to communication and learning with the project at world level

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In a global world and thanks to the development of technology you can travel to different countries or continents in more than a few hours. Actually you can connect with other people without leaving your home by using Skype, Google Meet, Teams and so on. But communication competence is essential. You should be able to understand and speak a foreign language. Moreover learning develops you as an individual as it puts your brain to work. Learning a foreign language opens the doors to new cultures, brings people together and it can also be the opportunity to get a new job and starta new life.

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Communication is essential to learn a language that is why in our school we focus on developing their communication skills with a high awareness because starting a conversation or saying a sentence in English at all, can cause difficulty to anynone, mainly young learners.

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Understanding foreign languages equals understanding other people. So, in my opinion, it´s very important to understand a foreign language in order to understand a nation with all the things they have to offer(culture, history etc.)

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Since our partners are foreigners in our eTwinning projects, we have to use the common language English. Here, we provide our students with information about the project in English and prepare platforms where they can communicate with the school students we cooperate with. I think it is beneficial for language development.

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It is vital to speak more languages in order to access international contexts of communication, no matter their domain. It is not only about linguistic competences but also a kind of perception that offers you the language awareness.

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No man is an island, therefore we need to communicate with others.  Today, more than ever, societies are multicultural and this touches schools in a deep way. Knowing that students have different mother tongues doesn't impede them from interacting with each other, since they use English as a link language. However, even when they use English they will continue having a rich cultural background that should be preserved either by schools and societies as well as families.
That's why teachers are the unifying key that might catapult this unique knowledge and use it as an essential tool in their lessons either to promote the confidence of students or to enlarge their horizons. Learning is a lifelong process and the more languages we know, the more open-minded we may become.

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There are many languages in a country because of the migration policies. So that it is a great opputunity to learn about different cultures. We can explain this to the students so that they may be eager to learn a different language.

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I think knowing more languages help us to understand better other societies, traditions, customs because if we learn new languages or we need to learn new languages we open ourselves to different linguistic schemes and rules. It's a way to accept others with their similarities and differences, it's a step to better know other people. It is a hope and a desire to live in a multicultural world united by the same thoughts and values and knowing different languages can help everyone to communicate in a variety of situations and circumstances... we need to be "language aware"

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Knowing how to share information and collectively build knowledge should be the goal of any discipline. Thus, how to understand and respect the sociocultural context in which knowledge is constituted, to express ideas, opinions, emotions and feelings clearly. Be able to develop rhetorical aspects of verbal communication.

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Language compentences is a need becouse all of us live in a multinational society.

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In my workplace we have many multilingual colleagues and its a great oppotunity for us to experience the world languages and support each other on this way. By this means we are becoming more and more aware about the languages.

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Language and communication competences are one of the key skills in nowadays global environment. Understanding foreign languages equals understanding other people, and how can you understand them, if you don't understand their language and their cultural background? I remember Martin Luther King Jr. said that "Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate". So, being language aware means showing a more human attitude, means diminishing discrimination and prejudice. Communication brings us together, that is why language awareness is extremely important.

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when we are learning a language, we are doing it to communicate. The concept of language awareness is essential, especially in multicultural societies to improve our communication abilities.

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Growing up in multicultural Canada, I quickly was exposed to the need for language awareness whether I was actually aware of it or not at the time. I quickly realized however that each of us of various backgrounds not only had a different language but also different ways of communicating. Considering the Canadian context but not only these days, with the global community that we interact with daily, it is evident that language awareness helps us in trying to enter communication with others and gives us more tools for comprehending our conversations. We are not as worried to try to solve things or attempt figuring out common goals. The more that students in any kind of classroom are aware about language (and culture certainly) the better equipped they are to engage with others and to work together more effectively.

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The final purpose in our classrooms is the communication. For that communication to exist, we should bear in mind the competences, why? Because they teach us to value and to respect other cultures and other languages, as for instance the socio civic competence and the cultural languages. Therefore, language awareness is related to the key compentences in the sense that LA supports an understanding of the circumstances, context and language of our students, which means to value and respect their cultures which is formed by their language as well.

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Living in a global community, it is crucial to realise how important it is to be able to communicate with that community. Language competence leads to language awareness and language learning and vise versa. Communication goes beyond the classroom walls and is stretched to all social and working environments.

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I think the world become a global world so we have to learn different languages to become a part of the world

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Language competence is crucial to achieve language awareness. They're interconnected as you cannot be aware if you do not have a deep knowledge of languages.

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Attitudes to language learning can change as a result of methods like task-based activities that promote the inductive learning of language rules, which allow learners time and space to develop their own affective and experiential responses to the language, especially to its contextual meanings and effects.

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Language competences is a need for all of us because we live in a multilingual society.

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Language competence in a multilingual environment is an important tool to understand the world and learn from each other.

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The relation between language and culture as fundamental for the development of educational programs and language education policies is pretty evident. This relationship “obliges” language teachers' to have specific competencies, which they have to develop both in themselves and learners in the multilingual communication environment.

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In my personal experience, I've grown aware of how language competence could be highly developed when I came to Europe and met multilingual students. I was impressed and I envied their ability to switch easily between some many languages. So in my case, it is multilingual environment that has triggered increasing language awareness.

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Thomas, France +Language competence => +Language awareness ?

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Thomas, France +Language competence => +Language awareness ?

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Maybe the natural link between those skills is that improving language competence through multilinguism for instance would result in increasing one's language awareness.

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It’s not only important the language competence but also The language awareness as an substantial element to encourage The understanding among students

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Language is a vehicle for learning - being language aware means understanding the particular challenges that language may pose to learning. Having language competence means that you have acquired the skills and knowledge to access the content and communicate your ideas effectively.

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Having students that speak other language we should see as opportunity to learn about other cultures, so in a way it's rewarding. Teacher will obviously become more competent in a professional way because needs to respond to new tasks about how to approach in teaching students in other language.

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Language competence is a broad term which includes linguistic/grammatical, sociolinguistic and discourse competence. Language awareness can be defined as explicit knowledge about language. In our classes we may have multilingual learners  so as teachers we have to improve ourselves in both of these fields to fulfill our students' needs.

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Language awareness has to be seen as a key of effective language competence which respects cultural diversity and multicultural societies.

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As I said previously, learning a language, means in my opinion, to have a knowledge of that culture as a whole

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We live in a globalized world, so being linguistically competent and aware of the wide variety of languages around us is key to achieve globalization, understandiing and integration.

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To answer the question, I would like to introduce two definitions: Multilingualism = the ability of an individual speaker or a community of speakers to communicate effectively in three or more languages, and Cultural awareness and expression = having an understanding of and respect for how ideas and meaning are creatively expressed and communicated in different cultures and through a range of arts and other cultural forms.
Both lifelong competences, linguistic competence in foreign languages and cultural awareness and expression contribute to a better communication and understanding between people from different countries, improving relationships, attitudes and behaviours and allowing learners and workers to seize their opportunities and reach their full potential.

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Communicate is essential, we need to understand each other. The more aware of language you are, the easier it is for you to understand other foreign languages and to communicate.

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Language competence and language awareness and related in many ways, and the key to each other in our multilingual societies.

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A language, a human word, emphasizes the importance of language very well. The more we interact with people from different cultures and geographies, the more we improve ourselves and our students. You have a lot of experience to tell, but it's useless if you don't have a language. We should convey this situation to students very well and encourage them to learn more than one language. Language is also very important in terms of following and experiencing the work done in the world.

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Absolutely yes. The more languages we know, the more we can communicate with people from different countries by coming into contact with customs and traditions different from ours. All this helps to open our minds.

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Teaching and learning through another language enhances understanding between diverse cultures, improves students' cognitive skills and paves the way for them for life beyond school.
The ability to use more than one language involves we can communicate with people from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds in order to develop multilingualism.

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The more languages we know the more aware of languages we are.

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Communication is the basis for every activity personal or in groups. Language competence in a multicultural society promotes understandig, collaboration and achievement. Language awareness will help students to adapt in any new environment.

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Language competence is definitely an important tool for communication within multilingual societies and the work environment. If you visit a foreign country, either for tourism or professional purposes, it is important to be able to communicate and I believe language awareness is crucial in these matters.

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If we look at the diagramme which has appeared at the end of the video, we could see that both aspects, Multilingualism and  Cultural diversity, have to be/become paralell to each other. The diagram reminds me an up and down swing, however, I belive these words mean the same and teachers tend to „equal” them.

I suppose both aspects exist and develop simultaneously: multilingualism increases our understanding of students’/people’s cultural diversity and cultural diversity, in its turn, contributes multilingualism’s developmnent.

If a teacher has children/pupils/students from different countries, he/she is supposed to broaden his/her mind in order to be supportive and helpful for a foreign student. A language is a tool which helps to start the communication even if we need to use gestures, pictures to start the communication with a foreign student.

So,for me language awareness becomes a provider to multilingualism and  cultural diversity.

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I agree with the theory that language competence is a key tool for communication within multilingual societies. Communication skills are the most important among all the other skills. Language awareness is the basis of effective teaching and communication is very important between the students and the teacher în order to understand the students abilities and competences.

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No doubt, language competence is the essential to communicate with people from different cultures and countries. It makes us be more open-minded and improves our way of perceiving the world we are living in and consequently being able to act in a more critical way. Regarding the work environment, there is no shadow of doubt that it improves work atmosphere, positiveness and opportunity of promotion and mobility.

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Many cities in Europe, especially the largest ones are multiethnic, Big companies have branches in many countries , they need workers able to speak other languages. People like travelling, getting to know other cultures. Scientists, engineers, doctors...need to work or learn from their peers in other parts of the world. Learning other languages is really important in our world today. More and more students join exchange programmes, immersion language courses, Erasmus programmes... in order to get ready for the future. We need to be language competent and, of course, that's because we are aware of its importance.

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Laerning languages is a way to meet new people and, as a consequence, to become more open-minded.

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Being fluent or proficient in a language other than the mother tongue is related to language awereness if you need to bond and blend in the society we live in, to fight racism and to understand and respct cultural differences.

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Both; language competence and language awareness are related, in my opinion. I work in an international school, in the globalized and multicultural society. It is necessary in this job to be language awareness and have language competences developed.

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I think language competence and language awareness are closely related for various reasons, especially in the globalized and multicultural society we live. For example,teachers need to develop both linguistic competence and LA in order to understand students who come from other Countries and to help in their process of learning

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In my opinion, students when they practice cultural and language competitions will develop their curiosity and defensiveness to learn new languages ​​and love to use other languages ​​to compete with other students, and this achieves long-term learning

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Language competence is essential for communicating with students but language awareness is essential for understanding abilities and skills. This will help you to tailor the lesson plan to the needs of the students

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Nowdays, where people across the word are more close than never again, makes language competence the key for communication and living in harmonius way all together. It is necessary for the human world.

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Like it or not, we live in a globalized world. It cannot be denied that English has been adopted as the default common language among different countries, even if no native english speaker is present.

Our students have been born almost with wireless internet connection, and they use it (with more or less proficiency) when interacting with friends abroad.

We have not only to be aware of this, but we also have to be a part of it. Modern society requires us to communicate with people that 100 years ago would probably never have crossed paths with us, and now we are all just one click away one from the other.

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Nowadays, we need to be conscious of the challenges that we have in this globalized world. English has an important role in it, so we, as English teachers need to transmit the idea that it is a necessity to manage with different foreign languages as we are living in this plurilised and multilingual  society. It would bring benefits for everyone. Future genenerations needs to have decent formation, motivation, and accept the challenge. Communication is the objetive in our english class, we need to create opportunities to make students communicate in a cozy atmosphere.

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If a learner wants to be competent in a language, firstly she or he needs to be aware of language and cultural diversity in the world. When you are aware of cultural diversity and you know that languages are unique, it becomes more and more interesting. Then, you start to plan steps to learn that language. It increases your metacognitive and self-regulation skills and you become an autonomous learner.

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Language competence is a key tool for communication within multilingual societies and the work environment. We all need to be language-aware.

It is simply a need in life. Knowing the language is no longer a matter of prestige, pride, luxury, but a vital need in a world that is under constant change.

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The more language awareness you possess, the more you will be aware of how much the knowledge of different languages is important. The more language aware you are, the more effort you will put in learning new languages. The knowledge of some languages is a must in many today's professions and business world.

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Linguistic competence cannot be understood without linguistic awareness, since the two are closely linked. Indeed, one must be able to communicate fluently in at least one language, to convey ideas, thoughts, feelings... It is true that by acquiring adequate language awareness, people increase their language skills in their mother tongue and in learning other languages. This learning of other languages, in turn, helps to open mind, to know other cultures and customs, which leads to tolerance, multiculturalism and multilingualism.

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I believe that language competence and language awareness are very much linked to each other. You need to be "language aware" in order to be proficient in this language and in return language competency enables you to understand better about the language culture etc. This is like a loop.

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Nowdays people are moving more than ever and we have many mutilingual societies. So language awarness is important for all of us in order to embrace differences and promote tolerant society.

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We can communicate in so many ways. Learning languages and being language aware will certainly make the communication more efficient.