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An enjoyable opportunity to learn different languages!

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I have own up that I ask my foreign pupils to try speaking in our language or English. But that's justified because none of other pupils Knows Chinese, Algerian, Bulgarian, etc...

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thank you

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I don't think there will be such a problem

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I've never experienced it before. but I don't think it's a problem for me.

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the children in our school are allowed to express themselves in their own language but unfortunately the staff are only allowed to speak in English because it is found as disrepect towards the directors as they only speak and understand english

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil 

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil 

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Here in Brazil there are not so many children from other languages grouped in our schools.
Some of our schools have bilinguals, but it is English and Spanish.
In schools offered by the government to teach English.

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil 

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Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brasil 

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I don't think there will be such a problem

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I've never personally experienced this... Sometimes it might be a good idea to let the students show their skills in their native language e.g. when writing essays. Naturally then you might need someone to translate the essay. ;)

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I always try to encourage students to speak English, but as I said before I always valorise their mother tongue,and sometimes I ask them to write a word in English and in their own language

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I have never experienced that, but I believe there are the ways how to enable kids to use their mother  tongue.  For example, Slav languages are similar .
Neverthless, if the languages are not similar picture dictionaty might help a lot.

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I agree with the collagues: students should be allowed to use a Language they know. I use English and German and I let them speak French and Spanish.

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Teachers should have some personal guidebooks to have lessons learned from their past experience and always share experience from colleagues, do online courses to share others experiences and ideas

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Each child must have an oportunity to use it's mother language. And each teacher must learn to use multilingualism as teaching resource but not something bad.Languages not only develop us, but also create us as new, better person

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Having in the classroom children who speak different languages, I think it is potential to exploit and make common heritage to the class, using it also in the lessons.

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using each mother language it is a way to increase communication and learn from each other

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Dina, Verona, Italy and born in Switzerland (St.Gallen)

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Dina, Verona, Italy and born in Switzerland (St.Gallen)

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My first experience in this sense I had it personally when I returned to Italy from Switzerland (I was born in Switzerland). In Switzerland, already in the years 1960-1970 there was a school for Italians. We were discriminated against by the population, but the school had the tools to help us. Returning to Italy I thought I would be very well. And instead ...
It was truly paradoxical. I returned to my homeland, of origin of my family, in the city of my parents and I HAVE BEEN TREATED AS A FOREIGNER! I could not say the words in German, every time I accidentally wrote them in the notebook, the teacher traced large red lines. My teacher could not bear the spelling errors given by the difference between German and Italian. A real trauma. One day I told my parents that I do not want to go to school anymore! I was 7 years old. Then a kind teacher helped me without asking my parents for a penny. But my class teacher has never helped me! I was different from the others because I was not from the village and I did not know how to speak in dialect! My little Italian accent makes me exclude even from spontaneous play. I suffered a lot for this. But .... in the long run, i gave that extra charge to face all the obstacles of life with grit and character without ever giving up. And it allowed me to better understand the labors of children arriving at school catapulted from another country.

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I think that being able to use their mother tongue in the classroom will help students enhance their self esteem and give them the confidence they need to make progress in the language of schooling

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Rome Italy
I think that pupils should be allowed to use their mother tongues in classroom. In my country this methodologies is not very much shared and approved, often for lack of information and training...I think people need to be updated, that's why I shared this course I hope to disseminate what I learned.

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Learning other languages will be the future of the new generations.

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Croatia
I have never been in such a situation. In my opinion, the most important thing is to create a shame-resilient classroom where every student feels safe and confident. It's

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I think that is a great idea and I am going to use it in my classes with kids that speak more than one language.

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It's a multilingual dictionary from the European Linguage Day

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I have never experienced that and I don't know anyone who has. I see that in my school we don't forbid students from using their home language, but we don't really encourage them to speak them inside the classroom. This is what is missing. Teachers must realize the benefits of allowing and encouraging students to speak their home language. They should all see and learn with Kaoutar's example. The multilingual dictionary is a fantastic idea!

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Yes i know for the situation when is not allowed to serbian minority to have classes in their own languages in their own country, in Vojvodina in rusinian school .

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We do not have children of another nationality in school ... if they do not know our language, I guess it's them and it's hard for us ...

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I think there is always  explanation for such attitude.It is obvious that free society people can speak the language they know and need for communication. But throughout human history the language is the tool used against some people by other people. And we keep it in our memory. Painful times when killing people  was associated with killing their language.

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yes at the beginning i had a problem when i was teaching to immigrants because the other teachers they didnt permit to my immigrant pupils to use their language of origin. this was really very bad for the identity and the self esteem of my pupils giving them the opportunity to use their language to have translanguaging they had a really good progress

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I think that students' home language should be respected.

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IN my school there was a fine for speaking in mother tongue beacuse in this world of globalization it is important to know english it helps in our career making so i support that.

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In our schools, use of home language is prohibited just to make students indulge in English as they have to use this language in their professional career . But from my point of view, students should be encouraged to use foreign language without imposing any prohibition on home language .

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i have never experienced such a situation. however i think it is very frustrating not being allowd to use your home language in the classroom.

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I have never experienced such a situation. However I think it is very frustrating not being allowed to use your home language in the classroom.

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As, mother language is a cherry on cake it's easy to have and delicious to taste same is in this case it's easy to use our mother younger as it's convenient but now a days english is being used widely because it's said to be bussiness or professional language due to this mother languages are not preferably used.

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knowing your mother tongue very well is very important but now a days English is something that become important to talk universally.

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I think that using each mother language it is a way to encourage communication and learn from each other

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YES I totally agree that the rules of speaking mother language should NOT that much tough that u cant use your mother tongue in your home but parents encourage them to speak more of English language so that students become fluent.

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In my school students are not allowed to talk in their home language but in English, sometimes some students face problems but teachers corr and help them

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NO DOUBT THAT MOTHER TONGUE IS IMPORTANT AND THEY MUST KNOW AND CONVERSE IN IT BUT THESE DAYS ENGLISH IS THE MOST WIDELY ACCEPTED PROFESSIONAL LANGUAGE SO THE STUDENTS MUST BE FLUENT IN IT.

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In my opinion it's a good idea to allow students to use their  home language only when the group is starting. In this way the student may be more quite

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yes, in my school even students are not allowed to speak their home language intstead the speak english.. as we want that our child also speak english rather than their local language

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yes, in my school even students are not allowed to speak their home language intstead the speak english.. as we want that our child also speak english rather than their local language

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I think that using each mother language it is a way to increase communication and learn from each other.

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I think that using each mother language it is a way to increase communication and learn from each other.

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Sometime, I have experienced the same situation. Our school board is ICSE so English is the most preferred language in my school. So, I always said to my students to use their school language. But sometimes weak students can't able to understood English language then I use another language to understood my topic

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Applying your native language would be ok to take notes at the bigginig, But it's important for the students to improve the foreing language using it.

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From my point of view , mother language is essential for students.

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Malta
Children are constantly asked to use their second language at home or at school, they are told this in order to improve their potential in that language at school.
By allowing children to use their language in class during certain aspects of the lesson allowing them to express themselves and compare their language differences and similarities has really improved my student participation.

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For the early learning periods it is ok to apply to the mother tongue but when they learn a bit foreign language applying mother tongue seems an obstacle to develop at foreign language.

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In India if one studies in an english medium school they are dsicouraged from using  their own language. this  can be avoided by educating the teachers on the importance of mastering their native language first which would encourage the students to open up and learn better

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In my opinion it's a good idea to allow students to use their  home language only when the group is starting. In this way the student may be more quite

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In my opinion it's a good idea to allow students to use their  home language only when the group is starting. In this way the student may be more quite

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But i think that the group would be taught to use the same language . It's the best way to interact eachothers

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I think more important use the mother language for the stude

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In my opinions i suggest that firstly the parents should aware of their language what they use and what they actually want from their child to speak. So the child couldn't find any difficulty to interact some other person

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It is important to allow new students from abroad to sometimes communicate in their language until they are more at ease with the new language. It helps them grow confidence and progress at their own pace.

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I think it is essential to use the mother language for the students.

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I think more important use the mother language for the student

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I think, letting students use their mother tongue in class even whenever they want can be sometimes encouraging ;)

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I have a young student in the first form this year who can speak only her mother tongue (she’s from India) and cannot understand Italian or English. She’s been in Italy for three months and she’s still in the stage when a pupil listens and pays attention but is not ready yet to start saying even a few words in the language of schooling. I think that the idea of a multilingual dictionary may be useful in this situation, I will suggest using it to my colleagues and hope this will help my students to fell at ease in the class. The girl is trying to do her best and we teachers should do the same.

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This would be a totally new situation to me.

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i had a student who spoke arabic and I let him learn us his langauge and this was great and we learn him ours

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Home language in the classroom - Aija, Latvia

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Home language in the classroom - Aija, Latvia

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When I grew up, in my school dominated two languages - Latvian (the state language) and Russian (the unofficial language but very widely used). Everybody knew Russian because of the recent historical and political context. Teachers always helped non-Latvians to cope with the study contents.

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A multilingual class is an inclusive class, where it gives value to linguistic and cultural differences. I favor the linguistic exchange in my classes and I ask my foreign students to teach me some words to use during the interaction in the classroom. Colleagues who forbid the use of different languages in the classroom are rigid teachers and closed to inclusion

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Many time,i have experienced the same situation.our school board is ICSE so English is the most preferred language in my school. so i always advice
to my students to use their school language i.e English But sometimes pupils not understand this.so i use another language in order to be understood.

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In my opinion I think that every pupil has to be free of use his/her mother tongue in class. It has to be hard for him/her

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Yes i myself had been through the same situation when i was in school.
as i was in convent school and we were not allowed to use our home language.
According to me,
these situations can be avoided when we will start thinking in the language which is used in our schools.

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We haven't this situation in our school , but around the school it is frecvently. Students speak in what language they want but not academically

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I WOULD NEVER STOP MY STUDENTS TO USE THEIR MOTHER TONGUE AS IT WOULD MOTIVATE THEM TO DISCUSS THEIR PROBLEMS AND WOULD PROMOTE LANGUAGE DIVERSITY IN THE CLASSROOM

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Home language and mother tongue is very important
But sometimes people don’t understand. That’s
Why we need the knowledge about foreign
Languages.

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Many years ago, I didn't allow my foreign students to use their mother tongue at all, because I was afraid not to keep control of the lessons. Actually I started to rethink my approach to the class and to adopt learner-centred strategies, definitely including all the foreign cultures and languages as a more motivating way to be among students and so obtaining a more welcoming and productive environment

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In my currently classroom there aren’t foreign students but in the past classrooms I have been worked in multicultural classes and I have always allowed pupils to use their mother tongue in order to help them to integrate with their classmates and to create a friendly and welcoming inhabitant for everyone.
Futhermore I think it is a good opportunity to know different languages and to do becoming all studentes more awares about the importance of a good linguistic competence.

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I was always allowed to use my home language.... but sometimes people don't understand me, so I had to speak another language in order to be understood and this motivated me to study well the language because I had this need to talk!
Actually I teach Italian to foreign people and usually I ask my students to speak only in Italian during lessons but if I see any difficulty or stressful situation  that is negative for the learning environment, I allow my students to speak in another language. I allow them to speak in another language also when I want other students to understand how difficult it's to learn another language.
I think that a teacher needs to understand when a student what to speak his/her language because he/she needs to or just because of laziness. Teachers should learn to understand students' potentials and concrete limits.
I usually don't agree when my Italian as second language colleagues say that we are not allow to talk in our students' languages. It depends, it's important to be flexible!

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I'll never stop a foreign student using his mother tongue in classroom if he wants to.

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Ismailli, Azerbaijan
In our school students learn English, Russian, French and Azerbaijani languages. I think it will be better they compare these languages.

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Being in a bilingual school we always encourage our children to use both languages. We also offer mother tongue lessons after school to encourage all languages they are exposed to. I feel that the understanding of information is more important than the language it is presented in, though in the case of learning a language minimal translation is preferable.

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To be able to communicate in different language than other classmates it's a big advantage. So why not to use it during a lesson?

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good idea

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Turkey
In my class, there are 4Iranıan students.They can speak English and Turkish but they cant undertand exactly so we have some difficulties but language diversity can be a good opportunıty for the other students.

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At a job shadowing in Germany there were students from different countries but they always must speak German. It is a bit difficult. On the other hand the students teach their languages to their peers and practice with them at break times.

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Being different makes the world more interesting, so it's the same with languages - we can meet different cultures, lifestyle. I'm agree with friends here that lingustic background it's not a shame. What's more a Great Value and Skill of the person competences. Be proud of being multilingual.

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Multilingual Blackboard

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The use of a multilingual dictionary could enrich the motivation and the interaction of all students in the classroom. It could be a very useful way to show all the cultural diversity.

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I think that a multilingual dictionary is a very useful and important. It´s a way of the children feel more intregrated  less excluded, a way of maintaining their traditions and alll students enrich themseives with all the cultural diversity. I always let them use their mother tongue language at class.

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I think the linguistic background it hasn't be a shame for anyone

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Very useful activity.

This year I have students from different countries and even if I’d like to let them talk their mother tongue, sometimes this is very difficult because their languages are uncompressible. For instance, we have a student who just speaks Urdu. No one is able to understand her, she doesn’t speak any other language, we are helping her with images.

Fortunately, It is not always like that, when we have students that speak any other language we help them to improve the new language and at the same time we help them to to keep their language and cultural heritage.

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Ce que Kahootar expose comme problème personnel et de ses élèves est totalement visible en Italie dans nos école. Travailler dans le sen s proposé est pour moi indispensable non seulement pour favoriser la connaissance des languye mais je dirais surtout pour une question d'intégration sociale.

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Though mother tongue is not allowed in the school but yet we allow them to use it to make them comfortable and to help them to remain in touch with their mother tongue

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I think that a multilingual dictionary is a very useful and captivating activity. During my teaching experience, I have had some newly arrived students in my classrooms, but sometimes I have allowed them to use their home languages. The language they have used a lot was only English or Italian. This year I 'll use the Kaoutar worksheet in my classes where there are students from Albania, Bulgaria, Morocco and China.

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The multilingual dictionary seems to me a very useful activity. 

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The multilingual dictionary seems to me a very useful activity. 

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When I have strudents' from different countries I let them talk their tongue language because it's a way of helping them to improve the new language and at the same time they can conserve and spread their cultural heritage.

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I will never stop any student to use their own mother tongue. Let them speak their own language as it increase the diversity of language in the class as well as motivate students in learning.

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I did experience with multilingual students and I tried to make them feel comfortable to express also in their mother tongue. I encouraged them whenever there were unknown words to reflect also at the meaning in their language and then to compare it showing the similarities or the differences. Such an activity as it is ”multilingual dictionary” can significantly help teachers to empower interaction between pupils with different cultural background.

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I prepared with my students, when I worked in multilingual classrooms, some multilingual dictionaries abotu class rules, class tools, class participants. For example about dresses or families! Then I always participated whith school staff to the creation of necessary  documents required to forein students. We always read these documents in class all together.

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As a student, I've never experienced that, because I was always (unfortunately!) in monolingual contexts. Aa a foreign language teacher, I always encourage foreign students to use some of their home language. However, I see that some colleagues are afraid of this, because, as pointed out by some of you on this padlet, not understanding their language, they don't feel at their ease.

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Romania
I didn't have such experience with people who speak other language than Romanian. But I had children who know to speak another language, but as second language some others like: Italian, Spanish, English because their parents are leaving abroad to work and sometimes they go to visit their parents.

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I teach Spanish and I let my students use their mother tongue, since I have learned this by experience. On the other hand, many years ago when I started teaching English in Lima, Peru (for Spanish speakers), it was banned to let students talk in Spanish or make any comparison between English and Spanish. Some topics required this because it would take longer time to be acquired by students, but teachers had to follow the hints of the curriculum being used. Fortunately, in the early 90s in the United States appeared a trend that said that it was a good idea to use the native language to explain some grammar points. I think your native language is your point of reference and the logic your brain uses, so it is there to help, not to disturb. And teachers have to be instructed when at college to apply the resources students already have. In this case, students´ native language.