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Being multilingual I consider myself rather language aware, although there is always place for improvement. I think it is very important to remember about the common underlying proficiency and to address it when working with the students whose mother tongue is different from school instruction language.

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first step is to know what we need and why we need.

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first step is to know what we need and why we need.

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To communicate

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For sure language awareness counts

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Yes, I do. Language awareness is very important for every teacher.

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I THİNK LANGUAGE

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yes, a lot.

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My answer is Yes, I do :)

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Language awareness is important to accept differences between people.If we are language aware than we are open minded.

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I think language awareness is something we should share with our collegues and transmit it to our students; using the L2 we should make our students more aware of thge importance of learning a foreign language.

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To answer the question: Yes, I do.

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Language awareness is very important so yo can undersndd

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I think The dame , very true The importante of The topic

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I think language awareness is very important. This is a project awarded the EQL which promotes the language awareness https://twinspace.etwinning.net/31794/home

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the language is important to create connections among students-teachers, teachers-teachers, students-students

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I don't consider myself language aware, because this is the first time I'm hearing about this term. After reading this introduction, I'm starting to see how important it is and I want to develop all aspects of my language awareness. I am looking forward to learning more about this topic just in case there ever is a need for it in my classroom.

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I think I need to share more experience due to this course and upgrade my activity kits

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Yes, now a days language awareness is very important as we have students Who speak different native languages. It will definitely help

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil 

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Learning a new language is very important and makes us more connected with the world in which we live connected.
There are several ways to learn, each has its own rhythm.
I have an autistic student with difficulty speaking, presents a very difficult diction to understand!
While teaching the letters of the alphabet, I am using a pot with flour

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Though my teaching field is preschool, I do feel like a language aware teacher because I have always been passionate about other languages. So I find it useful to use my multilingual skills in the modern teaching environment.

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it is important to be a language aware teacher because more and more of my students are speaking different native languages.

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I believe in this Modern and globalization world Language is very important in learning  and teaching. Today there are no classes in which only one language is spoken, language awareness is important for a teacher so that we can help student understand not only the subject we teach but also the change inn the world around us.

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Yes, it's absolutely important for students as well for teachers also as it makes diversity in learning process and so for language learning.

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Yes , language

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Yes, according to me it i very important to know multiple languages specially for teacher as there is different types of students in the class with different capabilities and sometimes language becomes the barrier of communication between a student and a teacher.

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Definitely being language aware is something that will give an edge in this world , in the times of globalization it is very important that one must know foreign language and not only this but also the culture

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This is very helpful as today world is multilingual.

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Yes according to me language aware teaching or teacher is important as she or he knows the concept very effectively and you can teach the children in a good manner, and if teacher is not language aware it difficult to tell students regarding particular subject..

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I’m teaching Spanish at the middle school and I think to be a careful teacher about the language awareness. However, I would like to discuss it further.

Teaching a foreign language is often an obstacle in the junior class, especially for not-Italian mother tongue students; so language awareness is above all important to help them to overcome this gap.

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Globalization is a wonderful fact of our lives today. And as teachers it is our duty to make our students ready for the world. one of the most important aspects of globalization is language diversity. therefore being a 'language-aware' teacher is very important.

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The given module is veryhelpf

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In modern world not only teachers  must be multutilingual. That's why we need to help our students understand how important this is. And, as for me, it's a great chanse to develop and to get new interesting experience which I can use in my work.

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I am mandeep kaur alias seerat. This course and
Module is very helpful.todays world is multilingual.
So this is very helpful .

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I am an Italian History and Literature teacher in vocational and technical schools, which are attended by many, even newly arrived, foreign students. Therefore I have a lot of experience in this field, but not as much language awareness yet, because I sometimes found it difficult to consider multilingualism as an asset. I think LA is very important and I still have much to learn in this respect, first of all I have to overcome the concern that teaching with LA might decrease the huge number of topics to cover during the school year

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I am a secondary school teacher in Philosophy and History. My point is that language awarness is very important for a teacher so you can help students understanding not only the subjects you teach but also the changes in the world around us. I'm definitely sure language is important both for students and teacher.

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I do agree with the fact that language awareness is important. Being multilingual plays a vital role in your life as a teacher. It’s really important to develop that comfort level or bond with your student so that he can grow as an individual. Formal education is important but embracing the informal way of communication gives you an extra edge where student can come out at best of his abilities.

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School language is different from the language spoken in the home and their parents have difficulties in helping them doing homework

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I am an English and French teacher. I think being LA is important not also in teaching foreign languages, but also in entire curricula, because we need to know each other with culture, traditions, routines.

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Sadly, I’m still not a teacher, so I can not analyze myself in regards to the implementation of actions to develop language awareness. Nevertheless, in my opinion, being a language-aware teacher, among other multiple benefits, is key to understand the needs of the students with different linguistic backgrounds and, having into account the common underlying proficiency, implement favorable strategies to help our pupils improve their linguistic competencies both in the language used in the school as well as in their other languages.

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language awareness is important for the acceptance of different cultures and developing thought process among the students

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Language Awareness issues include exploring the benefits that can be derived from developing a good knowledge about language, a conscious understanding of how languages work, of how people learn them and use them. If we develop a better understanding we become better language teachers.

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From my point of view, it’s important to learn a new language, but I prefer to study it deeply. Sometimes, other subjects are been teaching in English

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I think that it is very important for our students to learn other languages because we are living in a world that is in a big time of development, so we have to change and evolve with the world in which we are living now

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I think it is important for the boys to learn a second language well

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Hi! I teach English in a small village in Romania.There aren't any students coming to our school from other countries. Instead, we have children who have been left with their families abroad and who have studied in different European countries. (Italy, Spain, the UK). I think language awareness will help me to better understand their needs because I think it is important for them to develop both their language and social skills.

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In my country, the children as soon as they start school they immediately start learning both our national language, Maltese and the international language English. We also have children of different nationalities and although English is mostly used, we try to involve the different languages as well so that everybody feels welcome at school. I hope that through this course I will be able to learn more about different approaches which I can adopt in the classroom.

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In my opinion, the development of competence on two or more languages can result in higher level of metalinguistic awareness. These facilitate the acquisition of language by exploiting the cognitive mechanism underlying these processes of transfer and enhancement.

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I feel to be a language-aware teacher. Even if each language contains distinct surface features such as pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar, but underlying these surface features is a shared skill and a central operating system that is common across languages. When working in language diverse classrooms knowledge of the common underlying proficiency can help teachers communicating more effectively with students who do not speak the main language of instruction, and this is the reason why teachers should evaluate and enhance students’ knowledge of their mother tongue.

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Yes , it´s vital to make the student feel at ease. For me, it´s the starting point towards empathy and the preparation for a good soil for the teaching-learning process. Language awareness is then the ice-breaker for effective teaching and learning, so students an teachers are on the same page. Remember that language is the reflex of a culture, and the culture is the soul of the person. Cummins was an effective communicator when he exposed his ideas about BICS (Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills). On the other hand when he talks about CALP (Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency), I think he states the commitment teachers should have to enrich students language. Teachers should prepare students with key words for a topic to be exposed in class. Finally the common underlying proficiency, in my opinion refers to the linguistic universals too. For example, to admit that all languages have nouns and apply this principle to our teaching.

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I think that language awareness is an in progress condition that should “affect” teachers  throughout their daily school routine. I find Cummins’ insights really stimulating for my meta-teaching attitude. His concepts behind Language Awareness, BICS  and CALP and the   Proficiency “iceberg metaphor” or “Common Underlying Proficiency” are valuable ideas that help me reflect upon my students’ backgrounds and looking for solutions to adopt in my classroom.

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Hi! I am a teacher in a small city in Spain. I always have been the English teacher, however this year I´m the tutor and I have to teach maths and literacy too. At the beginning I didn´t think about LA, I thought being every of us Spanish speakers, it wouldn´t be a problem. My surprise it was when I realise, some of my students, could communicate in other language as a sign language or calé, quickly I understood how useful it would be to be LA, and to have better understanding of the different languages we could deal with in our class. Also Spanish speaker who are from south America, do not have the same way to speak Spanish than we have.

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Hi! I am a teacher in a small city in Spain. I always have been the English teacher, however this year I´m the tutor and I have to teach maths and literacy too. At the beginning I didn´t think about LA, I thought being every of us Spanish speakers, it wouldn´t be a problem. My surprise it was when I realise, some of my students, could communicate in other language as a sign language or calé, quickly I understood how useful it would be to be LA, and to have better understanding of the different languages we could deal with in our class. Also Spanish speaker who are from south America, do not have the same way to speak Spanish than we have.

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I think LA is very important in teaching. I am a French teacher and sometimes I have difficulties in explaining meanings in my students mother tongue.

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I am a teacher at a primary school of Greece. I believe that I am a language- aware teacher and I think that it is very important for knowing better your students and help them. Although, we need more practice in order to improve our skills.

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I am Francesca From Ischia and I tech in a high secondary school with a lot of students coming from other different countries. I think that I can't teach students without knowing their background and withou knowing the difficulties they could find in the development o acquire a seond language. I'm also aware not to have the right instruments to teach them in the right way,. That's why I'm following course. To understand much better the Language awareness.

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LA is important for the communication gap to be filled between students of different cultures.

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We are all full of awareness of the language but in practice there are difficulties in the management of the students, at least in some Italian schools.

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I think the fruitful exchange between native speakers of several languages ​​is fundamental

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I am an efl teacher and there are not students coming to our school from other countries. I strongly believe, though, that LA is significantly important for every teacher who wants to boost communication among students of different educational backgrounds and help them comfortable and confident within the school environment.

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I've worked in Istanbul for three years and my classroom was composed by italian and turkish children, but also by children coming from other parts of the world. When I arrived (and the situation is not very different now) I didn't speak one word of turkish and I wondered how I would have taught to them... 

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I've worked in Istanbul for three years and my classroom was composed by italian and turkish children, but also by children coming from other parts of the world. When I arrived (and the situation is not very different now) I didn't speak one word of turkish and I wondered how I would have taught to them... 

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What happened was that I had to think about my native language in a very different way, because for them it was actually a second language we used at school as a tool to learn every discipline of the curriculum. I tried to analyze their mistakes in order to define the development of their interlanguage, and to understand which difficulties they could have faced to learn some concepts (for example the fact a name can be male or female). I think I learned a lot from them because I was very curios about how they built phrases in their own language (turkish phrase structure is really different both from English and Italian languages). But not only this. I always asked them about the meaning of the words, the phrases, idioms, proverbs, cultural beliefs and so on. At the end of the third grade, when they achieved a language level comparable to B2, we made an Idiomatic phrases book, using all the spoken language in the classroom and divided by topics (for example whether, animals, body, etc) which represented a common cultural and linguistic treasure for us.
I think that language awareness for a teacher could be the capability to change her point of view, to listen, to make explicit what is not like that, to facilitate communication and exchange  among students.
For a student, language awareness could be the understanding of the value and the potential of a language, the richness of different shadows of meaning which makes any word in a different language a taste of its culture.

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I’m a Primary school teacher in Italy.

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I believe language awareness is a key point in learning and teaching nowadays. There are no classes in which only 1 language is spoken, we must change our way of teaching and be more language -aware.

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There are different forms of communication between people but language is the most effective way in which, when an idea is well expressed, it reaches the mind and the heart. The ability to communicate in several languages fosters the analysis and reflection of the ideas we want to communicate and that is something very valuable for the development of people regardless of their age

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I believe myself to be a language-aware teacher for the following reasons: I’ve been brought up as a bilingual person. I live and work in a country where my first two languages are not spoken, so I use my third/additional language for social and professional interactions. As a linguist, I’ve studied the three languages at a professional level, thus I have rather explicit knowledge of and about those languages. I’ve been teaching modern languages to non-native speakers for over a decade, thus I’m proficient in second language teaching and learning. I recon my personal experience along with professional knowledge and skills provide for being a person who is knowledgeable, conscious and sensitive in respect of language acquisition, development, and use. I think it’s important to be a language-aware teacher in order to enable learners develop their skills in both native and additional languages, which in turn would help them to gain general and/or professional knowledge and build up their social skills.

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I'm involved in clil teaching and language awarness is veryimporta

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I think to be quite aware. Language awareness is a very important quality or condition for teachers, especially language teachers like me. The language awareness helped me in the past with communication with new arrived foreign students.  Anyway, in the area where I teach there aren’t many students whose mother tongue isn’t Italian.

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It is very imprtant speaking and knowing a language because you can share information and meet many people

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Being a kintergarten teacher i think its important to be multilingual because students come from different backrounds and they know different languages and sometime they are unable to speak in the specific language i.e english which we use in classrooms, so i as a teacher to understand what are they saying should be able to talk or understand multiple languages

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Importance of language awareness    importance

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Importance of language awareness    importance

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Hi I am Aanchal from India. Yes,i feel like a language aware teacher. it's very important to communicate with the students. we can also help to improve their language proficiency.

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Hello i am Bhavika from India and yes as an alpha teacher i feel like a language aware teacher as being a language aware teacher one can communicate with their students and other people around whether socially or formally. With this we can try to improve the students language use and awareness as well.

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I am a teacher and I think it is very interestin

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hello  I am AYSUN from Istanbul.I work at a secondary school.I know the importance of the LA.However,I need to improve my skills in order to take advantage of  The LA.So I will never give up learning to  teach....

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hello  I am AYSUN from Istanbul.I work at a secondary school.I know the importance of the LA.However,I need to improve my skills in order to take advantage of  The LA.So I will never give up learning to  teach....

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Hi from Italy. I work in a lower secondary school. I enjoy the idea of considering the language diversity as a resource, rather than as a problem.

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Hi from Italy. I work in a lower secondary school. I enjoy the idea of considering the language diversity as a resource, rather than as a problem.

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IRENE – GUARDA, PORTUGALLike I said before, I consider myself a language-aware teacher and I believe that it’s very important to keep developing my practice as a mother language and a foreign language’s teacher. But I also believe that the possibility of sharing ideas and experiences with other colleagues is really interesting: from this share, we learn, we grow, we improve our practice.If a teacher, any teacher, is not language-aware, he will find more difficult to work with students that speak other language(s) but share the same classroom. It’s very important that a teacher has the conscience, the knowledge to profit from these differences in his classroom, even when this is not easy to accomplish this gold. From my point of view, it means that he has confidence in his work and in his capacities to motivate the students, to learn from them every day, to improve his skills as a teacher. I also believe that any student feels more confident when he sees that his teacher is confident enough to profit from other experiences, including the experiences of his own students: I strongly defend that this confidence, this trust, as a big impact in the teaching and learning process and brings many benefits to it.

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IRENE – GUARDA, PORTUGALLike I said before, I consider myself a language-aware teacher and I believe that it’s very important to keep developing my practice as a mother language and a foreign language’s teacher. But I also believe that the possibility of sharing ideas and experiences with other colleagues is really interesting: from this share, we learn, we grow, we improve our practice.If a teacher, any teacher, is not language-aware, he will find more difficult to work with students that speak other language(s) but share the same classroom. It’s very important that a teacher has the conscience, the knowledge to profit from these differences in his classroom, even when this is not easy to accomplish this gold. From my point of view, it means that he has confidence in his work and in his capacities to motivate the students, to learn from them every day, to improve his skills as a teacher. I also believe that any student feels more confident when he sees that his teacher is confident enough to profit from other experiences, including the experiences of his own students: I strongly defend that this confidence, this trust, as a big impact in the teaching and learning process and brings many benefits to it.

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LA helps the teacher understand the logic and the thoughts behind the students' words.

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I'm not perfoect at language awareness in my classes however I'm trying to be more awar, especially when I see that my students do not understand what I'm talking about (as I speak English and their mother tongue is Turkish), I use Basic Intercultural Communication Skills such as acting out what I'm talking about and I use mimics and gestures that they are familiar with in their mother language.

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I feel like a language-aware teacher, that is: I'm aware of the concept of language, what's behind language, I'm also aware of the processes languages I speak and understand and this is very important because this awareness helps me to become more and more aware of cognitive processes and learning strategies used by my learners whom language I don't know. And when I realize I'm missing something because I can't be useful for them, than I'm aware that I need to deepen my understanding in a particular language / culture in order to meet my learners' needs.

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I'm an English teacher at a secondary school in Germany. Many of my students come from different cultural and language backgrounds. In the foreign language classroom this can sometimes be helpful for my students and I would like to improve my classroom setups with regard to that fact.

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sınıfımda farklı dil konuşan öğrencilerim var ve ben onları kendi dilimizde eğitime yönlendirmek için neler yapabilirim merak duyuyorum. 2 dilli çocukların beni ne kadar iyi anladığını bilmek istiyorum ve onlara daha fazla yardım etmek istiyorum.

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sınıfımda farklı dil konuşan öğrencilerim var ve ben onları kendi dilimizde eğitime yönlendirmek için neler yapabilirim merak duyuyorum. 2 dilli çocukların beni ne kadar iyi anladığını bilmek istiyorum ve onlara daha fazla yardım etmek istiyorum.

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I work in mostly monolingual classes, but as a foreign language teacher I must be language aware. I understand that every student has his or her own strengths, everyone learns at his own speed and if the student has certain difficulties learning his mother tongue (e.g. logopedic issues) that will also affect his or her acquisition of the foreign language. As I work in monolingual classes I think that one of my tasks as a teacher should be showing the students that our society is actually multilingual.

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I have students who speak different languages in my class. My students have difficulty understanding some commands

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I have students who speak different languages in my class. My students have difficulty understanding some commands

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Language awareness is a crucial point as a teacher in French Guiana.
French Guiana is a French overseas territory located in South America. Among multiculturality and multi-lingualism of students are specificities we have to take into account in our teaching practices.

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Hi! I'm a science teacher in a high school. I'd like to improve my English skills; language awareness is important to comunicate in a global society. I hope to enjoy this course and learn as much as possible.

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I’m a high school teacher, I teach Science.

I think it's very important to know the English language because it's the official language of the research world. Therefore, you can access the materials without having to rely on translations that are not always correct. It's a bit like listening to a film in the original language, with the translation you lose the sense of some scenes

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Hi, I’m Maria and I’m a teacher in a lower secondary school. I teach technology and in the reality of the place where I work, there are few students coming from foreign countries. Nevertheless, I consider important to teach to my students that language awareness help them to underline their own abilities and bring out their own skills.
I would like to improve and develop my knowledge expecially about aspect of L. A. of language use. One of my goals for this school year is to put forward a CLIL activity with my students of the third year.

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language awareness is important to address to everyone. language awareness provides a lot of convenience in teaching and learning in the classroom. basically, language-conscious teachers will be closer to their students. As the student can explain himself, he can easily learn.

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Language awareness  is important for a better communication between the teacher and the student. Better explanations, better grades and excellent results.

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Words have the power to educate and enlarge human horizon.