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I am completely new to this concept and I am very excited to learn more about it. I think it is very useful!!!

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I am completely new to this concept and I am very excited to learn more about it. I think it is very useful!!!

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In my country very foreign languages aren teached and sproken like me for example ı'm german teacher in a high school and very people from surıan lives in my countary and speak arabish and also english and turkish too. the children can be also my students too.

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I had never heard of this methodology before.
It is undoubtedly a useful method when there are different ethnicities in the classroom

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This new teaching technique is new to me.
It seems interesting but I have to learn more. As for other idea, I am sure it is going to give me some useful suggestions for my work.

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What is HLD? I never heard this model, and I am thankful to this course, because now I know that it could be interesting for our classes, especially in this period, when foreign students are in our schools.

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it's the first time I've heard of The Healthy Linguistic Diet model, I find it very interesting.

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I have never heard about HLD model before. It seems quite interesting and motivating for multilingual classes. Thanks for this course, I'll study this model further and try in my teaching experience. I think I can use this model as there are several foreign students at my school.

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I was totally unaware of the "Healthy linguistic Diet" but during my 20 years of teaching I've always been interested in enhancing the presence of children and families with different languages and culture: I've involved some mothers from Poland and Morocco in class in order to give my pupils and me some information about their culture and teach simple songs and rhimes; in addition to it, I use the eTwinning platform to plan projects among foreign schools so, whatever the topics are, we always involve elements from the culture and language of the classes involved. My pupils are always extremely interested and curious about this issue, I'll be certainly deepen the HLD issue.

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It's the first time I've heard of the HLD model, but it makes sense. All the schools I've worked so far hardly had diversity at all, in terms of nationality and language. The region where I live hardly has inmigration, compared to the rest of Spain. But the world and societies walk in that direction. So we can't be unaware! In fact, so far I've had the feeling, the school has worked as just the opposite,in some sense, the tool that has made us all the same, which can be good. But not in this case. I bet the school in many cases has made us all speak English, has made us all use uniform,and so on, so we look alike, speak alike... I mean, things have been tradicionally like this. But this needs a change. Nowadays teachers should put into value the difference, make it obvious within the class and appreciate it. So that many students feel they fit, no matter their origins, and are important to the new community thanks to those origins, so the rest can learn new things from new places, cultures, etc. I hope to be able to put all this into practice.

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HLD is new to me. But reading in the various articles and researches of this new approach, I was very intrigued and I can't wait to be able to learn more about it.

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COOKING LAB WITH ENGLISH- POLISH AND ITALIAN RECIPE OF TYPICAL BISCUITS: "BUSLENEIN " . INCLUSIVE ACTIVITY WITH AN ERASMUS GROUP OF POLISH STUDENTS.

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Wonderful TO SEE  NEW GENERATIONS CO-WORKING  and CO-LEARNING through HDL. In our school we are familar with this methodolgy, cause there are lots of pupils from different countries and also we have Erasmus Projects and we are an eTwinning school. So our students INTERACT with a positive and constructive  approach to their different cultures , languagues, tastes building  new bridges and opening their minds to international horizons. HDL is a great opportunity also for teachers!

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I wish this idea had been around when I was at school! I went to school and high school in rural Australia in the 80s and 90s, and always loved languages but never had a chance to learn them at school as it wasn;t an essential part of the curriculum for us then. I think it's so important and I'm glad my kids are learning other languages at school.

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C. PRESENT, Martinique FWI     -       I just transferred to a new school, and I think there will be a lot of cultural diversity there. So I will then be able to try this approach which is new for me and very interesting. 

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C. PRESENT, Martinique FWI     -       I just transferred to a new school, and I think there will be a lot of cultural diversity there. So I will then be able to try this approach which is new for me and very interesting. 

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HDL is something I will definitely explore. I think it is a very good approach.

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HDL is new for me. I need time to learn, but it seems to be an interesting approach. Thank you for sharing!

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HLD seems a very interesting approach for learning languages and keep a healthy brain condition. As Science teacher in a High School (Clasiical, Linguistic and Human Science) that deals at the same time with health education (importance of the movement and the food diet to mantain a sustainable quality of life) and the use of L2 (English and hopefully  German in the future) in CLIL lesson, I think that HLD could be a useful model in which the  enphasis on the brain and cognitive healthcare could be a further motivation in studing Science contents and Languages  in a plurilingual perspective.

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There is no need to say how important is being able to speak the language of your ancestors at home and openly in the public. Excepting the mother tongue of the individual is excepting the individual as a human being and is crucial to recognise this in the schools. Language is a value, languages are enriching our look on the world arround us.

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Lucia Caruso, "IC Leonardo Sciascia", Misterbianco CT

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Lucia Caruso, "IC Leonardo Sciascia", Misterbianco CT

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I've never heard about this model before. I need time to read all the provided reading material and learn more about it before I can say how I could apply it to my school context. But, as far as I'm concerned, I can say that we should increase the number of opportunities for language and cultural exchanges from elementary school level upward through for example systematic twinning which might embrace more than two schools.

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I didn't know this model, although when I have a foreign student I ask them to say a few words in their language. This makes them feel better, it's their turn to teach us something,
I think this model is very interesting and allows foreign students to "show themselves" and we can show the other students in the class that it's not so easy to be in a country with a sometimes very different language and have to learn our language.  Também é muito importante, os alunos terem consciência de que temos de viver, cada vez mais, num mundo onde o multilinguismo é essencial

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Alice, Portugal - The healthy linguistic diet model

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Alice, Portugal - The healthy linguistic diet model

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There is a widespread and often implicit tendency to consider monolingualism as

the default state of individuals and societies. Multilingualism is considered in this context as a burden, posing challenges particularly to the education system.
As I don't know this concept - The Healthy Linguistic Diet model - very well and every year we have students from other countries that come to my school and they need to learn portuguese and at the same time english I would like to learn more about it.

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Prior to this first year in Italy, I had only heard about translanguaging but had never had any real experience with it. I am teaching at a European School and we are putting this model into practice; in fact, our schools are based on it and were established on this principle. I suddenly feel very lucky.  I am coming from having taught in Lavia for four years and though society there is largely multilingual, it happened as a result of forced political aggression and with the active threats against the Baltics and the Russian aggression/war in Ukraine, there is a growing tendency to strengthen our national reserves, including culture and language. Also, I myself was born and educated in the US, where monolingualism is the norm and there is active pushback against people daring to speak in other languages in public. I whole-heartedly applaud and feel fortunate to be a part of this education system and the European turning of the tide, leading the way for acceptance of multilingualism and pluralinguilism and recognizing that monolingualism and/or globalization of one language creates a dominance that is unwarranted. This should be the norm in all educational institutions.

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Antonella Sellia- ICS "V.Vivaldi", Catanzaro (Italy)

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Antonella Sellia- ICS "V.Vivaldi", Catanzaro (Italy)

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I'm really honoured to have been one of the teachers of the three schools selected for the pilot project "HLD in Italy". I had the opportunity to get in touch with the Healthy Linguistic Diet concept for the first time and to apply what I've learnt in the last two years in three of my six classes with children from 11 to 14.  Our students with different home languages were the protagonists of the learning process in all its steps and we all had a meaningful experience, leaning such important values as respect for people with different cultural backgrounds, the great dignity of all languages, the importance of intercultural dialogue. This project has represented more than a learning methodology. It has been a precious occasion to reflect on our attitude towards non native speakers in our classes. HLD has empowered them and has changed our teaching and learning routines, deepening and widening our perspectives in school education.  In a plurilingual classroom, as well as in a multicultural society, no one must be left behind!

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I am completely new to this concept and I am very excited to learn more about it. I think it is very useful!!!

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I am new to this!!
Have to learn more about it. So Thank you! A new challenge.

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I am completely new to this model and 'ìm going to learn more about it in next days.
Thanks to Letizia for this precious suggestion

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I am familiar with the concept of HLD. It was also very amazing seeing students work and engagement in the pictures. We have student which are from different parts of the world. Valuing there culture and language, using different activities to reflect this also important for overall feeling in the classroom

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I am new to HDL but I do find it very appealing and looking forward to learn more and start using it!

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I work in an international school and one of the great pleasures of the job is hearing kids helping each other to understand different concepts in English.

However, we also had great fun with the kids teaching others something short in their own language- a short rhyme, counting to ten, a saying. I could see how it made the kids feel empowered, that they knew something which they could share with others.

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Thank you: you’ve facilitated my first introduction to the HLD model, and it has been groundbreaking! 😊

From the recognition of the role of multilingualism in intellectual development and mental health, to the idea that the speaker is freed from the native-like language acquisition, or even the perspective that migrants might be looked at as added value instead of a “problem”, though simple or maybe even obvious ideas, can be, at the same time, revolutionary. At least, they are for me.

From students to teachers, from parents to school staff, I can see lots of contexts to implement this model, trying to step away from the dangers of the “single story” and helping everyone take care of their own health. Several ways to share the multiple languages/cultures that inhabit our school have come to mind, I hope I can make one of them clear in my lesson plan…

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I am just entering the idea of a HLD but I am aware that today we are living in classes with so many differences among students and thus learning and speaking different languages can help us understand the others. I am learning more about it and I will think about HLD in my daily activities.

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I have few students who speaks Italian not very good, because their parents always use their nativ language and don't speak Italian. I woul like to help these students.
i'm very interested in this model beacause I think It could be useful.

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We are increasingly living in a multicultural and therefore multilingual society. For all of us to share and enjoy equal opportunities, effective communication is essential. As a teacher, communication is the key for a good job, so linguistic diversity should be seen as something that generates innovation and growth and not as a problem. The Healthy Language Diet model is another opportunity/tool to overcome dificulties and improve integration and learning. It is not always easy, but the result is very satisfying.

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This is my first approach to HLD model. We don't have to forget the difference between being bilingual o being billiterate, which means that you can use the language, but you're not fully bilingual. In my opinion, students' background is a key condition to acquire a new language. Unfortunately, in my last 5 years as a teacher, I didnt' have the opportunity to practice my previous knowledge, because my school was placed in a very close neighbourhood with no immigrant students. My students' weren't very interested in learning other languages, so my coworkers and I had to make so many adjustments to teach foreign languages in an engaging way.

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When I was taking my Teacher Training Course, one of the mandatory activities was to enroll in a L2 class.

Since we speak Spanish, it was forbidden to take a Romance language class.

So I enrolled in German and Hebrew classes. I should tell that it was a very interesting experience.

I understood and was make aware of some of the particularities of both languages, but above all; I understood the purpose of taking these classes.

I became aware of the difficulties that students who are learning a foreign language go through and how we must be sensitive and empathetic so as not to frustrate and demotivate them, but to make them feel safe and trust that they are able to communicate in the target language.

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Linguistic diversity offer oportunities for students to use different languages in schools. in my school we works in Erasmus+ and eTwinning projects where colaborative activities are important.

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In my high school we have three languages and most of my students speak them in a quite communicate way.However, I have never heard about this approach and I would like to know more about it.

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We have so many students in my school who were born in Italy but whose families come from other countries. So we are Multilingual but not yet plurilingual.
I need to deepen my knowledge about this new approach and I am interested to learn more.

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I work as an English teacher in a technological high school in an urban area, Năvodari, Romania, nearby the Black Sea Coast. Our school encourages multilinguism, as besides English and French, we do have two other optional courses for our students, German and Russian. There are students who opt for a third language or even for the forth language. We do have also students of Russian ethnicity, therefore they also opt for Russian language as well.
Searching the internet I also found this site I would like to share with you.
https://www.wamcam.org/
HLD model is not only a way to approach different and unknown languages. It gives you the chance to broaden your point of view on your and others’ culture.

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WAM arises out of the work on multilingual identity carried out by the Education Strand of the MEITS project (Multilingualism Empowering Individuals Transforming Societies).

Visit our main site here www.meits.org

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We Are Multilingual | Secondary School Language Learning Materials

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Our vision at wamcam.org is to encourage everyone to recognise the languages they have and be able to say: " We Are Multilingual " We Are Multilingual | Secondary School Language Learning Materials and Teaching Resources for French German and Spanish lessons (more languages to follow soon)

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As a teacher of I.C. Vivaldi Catanzaro school,
I’ve had the privilege of adopting HLD model in my class. I teach at the pre-primary school and I’ve worked on the project during the last two years, with five and three year old children. It was a very important opportunity for both teachers and students. HLD model is not only a way to approach different and unknown languages. It gives you the chance to broaden your point of view on your and others’ culture. Plurilingualism pedagogy represents the occasion to reflect and foster the idea of a global society, where Humans are at the center, and everyone can feel welcomed and respected in one’s own Identity.
Silvana Ferrari

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The Healthy Linguistic Diet is for certain something relevant for everyone: its benefits should encourage each individual to learn and use more than one language, as a way to prevent mental deterioration.
As a teacher, when I am at school I am always interested and curious about my student's home languages. Sometimes I ask them to write some words on the blackboard and then we all look for a translation in Italian first and in English later. I think it's a way to familiarise with other cultures. This should train students to open their minds.

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I work with groups of adults with different backgrounds and mother tongues. On several occasions, I have involved students' languages when asking for the way a particular word or expression is said in their languages. My intention is to compare and find similarities that may help them to make sense and remember the new vocabulary. The samples provided in the course to orientate and show ways of implementing plurilingual practices in the classroom (Learning scenarios), have given me ideas of how to apply the principles of the HLD model in a more consistent and integrated way.

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this model is  something new to me, because in my school we haven't had a great variety of languages so far, but things are going to change so I think it is important, as a school , to be prepared.
Linguistic diversity is something everyone should benefit from!

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I think that it is really important to acknowledge and promote linguistic diversity in our classroom.
Considering the school contexts where I taught during these three years (I'm a special ed. Teacher), three different Secondary Schools in Milan and near Milan, I think that it would be crucial to develop subject teachers' awareness about this topic. Lessons are often "conducted" using only one language, Italian, the target language spoken by the majority of the students and teachers as their L1. All teachers, especially pre-primary, primary and secondary teachers,  should become aware of the value of code-switching, translaguaging, code-mixing and translation activities.
Maybe some of the key-concepts developed and analysed by socio-linguists nowdays, might become part of every teacher's toolbox.
Having said that, I think that the acceptance and the adoption  of a HLD model in our classrooms, a model that allow to aknowledge the value of biligualism and pluringualism, is necessary and it can be integrated in every other teaching metodology: traditional lessons, Experential Based learning, cooperative learning, CLIL lessons, debates, etc.
I also think that Italian Schools should also offer some extra-courses that allow students with different linguistic and cultural backgrounds to develop their linguistic competences, studying their "standard L1", especially considering extra-european languages.
These courses would give these students the opportunity to become more proficient in their L1, ensuring and enhancing their linguistic competence with huge cognitive advantages. At the same time, they might be also attended by their italian classmates and teachers, promoting linguistic and intercultural competences.

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5 languages are taught in my school, but more can be done as real tangible practices are implemented as far as healthy language diet is concerned.

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I didn't know the "Healthy Diet Model" but I find it very interesting. As I see it, it is a very powerful strategy to get children attention and also, to get a more significant learning for my students because it makes them important (as a teacher it is very important to take in account their needs and interests). By this way, children get to know and realise that multilingualism and multiculturalism exist what allow them to develop many principles such as respect or empathy.

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I like this Healthy Linguistic Diet model. I think that reflecting on it will help me with my job.

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As a teacher of English Language and Culture I have always encouraged linguistic diversity. All languages can enrich our world, our society, our way of looking at ourselves and others. This is not a new vision but something that has always existed and that some of us have always fostered and encouraged. Nowadays with migration fluxes it has become paramount to consciously consider a pedagogy which should take into account this and other multilingual approaches.

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I'm not experienced in the "Healthy Linguistic Diet model", but I am very interested in. At our school during European Day of Languages activities my students learn to say some words in other languages. One of our goals is the raising awareness of the importance of language learning and the diversity of different languages.

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The HLDM is a new concept to me. I will have to make a deeper research about it and only after that, will I feel more comfortable to talk about it. But, from what I have learnt until now, it's mandatory that a new approach concerning multiculturalism/ plurilingualism is introduced in schools. I just have a few students that came from Venezuela and it has not been easy to teach them English. We really need to provide them a better integration, so that everything gets easier to them. Some of the suggestions given in this course seem quite intertesting. I will probably start by the Babel Tower Day with a few changes, of course.

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New globetrotters.

I think it’s very interesting for students to understand how emigrants can feel. Here some foreign students from my junior high school tried to know emotions of newcomers. This was an activity in an eTwinning project 17/18. Students use English as a vehicle language but they are from different countries and they have different cultures.

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Emigrants' Diaries etwinning project

NEW GLOBETROTTERS: Let us know our cultures

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This model is new to me and I have a lot to learn. In my school there are some foreign students and integration is one of the aim of our curriculum. I am Erasmus+ Ambassador in Italy and eTwinning projects can help students to learn more about other European or world countries. Collaborative activities created for the projects are important when languages and other traditions are shared among participants. One year, during European Day of Languages activities my students learnt to say some sentences in Greek and viceversa... it was really fun but it was a way to share, accept, understand... Here is one of the videos...
https://youtu.be/jNLLiwNhwV4

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My school context is not that diverse, but we do have some migrant students, even though most of them come from countries sharing the same L1.

Preventing languages from dying in this globalised world is a daunting task. But I think languages and even dialects should be passed on to the new generations, since  they convey some cultural aspects that make us unique, such as idioms and phrases that are common just in a particular region or lifestyle.

If students learn a new language or some phrases for fun, to be excentric or have an interesting topic in conversations, to broaden their horizons and thus become world citizens, all these reasons are valid and help preserve some part of our culture from extinction.

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I'm not an expert in the "Healthy Linguistic Diet model", but in the first year of school we learned to sing "Happy Birthday" in all the languages spoken in class by non-natives.
I am very interested in this model which I think is very useful!

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The multiple realities and experiences are undoubtedly an asset for learning. No context should be devalued, but the exchange of knowledge should be privileged, even if in multiple languages and/or languages. The secret of success is, without a doubt, sharing.
In an Erasmus+ experience, a colleague had been doing it for years and we were challenged to sing happy birthday, each one in their own language. It was so much fun, motivating and exciting. To repeat, with the students...

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Linguistic diversity is a benefit and we should offer opportunities for the use of different languages in schools. We should support bilingual students in developing positive attitudes and interest, for learning foreign languages.

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I am afraid the healthy linguistic diet model does not address issues like linguistic imperialism, hidden curriculum and globalisation; as a model it is promising but in foreign language research and teaching/learning practices things are not so "neat and tidy". Still I may try a couple of interesting ideas in my English classes.