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Hopefully , They can exchange experiences & knowledge to learn from each other.

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I hope they

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I hope they can learn from each other

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For me, I hope they can learn from each other

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Donatella Passiatore, ItalyI have been teaching, for many years, Drawing and History of Art in a Scientific High School. Among the various projects developed there is one that I proposed in the previous school year in a first class entitled "Party at Stonehenge" using various communication languages including: Comics, literary creativity, English language and video and music production. A very educational and engaging experience that I have repeated this year with other topics. I have always worked in collaboration with the teacher of English Language and History.

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Donatella Passiatore, ItalyI have been teaching, for many years, Drawing and History of Art in a Scientific High School. Among the various projects developed there is one that I proposed in the previous school year in a first class entitled "Party at Stonehenge" using various communication languages including: Comics, literary creativity, English language and video and music production. A very educational and engaging experience that I have repeated this year with other topics. I have always worked in collaboration with the teacher of English Language and History.

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Maybe they can learn together in this case. Students can learn from other students some words from their language

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It is very important for people to fuse together, to meet, to understand each other.

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In my opinion, to give space to the student telling our experience in his different country or sometime using our language create a positive situation in class.

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I think that letting the children speak their own language is a way to empower them and make them feel at ease. Giving them this possibility even if we don't understand what they are saying means that we trust them.
I also like the idea of making them write in their own language. In that case their text can be read and maybe translated by a classmate.

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I think it's impossible to use different languages during the English lesson, but we could think of activities in which the students can say words in their language. For example creating a glossary of words using the languages of the whole class

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I really like Nell's ideas, but I think preparing lessons for students whose language I don't even understand sounds challenging. Of course the goal should always be to make students feel comfortable in their learning environment, but I'm not sure how I could I achieve this.

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I can t let my students speak in their language without I know that language...our educational sistem don t let us to do it
in our lesson

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Is important express feelings in different languages, not only verbal languages

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I think, it might work but I also agree that it is risky to allow pupils speak their mother language especially when teacher doesn´t speak it. It depends on pupils´motivation to do the task. However, if pupils can discuss the task in their mother tongue and altogether prepare the answers in the language the subject is taught, it is Ok.

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to plan the process of classroom activities appropriately, practice lessons learned and identify best practices in your classroom to improve the followings.

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is important for each person express feelings in different languages

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil 

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I participated in Webinar 09/26/18
It was a fantastic experience with the exchange of experiences
This creation was very interesting
It is very important for students.

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It is very important for students to express their feelings in any language

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I think it would be very useful and interesting to allow students to talk and write different languages.

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In order to embrace linguistic diversity you need to provide a relaxed environment in which the students may work with no restriction of language, culture, skin color, religion, etc.

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It is important to let children use their mother tongue but in the same time is difficult because the teacher should be aware of the discussions in his class.

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I think that bringing all the students of a classroom to a "same level" may be possible by using a CLIL methodology. I believe that CLIL methodology implement what Nell's ideas. Thanks to CLIL, students learn subject in a foreign language , having concrete opportunities to put immediately into practice the new language skills acquired. Moreover  the integration of content and language puts the students in touch with languages without requiring more hours of lessons and put all of them at the same level.

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Classroom environment and linguistic diversity - Aija, Latvia

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Classroom environment and linguistic diversity - Aija, Latvia

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I would give them a task to deal with and only then allow to carry out the group work in their language.

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I will let them to teach each other, but first I will ask for the parents permission.

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It has own benefites but in any case teacher must know about all discussions in his class room. That's why, I think, teacher must try to use such moments as a great teaching instrument in educational process

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It has own benefites but in any case teacher must know about all discussions in his class room. That's why, I think, teacher must try to use such moments as a great teaching instrument in educational process

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USE of mother tongue should definitely be encourages as it is the most comfortable language for students to understand the cocepts but keeping in mind the importance of multilinguaism other languages shoyld be encouraged too.

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Use of own language make students comfortable in the environment of the class . It help them to share their views more effectively.

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Linguistic diversity is also important when it comes to understanding their own language.definitely knowing well your mother tongue is important.

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it will be very encouraging for them to speak in their own language. as they will be more quick and active.

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The students should be encouraged in speaking their home language no doubt but at the same time the teacher should understand what they are talking about to keep an eye on them. definitely knowing well your mother tongue is important.

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Linguistic diversity is also important when it comes to understanding their own language. they should their own language in a better way

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It would be good if we allow students to use their own language. but it is not possible.

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Yes i am agree if we want to involve the students in to any activities then it will be very useful to speak in their common language and this way they will act quickly and perform better

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Encouraging students to use their home language is crucial so they can connect their target language to it and making them more aware of the differences and how they can use it communicate with people around.

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Emphasizing linguistic diversity makes children more responsible and protagonists of their learning. However, it requires a great effort by teacher who must overcomes the limits imposed by the program, the schedules, the opposition of some parents and even the scepticism of some colleagues sometimes.

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I think that nell's ideas are very good, but in my opinion, they has to be applied which children. intros way they begin thinking that their language may be used has school language. since they are still very young , they will use the language in the way asked from the teacher. If they learn to behave in this way they will be able to apply it even when they will be older

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It often happens more often to have foreign students of different backgrounds who do not have the same attitude towards foreign languages.
I happen to have French-speaking Arabs who want to teach some words in Arabic to their classmates.
Or even Chinese who speak a few words of English and who agree to teach some grapheme and some Chinese words to others. In the past years I've had Russians etc. and what has emerged is that children have an innate tendency to tension, the need to communicate with everyone.
The evident benefits of having a good ability to interact in a multi-ethnic and multiracial society range from improving the ability to interact to the improvement of the ability to collaborate ... to mutual recognition.

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I think that means to empower students, giving them trust and courage. We could put one-two pupils who talk the same language in a team... They will have to explain all they talk, read or work in their own language.

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I would like to tell my students about the importance of multilingualism and then would ask them to prepare a debate on any topic and in any language be it be english hindi french etc.. i wold also ask my students to teach their classmates in their language.

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It would be wonderful if we could enable students to use their own languages but... in Italy, in high grade schools this is not possible, not now. I understand the added value of this opportunity but our rules cannot permit to "loose time"

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GREETINGS - I would ask my  multilingual students to teach their classmates a greeting in their home language. Develop a routine whereby, at the start of the day, you greet your students in the school language, and then in each of their home languages, with the whole class responding to the series of greetings accordingly. Do the same to say goodbye at the end of the school day.

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Mandeep
It is a very good idea, first we can implement on
Two three pupils in the class and then introduce
And implement on all students .

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I think that means to empower students, giving them trust and courage. We could put one-two pupils who talk the same language in a team... They will have to explain all they talk, read or work in their own language.

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I like idea of planning a meaningful activity with the pupils speaking a common language of pupils belonging to a common place coz in that manner they will be able to understand each other better and by default, perform better

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It is possible to let them use their language in controlled activities where they can share some common and simple expressions that can be easily translated with the help of internet.

It is also possible to allow them to study some topics in their language but if they were asked any questions they should be able to answer in the language used at school.

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I love to hear students compare and contrast how the language we're learning (French) relates to the other languages we know. I have a concern that certain groups do not assimilate so well and try to get some whole-class involvement when they speak L1. To that end I think there is a balance to be found.

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Allowing children to use their languages and celebrating their cultures are important aspects of what we could do to create a positive environment for linguistic diversity at school.

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Yes I'm agree , I also think that if we want to involve the students into any activity then it will be very useful to speak in their common language. In this way they will act quickly and will perform better.

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A very good ideea which it can be implemented in small groups first and then extended to large ones

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There are a number of very powerful reasons why the use of the students’ own language in the language classroom should not only be tolerated, but, at times, actively encouraged. Learning is, by definition, built upon previous learning, and the most significant resource that learners can bring to the language learning task is their existing linguistic knowledge – a substantial portion of which consists of knowledge about their own language. Learning is scaffolded, and, especially in the early stages of learning another language, it will be scaffolded, in part, on the language(s) they already know.

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I only teach students of the same country, Romania. They use the English language in the classroom, but they also use their mother tongue. I think Nell's ideas are great and I will try to adapt them to my context.

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I thank Nells is an excellent teacher. She involve myself next to my pupils is a good challenge

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main challenges come in the group activities as if different speakers will try to put into different words. for this bilingual is a better option.

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I think Nell's ideas are excellent. Involve myself next to my  pupils is a good challenge

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From my point of view this seems like a nice idea and would be nice to do in the classroom but I do not know if feasible and compable by the class group

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As she points out: "Enable students to use their home language as a direct resource for learning is -powerful learning environment," and I find it very useful if socio-emotional and cognitive aspects of learning have to be on the same page of readiness for welcoming the NEW food for the soul and life. As a professional I have to see what is the best and more comfortable for them, I am not the priority, although I do not have understanding of what they say. Good said that language should not be only for home situations. I would incorporate meaningful multilingual activities.

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Given that in some educational settings such as schools, there is not always the possibility that children use their native language in class, Nell's views can be seen as a challenge. Also, some educators are at times not ready to engage with diversity of languages and prefer to stick to only one. In the classroom I at times provide students with tasks where they have to collaborate together. I group them in mixed language speakers and I am always amazed how they still manage to communicate and complete the given task. I think that this proves that the usage of language diversity in the classroom provides children the opportunity to find different means of communication and encourages inclusion as well.

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Offering the possibility to use their native language may be a way to get students closer to the language teacher are trying to teach. Teachers can do this by making parallels between the two languages and the students to take the role of a ”teacher”

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In my context I can plan an activity which students of the same country can do together. I can find words of mya activity in different languages. Although it is not simple to plan an activity for all linguistic diversity.    

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In my context I can plan an activity which students of the same country can do together. I can find words of mya activity in different languages. Although it is not simple to plan an activity for all linguistic diversity.    

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When allowing students to speak their home languages e.g. during group work, it is advisable to create the conditions for students to stay on-task. However, this is also true for group work in the language of instruction. For example, students can be given a well defined role within the group. One role could be the "interpreter" who can tell the teacher about the progress the group is making and the questions they might have.

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I feel that it is not so easy to establish a classroom environment that embraces linguistic diversity. But if teachers have a more practical training on how to handle such situations it would be much easier for every member of the school to function effectively.

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Yes, of course, I'm curious about other languages and I feel comfortable if students speak in languages I don' understand. The most important thing is to understand their goal: helping each other, relaxing, better understanding... this is very positive, but if it's a matter of laziness and making fun of other people, than it's not so positive, so I think that a wise teacher should clearly explain language rules in the class, letting students understand why we need some rules.
By the way I have a trick: I'm trying to learn some few words in different language every time, so that if children speak in they langua I surprise them with a couple of words and if they are saying something with negative purpose... then they get worried I can understand and they stop, otherwise we laugh together!

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Nell's ideas about turning your classroom into a language-embracing environment could prove to be the guidelines of an engaging PBL project to implement in my own classroom. 1. Allowing children to use their languages
2. Celebrating their languages and their cultures
3. Enabling children to use their languages as a didactic resource

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Deal with different languages in class is fantastic for us and for our students. However we us teacher should establish how to use them. Speak in different languages in math for example it could be a mess if everybody does not have the same level of management of those languages. so we could establish days or moments along the day or the week, to use all the languages we deal with in our class.

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I feel quite odd when my learners speak in their language and I do not understand a word. But they usually translate what they say. I use texts about their culture, different texts and there they meet terms and words they know. We also like to hear how some phrases sound in the native tongue of my Japanese or Arabian students.They are one of each. When there are more, they work in teams for projects.

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Establishing a classroom environment that embraces linguistic diversity means to allow and to promote students of foreing countries to interact with othera sharing they experiences, to talk of their own contries...in that way there is a mutual recognition

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Establishing a classroom environment that embra

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I agree with Emilia from Poland, as feedback is very important!

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It could be interesting to hear different languages during the lesson. However, teacher must be prepare how to give the right feedback. It must be well thought out.

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Last year there was a romanian student with lots of difficulties into Italian. I thought to join him in an Etwinning project with a Romanian school, so that he translates into rumenian what other Italian students want to say. It was an excellent idea that involved a lot my students and helped him to have more touches with their classmates and also with italian and english.

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RACHNA,INDIA
a teacher having multilingual class will give a opportunity to teacher to involve students into many activities like come with different posters. in other activities of school there will be more open environment for students.

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I think it would be very useful and interesting to allow students to talk and write different languages, for example presenting themselves or illustrating their cities or their eating habits ; but I also guess that is necessary the teacher studies the basic elements of the new language in order to understand what the students are actually saying. Moreover they can use tools such as simultaneous translaters and cultural mediators, where present.

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Oh yes :(
Last year we had two Moroccan students and nobody in our center speaks the Arabic language. I do not feel uncomfortable beacuse I respect their linguistic wealth although, truthfully, we did not understand anything.

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Usually I ask my student to translate what I say only if necessary . I’ve never thought to let them speak in their mother tongue language. I think it’s a very interesting idea!

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Odete Teixeira, Arouca, Aveiro, Portugal

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Odete Teixeira, Arouca, Aveiro, Portugal

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Nell called it “the simple first step”: allow the students to use their home language as a didactive resource for learning. I’ve never considered that strategy! The school language doesn’t have to be the only one to be used. This is very important because they feel their language is welcome, especially if we give them a positive feedback about the use. The goal is a powerful learning environment and their “home language” is a valuable resource. Why not? Students can read texts about a certain topic in different languages. It involves of course some research and planning on the part of the teacher. I also liked Nell’s suggestion: when we have two students speaking another language, they can plan an activity together, creating meaningful activities. Their language as a school resource!

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I think Nell'idea is ok.The children will be able to understand even if they don't speak the same language.

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I like Nell's ideas.I don't think it will be a problem if students speak in their own language.Kids understand very well each other even when they don't speak the same language.

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IRENE – GUARDA, PORTUGAL             I think that it can be a problem to use the languages that our students speak… if we don’t know them!I speak several languages, but my students only speak Portuguese, English and Spanish or French. So, what I try to do is to allow them to use English or French to express some ideas in my Portuguese classes, the same way I let them use Portuguese to express some ideas in my Spanish or French classes. It helps them to express their feelings, their ideas, their thoughts. And it’s curious that, for all of them, it’s refreshing to be able to do that.This way, all of the students feel that what they know matters, that their knowledge is recognized… and they feel more motivate to the teaching and learning process.At the same time, they feel it easier to talk about their culture and other cultures, to express themselves in the classroom.

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IRENE – GUARDA, PORTUGAL             I think that it can be a problem to use the languages that our students speak… if we don’t know them!I speak several languages, but my students only speak Portuguese, English and Spanish or French. So, what I try to do is to allow them to use English or French to express some ideas in my Portuguese classes, the same way I let them use Portuguese to express some ideas in my Spanish or French classes. It helps them to express their feelings, their ideas, their thoughts. And it’s curious that, for all of them, it’s refreshing to be able to do that.This way, all of the students feel that what they know matters, that their knowledge is recognized… and they feel more motivate to the teaching and learning process.At the same time, they feel it easier to talk about their culture and other cultures, to express themselves in the classroom.

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I love hearing kids speaking their own language. I did this kind of stuff teaching about cpmmunications-parts and difficulties.

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I agree with Nell's idea. i want to use her ideas in my class room so that they can learn new language but the problem is if the students are speaking different languages they won't be able to understand

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I think it's a beautiful idea that I never thought of saying openly that they are free to speak their language to each other. Maybe because I have not had an opportunity or maybe if I had talked about the guys would have been encouraged to do it. Another thing that I will certainly do is to let the pupils find their own language materials and maybe they could also introduce them to their classmates and share all the material they found together. Often in one language there are more things than in another. It would undoubtedly be an enrichment for everyone.

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Although would be no easy if we don't speak languages of our students, planning multilingual activities is the best way to create a powerful learning environmental.

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It can be a problem if we do not speak the same language with our students but it can be solved by using different methods.We can talk about the importance of every student's culture and language with the other students.

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In an environment where there is a diversity of languages, students' scenario skills will be increased, and students in the future will have different languages. In fact, this is an opportunity not to be missed for our students and our cultural riches.

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I like to have my lesson under control. It is a big step to allow students to use their own language during classes especially when I don't understand a word. It can be helpful but sometimes it can cause some problems for the teacher.

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The idea to use the different mother language is good, but this activities have to manage for reach same goal. For example it happened to me to prepare a multilinguistic dictionary overall during the history o geographic lessons.  The dictionary worked well for two mains reasons. The first: the build dictionary  is a way to valorise the different cultures and to grow up the students’ self confidence. The second one: to reflect on the multilinguistic dictionary is a way to overturn the role among the students because all begin learning.

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In my opinion every student should speak the same language of his teacher and mates. We all should understand  what it's said in the classroom and we all should interact with each others. Perhaps if there are groups of students of different languages they can use their original language in specific activityes but at the end the ought to use the language of their mates

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In my opinion every student should speak the same language of his teacher and mates. We all should understand  what it's said in the classroom and we all should interact with each others. Perhaps if there are groups of students of different languages they can use their original language in specific activityes but at the end the ought to use the language of their mates

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I am comfortable allowing a group of students to talk in their own language during a lesson because it can very  useful for beginners.

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What Nell suggests is really interesting but it also poses challenges for teachers and learners. My classes are made up of students from different regions in Italy and from different countries as well. The language of schooling is Italian and two foreign languages are taught: English and French or English and Spanish. Some of our students come from Africa and Asia, the newly arrived ones sometimes don’t speak Italian and have little knowledge of other European languages (mainly English or French) so communication gets difficult. I must admit that we have never thought of allowing our foreign students to use their language in the classroom but we have planned lessons to make them feel at ease with their classmates with group activities where everyone has to introduce themselves and their families also drawing if proper words are not known or where pupils have to make something practical like cooking dishes (this is a context where foreign students can point a tool or ingredient, say the related word in their language and the Italian students can tell them the translation into Italian, in this situation more languages can be used). Sometimes we (it depends on the group of teachers) also ask foreign students to teach their classmates basic words and expressions of their languages.

This year we have a pupil in the first form that speaks only Indian (and just a few words of English). She is willing to learn and we are thinking about a set of activities to make her feel part of the class. We have realized she has the potential skills to succeed this school year but the language is an obstacle. The fact of giving her material in their own language is a good suggestion, we need then someone who can translate into Italian what the pupil produces for example for lessons like Food Science, Biology…. Anyway the colleague that teaches Italian still has the problem of how to assess her, should the teacher assess her progress in the Italian language taking into account she starts from the basics? But the school is an upper secondary one not a primary school. We will have to think about it and find a solution. Any hints?

The fact that we mainly use Italian, apart from the foreign languages taught at school, is that if we want our foreign students to integrate we have to help them learn our language not only because they need it at school but because they need it in everyday life, This doesn’t mean we don’t want to take into account their language and the culture related to it

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If the teacher is prepared for the lesson, so it won't be a problem. Students can share their culture, basic vocabulary with others.

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Yes it can be a problem if we don't know the language of our student but it can be solved if proper methods are used like as a teacher it is our responsibility  to make students comfortable and for that we need to come prepare in classroom by learning their languages.We can start with vocabulary words and encourage our students to enhance their knowledge.we can teach other students about the importance of every student's culture and language so that they can see that their language is also valuable and thus can build healthy relationship with each other.

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That doesn't sound like a problem to me. I think that it is a very good advice to enable students to use their mother tongue to work in group, discover vocabulary words or information that are very important to the topic and share what they have found with the whole class. In this way, all students get used to listen to different languages and appreciate the differences.

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I have a Brazillian boy in my class this year and unfortunately his English so poor even to spell his school's name. At the very beginning of the year he was so alone and in class he never spoke. I let him say the answers in his mother tongue even no one can understand a word (we tried to get the meaning with the common vocabulary) but he started to attend the class and by this way I encourage him to gain his self esteem again. So sometimes it works..

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It depends....
For example in one of my classes I have just one Chinese girl and nobody knows Chinese. So she has nobody to talk to in Chinese! It can be a possibility if there are at least two pupils speaking the same language or if at least  the teacher can speak this language. In these cases it can be possible , for example, a sort of simultaneous translation: a pupil presents a work in his /her language and the other(s) translate into the language needed.