Implementing classroom activities by EUN Partnership aisbl

lara italy

2018-10-01 13:12:12 UTC

Each group with different groups should presents key words in different languages, or use another language or languages in everyday routine in class.
They should create a cultural box in which each part is explained in different languages

Varvara, Latvia

2018-10-01 13:17:21 UTC

i prepare the text for students with the key words in different languages. I have also invited the students from different countries to represent their country and my students have done the same. They should also give a speech on family traditions in their country , that's give the opportunity to understand their culture better.

HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY

mavimavi2316 — 2018-10-01 13:21:12 UTC

The basis of success in this regard is dedication and effort.
I prepare the text for students with the key words in different language. I have also invited the students from different countries to represent their country and my students

Madalina Cucaila,

2018-10-01 13:27:21 UTC

Romania
They can present their country, giver a speech in their language, celebrate their traditions.

Carmela Alberghina/Italy

carmela_alberghina — 2018-10-01 13:31:04 UTC

In my lesson sometimes I start inviting students to talk about the traditions of thei countries trough pratical examples : Proverbs could be a useful link because wisdom of people is similar all over the world and they are very helpful or tonguetwisters too.

Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia- Italy

2018-10-01 14:05:14 UTC

I think it is important to give space to children to express themselves and at the same time to direct their activities towards learning objectives. For example, you could invite children to create songs with their own keywords. Pupils could be encouraged to express themselves with gestures, movements and sounds of words.

Mariateresa De Mattia Foggia Italy

2018-10-01 14:26:33 UTC

I think it is important to accept the pupils' proposals to achieve the linguistic objectives. I invited a foreign pupil to propose a game of his tradition. At the end of the experience all the children knew up to ten in Ukrainian. In the following days the same game has been proposed in Italian and the Ukrainian child has learned the numbers in our language

İMRAN ARSLAN

zeynepsina — 2018-10-01 14:31:13 UTC

Öğrenciler için metni farklı dillerde anahtar kelimelerle hazırlıyorum. Farklı dilleri kullanan öğrencileri kültürlerini temsil etmeye davet ettim. Sınıf içindeki farklı dilleri kullanarak günlük aktivitelerde kullanılan farklı dilleri öğrencilerimin birbirlerine öğretmelerine fırsat sağlıyorum. Müzik, Matematik, selamlaşma vb.

FRANCESCA

2018-10-01 14:31:48 UTC

In the children's school, even if they are small, children with my guide play with the language, also by listening on CDs and using flash cards

Zorica, Serbia

prof_zoricasubotic — 2018-10-01 14:34:12 UTC

Yes we are doing that all! We count and sing songs!

Daisy. Itali

daisydegio — 2018-10-01 14:42:06 UTC

we focus on different traditions and habits, we ask foreign students to talk about their land and different life style. We try to find similarities, differences in words related to some semantic field.

Paola T., Palestrina (Italy)

torniai_paola — 2018-10-01 14:43:50 UTC

I thank Nell again for her contributions to this debate. A source of problems with the linguistic diversity in multicultural classrooms often lies in the differences between the language the students use at home and the school language they are required to speak at school. A better insight into the characteristics of school language can yield important information for multilingual classroom practice; it needs to focus on specifies different aspects of five domains of skills: language, literacy, interaction, learning, and presentation. School language, skills, multilingualism are very important key words.

Ana, Lisbon PT

anamadalenaf_1972 — 2018-10-01 14:53:00 UTC

I think Nell's ideas are very good and really easy to put in practice in my class. As I told you, I teach arts, so it's always easier than in other class subjects. We usualy learn how to say the colours in every student language, and the name of the materials that we normally use, such as pencil, colour pencils, rubber, scissors and other things. Foreign students like very much to teach the others and they feel very proud to do it. In this way, portuguese students can experience how difficult is to foreign ones to memorize and correctly use new and strange words.

Lucia, Italy

2018-10-01 14:53:02 UTC

Two years ago I was lucky to have a romanian student in my class. During lunch time he explained the typical food on Romania and in class he taught some words and numbers in romanian to the other students. It was a cultural enrichment for the whole class.

Daniela Galea, Malta

daniela_galea10 — 2018-10-01 15:03:45 UTC

Nell's ideas are great! I always try to include different scenarios and activities related to different countries together with their culture and food. We discuss the differences between each country and its traditions. It is very interesting for the students to learn these things

FRANCESCA BORMIO ITALY

2018-10-01 15:03:58 UTC

I teach economics and the foreign studest can talk about the economical back ground of their countries, the cultural and social different perspectives which belong to another ways of life;

Roberto, Forlì, Italy

2018-10-01 15:07:37 UTC

I my Electronics course I always provide the main technical terms both in Italian and English. However, I could improve the multilingualism by asking the foreign students (from China, Romania, etc...) to write and pronounce those terms in their own language. I think this would be a really funny activity, and I also would learn a lot.

Alessandra Amideo,

2018-10-01 15:27:08 UTC

ITALY

I teach Italian literature and history, I like to share linguistic and historical paths with students different from the culture of the host country. I often ask the bilingual student to explain to his classmates his city of origin. All strictly in a foreign language and explained with simultaneous translation. The LIM is extremely important with images and captions that illustrate the cultural journey chosen by the pupil.

magdalena Uleia

2018-10-01 15:37:20 UTC

Some time ago I teach in French for Math classes . The students have Literature profile and they like very much !

Eda,Turkey

2018-10-01 15:41:43 UTC

I agree with Nell, songs are definitely working.Last year,my students translate a recipe about an Irish meal.They were surprised because the meal was totally different from theirs.Maybe stories can be good options.When they share stories with the other cultures,they can learn different things belonging to each other.

Marina, Italy

maricos001 — 2018-10-01 15:58:06 UTC

I teach English and at the end of the year I always spare some of my classes for my students to teach their native languages. Arabic, Romanian for example

Brigida Calise, Italy

2018-10-01 16:15:03 UTC

As a new year starts I usually ask my students for self introductions and, I ask my foreign students for self introductions in their own languages. That's useful and interesting for everyone.

Stefania, Italy

2018-10-01 16:24:23 UTC

I often promote this above all for maths. Two years ago, the third, fourth and five primary classes realized the typical Italian, English, Arabic and Romanian lunch menu. They were surprised because the menu were totally different from their. In my opinion this is also learning.

Daniela, Italy

2018-10-01 16:34:43 UTC

Nell

Daniela, Italy

2018-10-01 16:34:43 UTC

Nell gave us very nice ideas, how to take into account language differences in a classroom. I will follow her advices!

Bondar Gladiola, Borca - Romania

bondargladiola — 2018-10-01 16:37:06 UTC

Verses of a song we sing in different languages (Romanian, English, French, Italian)

We solve math exercises in the child's language. We participate in e-Twinning projects.

Filomena, Italy

montella_filomena — 2018-10-01 16:44:47 UTC

I invite non-Italian students to introduce themselves in their own language and to tell us about them.

Renata. Lithuani

2018-10-01 16:55:59 UTC

Nell's ideas are very lovely :). I use music for students, they must translate every song their are singing, because they must to know about what it is. Play games, where conect languages and students

Raul C, Spain

2018-10-01 16:56:09 UTC

I have listened the video and i have readed your advice. My conclusion is that i have to do more for knowing and using other languages. May be i use English sometimes but this is not enought

MARY

2018-10-01 17:05:56 UTC

I will follow her advices!

Pirjo, Finland

2018-10-01 17:08:55 UTC

Counting, greetings, days of the week, months, names of foods and drinks, finding differences but most of all similarities.

Mariagle, Italy

2018-10-01 17:46:31 UTC

I have hade some experiences with some of the examples Nell has shared, for example we sang "happy birthday" in several language. We play "bingo" in three languages, or we wrote "hello" in several languages. In an Erasmus project we wrote in 6 different languages all the polite sentences such as "excuse-me, sorry, can I go out,...". But the big problem is the evaluation and the official programme to follow, there are all very interesting activities, but they often take time to the traditional programme. I would like not to give marks in my lessons!

David Navas, Spain

2018-10-01 17:50:00 UTC

Make poster about idioms. Make calendars.

Allora the ideale are very good buttare notizie easy to realizzazione

2018-10-01 17:54:54 UTC

Antonino, Italy

a_aiello1 — 2018-10-01 18:01:23 UTC

I think that music is a very good way to create a relaxing atmosphere and a creative one. Choosing some important words in different languages and make them sing the songs and understand the meaning.

José Lopes, Guarda, Portugal

2018-10-01 18:02:03 UTC

As a secondary teacher this kind of aproach isn´t easy or usefull except if you have pupils from other countries. Anyway, primary school would always be the perfect environment to apply this type of approach. The examples given are one of many possible taking in mind that it never can be any pressure to complete a curriculum. This kind of practice is of much use if the students may guide the process and teachers are there only to tutoring the whole learning processes

Anna Kaya, Sweden

suw528 — 2018-10-01 18:05:23 UTC

We make a "Language of the month"-posters together with our students. We write mulilingual word lists during lessons. We compare languages according to grammar, word order or pronunciation - that is ususally a lot of fun. Especially when I try to speak arabic or so.

Zeynep Taş Yardımcı, Turkey

zeyneptas0 — 2018-10-01 18:06:48 UTC

Another example of classroom activity would be exchanging the cultural elements by presenting the other group of students' culture, music or dances. For example, a group of Turkish pupils would learn and present French cultural elements, their music or dances and the pupils who speak French would do the same with Turkish cultural elements. This would be so fun and a different perspective in a multilingual classroom.

Rita Luiso

2018-10-01 18:23:06 UTC

Last year, in my class there were students of East Europe and I asked them to speak about festivity and what kind food people, in their different nations ate in that occasion. I asked them writing recipes and preparing the typical food.

Ela, Poland

2018-10-01 18:26:39 UTC

In my opinion, one of the best activity is using ICT tools. My pupils create e.g. comics Toondoo or Makebeliefscomix. They write in the balloons multilingual words. In our school pupils learn English, French, Russian and German. Another example of language activity is Reader`s Theatre. Students and I love it ! They have a lot of fun and good exercise of language`s pronunciation. Let`s see the children`s performances on YouTube.

Sandra Leite - Portugal

leite_sandra — 2018-10-01 19:02:32 UTC

It is always good, in my view, to work collaboratively and cooperatively with the students in our classrooms and starting small projects with children would be ideal. We could even start counting numbers in different languages and display them on posters. Make theatricals about the traditions of the different countries represented, among others.

İSHAK KURT - MANİSA - TURKEY

kurtishak16 — 2018-10-01 20:00:06 UTC

Activities such as singing of national anthems, singing of simple children's songs in different languages, reading of internationally known stories in different languages (Little Red Riding Hood) are also useful for creating a common language in the classroom and for the discovery of different languages and the discovery of similar words.

Rovena Trivanović

rovena_trivan — 2018-10-01 20:02:43 UTC

Croatia
I like Nell's ideas.
Music,as some teachers have mentioned is a very powerful means of teaching. You can play only instrumental and ask your students to tell you what they hear,feel,see and the task can be done in the languages spoken in your classroom. My colleague Petra Kokeza and I take part in one eTwinning project where our students make videos with greetings in sign languages

Victoria

2018-10-01 20:17:06 UTC

I think art helps to unblocked and ICT tools too as creative activities. Something common to understand something different as a part of community.

Maria Rosaria ,Italy

tafymar — 2018-10-01 20:26:40 UTC

I had some Russian and Maroccan pupils and usually on the occasion of some festivity I invite them to sing their typical songs or to speak about their habits and traditions

Laura,Sicily

2018-10-01 20:29:24 UTC

In my opinion, the best way to create a effective learning process in a multilingual classroom is to organise group of students and to ask them to plan a lesson in different languages. Students are supposed to explain their lesson in their mother tongue trying to underline key words.Everyone can benefit from each other and they become the true characters of learning process.

Sara, Portugal

2018-10-01 20:53:47 UTC

I think that activities with music are always appealing for kids and if we do a fun thing they will learn faster and with more involvement and curiosity.
One funy game it´s show the pupils a image file and ask them to say what they are seeing in them mother language.
We always can development a small projects where we can involve they families and learn about them languages, traditions and countries.

Laura, Italy

laura_gianfranceschi — 2018-10-01 21:22:44 UTC

These activities are very similar toflipped classroom activities

Ilaria, Puglia, Italy

2018-10-01 21:31:50 UTC

Class activity
Reception for newly arrived students
- Guided conversations and confrontation aimed at the knowledge among the students.
- Reading of simple autobiographies - stimulation and production of personal autobiographies.
- Reading of fairy tales, nursery rhymes, stories from other countries.
- Direct testimonies of students or parents on the customs and traditions of the country of origin.
- Songs, dances, games, foods ... typical of our country compared to those of others.
- Group games aimed at promoting the values of respect.
- Respect for the rights of the child in other countries
- Individualized interventions.

Irene S., Italy

2018-10-01 21:34:07 UTC

Students choose a topic, working in language groups they elicit the key words in different languages and then each group prepares the lesson and discusses with the rest of the class.

Ezel Tuna -Bursa/ Turkey

ezeltuna — 2018-10-01 21:41:10 UTC

We have prepared a banner that shows the words of the countries that say hello to children and children in different languages. We did a fun activity saying hello words with children in these different languages.

Elisabetta, Italy

elisanteroma — 2018-10-02 00:08:35 UTC

I had experience in using graph organisers like concept maps to show keywords. Moreover, I have been creating different projects who involve foreign students and Italians to construct language opportunity to become self-aware of other languages, usage and culture. Once I organized activity where students from different countries could compare their cuisine and habits. I received positive feedbacks and was more motivate to work in such a way.

Lia Molini from Italy

lia_molini — 2018-10-02 06:19:46 UTC

Some years ago I taught in a very multicultural school : about 30% of students were from China, Morocco, Romania and Albania. We had a plurilanguage curriculum project : it was about two topics, water and food. About water students created slogans into different languages to promote the aware use of water in everyday life; about food parents, students and teachers made a recipe book into three languages . It was funny and very successful.

2018-10-02 07:10:20 UTC

I was teaching in a school which allowed me to use multilingual languages. I was teaching story telling to my students in the classroom. After teaching for one week i saw that some of the students were not able to speak even a single line of the story. Then i asked them about what was the problem and after asking so many times they answered that they do not understand anything in the classroom because the story was totally in English. Then i saw that only few of the students could understood the story in English. There were students who could only understand Punjabi or Hindi. So, I asked the teachers to help me write that story in which i can use all the languages so that students could understands also and more than that they could enjoy the story. After that i always wrote the stories beforehand with the help of other subjects teachers. This small effort made the students so happy and after that if they had any problem in understanding in the future in any subject. They always came to me and told me about that.

Daniela G, Romania

danardana2000 — 2018-10-02 08:00:36 UTC

I think that the best way to create a effective learning process in a multilingual classroom is to work with group of students.

Rovena Trivanović

2018-10-02 08:04:58 UTC

Croatia

angelfrance1972 — 2018-10-02 08:07:42 UTC

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Claudia Mazzone from Naples - Italy

angelfrance1972 — 2018-10-02 08:12:01 UTC

Last year, in my classroom I proposed to students a project entitled "Create a small legal dictionary in different languages". The project consisted of creating a dictionary in which gathering the main legal terms in the different students' mother tongues . It was a very effective job. All the students felt protagonists and participated in the project with interest and enthusiasm. As a teacher, I came out enriched and with a greater awareness of my students' attitudes and skills.

Anis Amouri (Tunisia )

amourianis — 2018-10-02 08:42:03 UTC

i am a fine art teacher,in my class sometimes I choose a theme of work, or a word for example peace, war, nature,
and I encourage students to draw, they can reproduce in many languages with many sizes and colors, they will have the chance to write in their native language.

Sofia Kotsou, Greece

ksofia2008 — 2018-10-02 09:46:47 UTC

Last year, i ask every day from my students to share with me every day a word. For example the first day we say the word "goodmorning", the next day the word "goodbye" or the frase "I love you". So, with that activity we make a classroom with colorful crafts, because every word was written in a colourful carton. Everybody was curious and interested to the diversity. Students were from Sweden, Thailand, Albania, Romania, Bulgary and Moldova.

Rosy (Italy)

2018-10-02 10:40:16 UTC

I usually use multilingual teaching materials and it encourages students. I normally do simple activity of daily routine(birthday song or typical dish) and children share the same language to plan an activity together. Children love it. Foreign students enoyed when others students ask questions or are interesting in their culture and language. They became active participants in constructing learning opportunities. They became aware that their language is useful.

Hartmut,Germany

hasc56 — 2018-10-02 11:15:40 UTC

I think the idea of flexibility is very important. A strict daily routine to realize some points of the curriculum can kill pupils activities and interest in languages.

Anja, Norway

2018-10-02 11:32:54 UTC

I tried to use music, pop songs which use several languages, to increase my pupils' awareness for how different languages sound. There are often words that they recognize, even if they didn't know which language they come from. In my Spanish classes I can encourage the arab speaking pupils to find words they know in a spanish text - there is a lot of shared or similar vocabulary, also in geographic terms.

Rita Xuereb, Malta

2018-10-02 11:43:34 UTC

Konstantina, Greece

2018-10-02 12:26:55 UTC

I think that a usefull way is to let students act in the class like a theatre and to express their feelings through the body, the expression of the face and doing gestures that are meaning the same thing in different cultures. I always learn from my students because they can saw me how I can teach different things to different people.

Silvia DM, Italy

2018-10-02 13:12:14 UTC

Silvia DM, Italy

2018-10-02 13:12:32 UTC

I have tried simple activities with my multilingual classes: we created a poster with HELLO written in different languages during the European day of languages, we introduced ourselves in English and in other different languages (by using the languages of the countries my students come from) and every now and then I ask my students simple questions to compare how English, Italian and their language work.

Mary f

2018-10-02 13:13:48 UTC

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2018-10-02 13:13:48 UTC

Mary F. (Italy)

2018-10-02 13:13:48 UTC

I agree with Nell Foster especially about the fact that multilingual activities help children to understand the construction of different languages and above all, allow them to become self-aware when they see that their language is useful .
I think that is important to create lessons where children can interact with other pupils by doing funny things like prepare a dish of another country or speak about international festivals and draw the costumes with other pupils or working in group to prepare a history book of another country .
As Nell Foster explained, it is very important to create "flexibility learning".

Maddalena Farruggia

2018-10-02 13:30:13 UTC

I think it is very useful to develop the creativity of the students, above all by creating posters with drawings and words in many languages; this creates a class group and the union and mutual respect.

Krisnel, Italy

krisneln — 2018-10-02 13:42:03 UTC

Learning to learn, creativity, communication skills, these are some of the key skills needed by the student. The student must therefore be at the center of learning. Allowing a reciprocal linguistic exchange increases the sense of group class, increasing mutual respect and intriguing students to learn new words, in a language that even up to that point they had never heard before.

Cinzia Centrone, Italy

centrone_cinzia — 2018-10-02 14:37:33 UTC

I agree with Nell. For example I find very useful two strategies in the lesson: Key words in different languages and presentatio in ppt made by students in their language on various themes. Curiosity of other students is big. They are involved.

Diana, Italy.

2018-10-02 15:02:11 UTC

I teach English in the Primary School and I organize a lot of activities to capture the attention of children from the age of 5 years to 10. These activities change according to their age and their needs, because their needs change when they grow up. For the children from 5 years to 7 I plan several game activities : they can, for example, play basketball by using balls of different colors and they have to shout the name of the colour when they catch the ball. They can learn, by heart, a short sentence ( such as, for example, " Nice to meet you") and then go round the classroom meeting other children, shaking their hands and saying: "Nice to meet you". I use a lot of toys ( dolls, cars, trains, planes, puppets...) and children can play with them by using some key words or sentences that I teached them. I see that when they can learn by playing they are much more ready to understand and to use what I teached them.

Violeta, Romania

violeta_crst — 2018-10-02 15:05:06 UTC

I think a very good activity it would be to celebrate some holidays togheter, to talk and to share the traditions for this holidays. Other activities: search and play songs in different languages, cross words, traditionals games for different people, competitions with different themes, etc.

Amelia, Italy

ametosca — 2018-10-02 15:06:20 UTC

During our English lessons, students are working in groups, because it means that students are more engaged in their learning, which means less time for classroom management. Friendly competition can also be a potent motivator for students.

viki

2018-10-02 15:14:59 UTC

viki dogani, greece

2018-10-02 15:15:01 UTC

key words in other languages, two or more, poems,

I have no experience but I agree with Neil. There are many effective activities vero useful such as key words, role playing, search songs, create posters

2018-10-02 15:29:22 UTC

Sofia Tsigara, Greece

softsigara — 2018-10-02 15:41:44 UTC

In kindergarten we learn songs in English and Greek.

Giedre, Lithuania

giedraud — 2018-10-02 16:03:56 UTC

Games, quizes, songs

Katjusa, Italy

2018-10-02 16:48:06 UTC

Greetin g in different home languages avery morning, thanking.
Very simple but rewarding

2018-10-02 16:58:59 UTC

Anna Rita from Italy
One stimulating activity could be the creation of a tree with the names of feelings and emotions written in different languages.
We could also ask our students to look for meaningful phrases or idioms typical of their mother tongue and write them on the walls of the classroom.
It will be a nice words' decoration.

Athena Anastasiadou, Nafpaktos-Greece

athenaanastasiadou1 — 2018-10-02 17:27:53 UTC

Since I am an english teacher I try to bring various cultural elements of english culture throughout the year without necessarily having a student coming from there. I try to use National days to let my students know about what people far from us do on specific celebrations!

Songs, poems, games, flexible and interactive activities, projects

2018-10-02 17:42:32 UTC

Silvia, Italy

2018-10-02 17:52:04 UTC

I think another useful activities could be making drawings and schemes of the arguments learned time by time and trnslate it - with key words - in the different languages that are in the classroom.
Another thing that comes to my mind is making the whole school more multilingual: why not to write multilingual texts for the different places in the school? Tecnology laboratory, library, classrooms, art lab, withe their own multilingual descriptions!
Or another idea is to write multilingual messages to describe the school to the parents that speak a foreign language. I think that these initiatives may make the school more inclusive for all!

Iveta Leinberga, Latvia

2018-10-02 18:05:05 UTC

As I have mentioned before, I teach students from different countries. In one of our lessons we had a team work. My students were divided in two teams. Each team had to write or draw on a board a scheme explaining Present Simple tens and the second team had to present Present Continuous tense. They enjoyed the activity. This activity helped them to cooperate as well as gave them more power. In our next lesson we are going to discuss cultural differences and students will present different words in their own language.

Maria Candida-Italy

mpetillo — 2018-10-02 18:12:14 UTC

My best experience with multilingual classrooms has been that one of the Erasmusplus project:"Sound of Europe-we are making radio".Here's an example of podcasts students made.Tongue twisters in different languages...https://soundcloud.com/user-345218139

Rita, Italy

2018-10-02 18:26:17 UTC

I think that the simplest and most intuitive activities are the most effective. I would use songs, numbers, nursery rhymes, images. Some years ago I used concrete poetry teaching German (“Konkrete Poesie”).

Sirpa, Finland

2018-10-02 18:32:04 UTC

It seems that many of the examples presented here are by language teachers or primary school teachers. Some seem really good, such as Maria's radio assignment. It is quite difficult to come up with activities which embed linguistic diversity for highschool history and politics, I came up last term during our school's language week with one fun 'Cold War ' assignment which included seven different European languages. The idea was to learn the basic crises and terms related to the Cold War by using the following languages; Swedish, Hungarian, German, Italian, Polish, Catalan and Basque. The students understood that they have to use other languages to understand the ones in question

Ioana, Romania

ioana6333 — 2018-10-02 18:37:19 UTC

Bilingual education implies a process of mutual learning, enrichment, mutual respect and equal representation of the majority and minority languages. Thus, bilingual education is a perfect tool for an inclusive school based on the integration and harmonization of cultures. Each student learns the other language, learns to learn and respect one another, teaches the foundation of interculturality: cultures, including languages, are equal and only by equal representation of this capital
symbolic and through dialogue between cultures one can speak of a real intercultural exchange.

Kirsten - Scotland

mynameiskirst — 2018-10-02 20:40:10 UTC

Wow - we always line up in different languages and singing happy birthday in all the home languages :) So lovely to hear others doing this.

Kirsten Scotland

mynameiskirst — 2018-10-02 20:41:14 UTC

Every year I take part in this competition with my bilingual learners. Learners write poems in their home language then write about it in English - thus developing both languages.
We love it - you can see some examples using #MTOT_SCILT

Michela, Italy

2018-10-02 20:51:06 UTC

We use multilingual signs to decorate the walls. We also encourage parents' participation in school activities.

Andrea Mangiagalli, Italy

mangiagalli — 2018-10-02 20:58:31 UTC

I haven't any problem in giving away my classes control. I mean I'm pretty confortable with any kind of flipped classrooms and I always ask my pupils to give me input to try and develop together how they'll learn how to learn because this is the actual challange of school: not giving info but giving method to check fonts, to perform web search, to understand what should be known by heart or what you don't need to memorize...but then you've to know what and, above all, where looking for knowledges.

As written in point 2.3 I'm going to try a multilingual approach to a English based project, inserting as many link as possible to other students' languages.

Raffaella from Genova, Italy

raffaturbi1 — 2018-10-02 22:27:37 UTC

I think a crucial factor in choosing activities is the age of the students.
I teach in an adult evening school, so using numbers or rhymes couldn’t be appealing for the students. When we study Italian Literature, I usually invite students to search poems with the same subject or written in the same period in their language and we read them in the original language. Sometimes bilingual students translate the meaning for us. Other times we search information or translation on the web. During pauses between different activities students can speak to each others using the language they prefer. So they can explain things and help each others.

Giselda Costa- Teresina- Piauí- Brasil

2018-10-02 22:42:47 UTC

My first activity in class with different culture ... I always show the power of nonverbal communication - communication of the body ... construction of senses. with videos and presentation among the students.
I use some videos to exemplify and then each group does yours.
eg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa_GCK-Czqs
My homepage: www.giseldacosta.com

Federica (Australia)

2018-10-03 02:52:52 UTC

I am used to embed students’ L2s in my lessons and I do encourage multilingual children to teach me keywords and simple expressions in their home languages. I do it quite naturally because I have a passion for foreign languages/cultures but I do it also on purpose because making connections between languages triggers memory hooks and supports vocabulary acquisition. I am now going to take up Nell’s suggestion and start using keywords in relevant L2s to introduce the learning intention of my lessons.

Since I teach in an Australian/Italian bilingual school, every time there is a birthday in the class we sing in both languages. I also encourage children to sing birthday songs and other popular chants in any other languages they know. They love showing off in front of their peers and it is usually hard to stop them.

Saying and chanting numbers in different languages is another favourite activity in my classes. I even had a couple of children who did not want to appear monolingual and pretended to know numbers in a random L2. It was heartening to see them try hard to make up numbers in a different language, so I let them be!

In general, I do include foreign languages in incidental ways in my lessons. However, I still need to learn how to do it in a more intentional, purposeful and consistent way.

Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece

2018-10-03 08:58:59 UTC

I usually teach first grade children in Minority school where I work. Those children know nothing or very few greek. So, for a month at least at the beggining of the school year I teach them at the school yard. We play a lot of games in order to undrestand basic commants like go up, down or to learn to count in greek. Those games are done using their first language and step by step the greek language.

Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy

2018-10-03 09:02:55 UTC

Even if working in a multilingual classroom - that is letting foreign students use their own mother tongue - means giving control away, this could give the students more power to shape their own learning and the type of activities they do. I have never experienced with some of the examples Nell has shared, but I think that collaborative learning and project based learning could be a hugely powerful and effective way to help my students.

Vincenzo M. Italy

2018-10-03 09:19:45 UTC

In our class every lesson is different from the others, we also sing in a festive way in the various birthdays or parties organized, we read, we play.

Krizia, Italy

kriziaiese — 2018-10-03 09:56:45 UTC

Our aim, nowadays, is to help our sts learn how to learn on their own, that's why I'm comfortable with giving the students more power to shape their own learning. I usually have my sts involved in flipped classroom activities, I ask sts to work in groups and prepare lessons for their classmates, I have them working during all the lesson, I try to be a facilitator and loose my centred position as a teacher. I experiences that collaborative learning and project based learning is highly effective with sts, they feel involved and at the centre of the learning process

Anna, Barcelona

erasmus_coordinators — 2018-10-03 10:42:11 UTC

Maybe scenarios are different between primary and secondary schools. I am secondary teacher, and my foreign pupils struggle is to don't stick out or be perceived as different. So CLIL teaching is perfect to balance skills in multilingual settings, as native pupils use to have weaker English skills than their foreign born fellows in most cases. I really love to teach CLIL because of this. Collaborative activities and eTwinning including schools from their countries, and even from their hometowns work wonders!

Manuela, Portugal

2018-10-03 10:46:36 UTC

For more advanced classes, with group work, sharing information in different languages and using online translators or dictionaries for taking decisions and getting to a final product.

Maria Rosa (Sicily)

maryroseprof — 2018-10-03 11:01:13 UTC

In my opinion implementing such types of classroom activities in a secondary school is more difficult than in a primary school, because students are less creative and teachers are always in a hurry with programs they have to do.

Martina, Italy

basilicociao — 2018-10-03 11:53:50 UTC

Bilingual students might teach some simple vobulary of their home language to their classmates, and these will in turn be used by everyone in the class to give simple instructions or asks for something.

Giuseppina V., Italy

2018-10-03 12:09:58 UTC

Among the examples Nell has shared I experienced the one concerning bilingual creative projects. My colleague, an English teacher, and lead our pupils to make two videos either in Italian and in English on the same novel from Boccaccio’s Decameron. Firstly students had to read and summarize the first novel of the forth day of Boccaccio’s Decameron in Italian (their mother tongue), secondly they had to tranlate the summary of the novel from Italian into English, thirdly there were auditions in order to choose the voice over for the stoytelling, last but not least the winner of the audition recorded his voice reading the english text of the summarized Boccaccio’s novel while slides were running. Further below there are the results .

I can also think of surfing the net looking for informations in different languages using online tranlators and dictionaries to better understand the content of the reserach done. Thanks to Manuela from Portugal for suggesting the activity.
(The Italian video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAlq5QpgJ1Y&t=10s

(The English Video)

2018-10-03 13:01:41 UTC

Rosanna
In my school we are preparing a project of twinning with Brazil. Students are learning words and expressions in Portuguese, their traditions and songs. In Spring we'll meet Brazilian students. My students are very interested in this project because they want to know another language and other traditions.

Rosa, Portugal

carinaribeiro18 — 2018-10-03 14:00:38 UTC

I do not have experience whith some of the examples Nell has shared. Meanwhile, I think that these activities aren´t easy to promove whith youngster students who must learn an extensive program !

Rosa, Portugal

carinaribeiro18 — 2018-10-03 14:00:38 UTC

Rosario Santana

2018-10-03 14:54:05 UTC

In my opinion, in secondary education it is complicated to implement this type of activities. However I have some proposals. In general, the students of the center could be involved in the drafting of school rules, in the information panels for students, in documents such as authorizations for activities, etc. In the classroom, they could create multilingual murals and include key words in different languages with the help of the students themselves. in this way, they would feel valued and respected in the school environment which would give them a better self-esteem.

Alina, Romania

2018-10-03 15:19:15 UTC

my students are involved in scientific projects with pupils from European countries .. they need to learn specialty words and expressions, converse online with children of their age, improve their linguistic skills

Maria Calà, Italy

2018-10-03 16:02:56 UTC

The anxiety of running a program and completing it seems to take my colleagues too much. Personally, I believe that we can reach the goals through other channels that upset ordinary teaching, but allow us to grasp the small nuances that speak of the pupil and his learning process. This, for example, is an excellent strategy for grasping the totality of educational action.

Salvador. SPAIN

salprosm1 — 2018-10-03 16:09:37 UTC

I would like to give control away in my classes but it,s really difficult working with primary pupils. I work every course in etwinning projects with partners from different countries and despite of the motivation , my pupils work on

very simple and directed activities because of their English level.

Federica, Italy

2018-10-03 16:28:28 UTC

In a class of 15 year old students, among which some foreign girls who knew English quite well, I organized a few activities about similarities between poetry and English songs lyrics. It was interesting both for me as an Italian literature teacher and for my students.

Roberto, Italy

2018-10-03 16:35:16 UTC

Often the scholastic activities and the numerous and interesting projects leave room for projects like this one of more 'wide breath to be developed in more' years and from the predictably positive relapses. The treasure that will derive the whole class will be an indispensable baggage that can be used in the world-society ...

Alma, Croatia

2018-10-03 16:35:24 UTC

In my school we have been in the Erasmus+ project with Spanish, French and Swedish school. Students were prepare words and expressions in all of that languages, but unfortunately, at all meetings, the students was only speaking English.

Rosamaria Teodorani

rossyteo — 2018-10-03 17:20:30 UTC

Rome, Italy
I usually implement lessons with language games and other activities as I'm an Erasmus project coordinator, I've been a Comenius project coordinator and I share e-etwinning projects, so many languages are often experiences, but all the activities are always connected to a project. What I'm trying to learn is to change the daily didactic activities.

Giuseppe, Italy

profgiuseppevullo — 2018-10-03 17:27:01 UTC

An example of a multilingual activity I saw made by a colleague of mine Andrea Mangiagalli with our students is the following one.

He give them to build a food pyramid with 4 faces. Each face of the tetrahedron reproduce a food pyramid. 3 faces are dedicated to Italian and the 2 Country/languages who is studying in school (English and Spanish); the remaining one, often, is dedicated the another language among those present in the classroom. Each student has to explain his/her food pyramid face in his/her mothertongue and try and translate it into Italian. At the end of activity, all student is invited also to prepare a multicultural snack, bringing ingredients to prepare different receipts.
As a matter of fact, food becomes a media to strenghten links inbetween and encourages embracing language diversity in the classroom.

Agata Brescia, Italy

tatiagata_brescia — 2018-10-03 17:34:23 UTC

Listening to the video of Nell, I thought about an activity I am about to start, as part of the path "work school alternation" with my fifth grade students (17-18 years). In previous years these guys have studied statistics with the professors of the University of Bari (Italy) and this school year g will be available for any statistical surveys at a center that welcomes children from Africa. Surely the boys will be able to interact with each other and to learn about different cultures, traditions and languages.
About the examples that Nell shared, I can proudly say that last year, thanks to my colleague Tiziana, an English teacher, I participated in the eTwinning project STEMland (an acronym which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). The main objective of the project was that of developing a set of thinking, reasoning, teamwork with investigative, and creative skills that can be used in all areas of the students' lives.
The Italian students shared their math works online, in the form of power points, songs, dances, interacting with students from other countries such as Turkey and Greece. I have never seen my students participate cohesively and actively at a traditional Mathematics lesson !! They have decided to participate in this school year too!
I share one of their many jobs here!

Laura Colombo - Italy

2018-10-03 17:38:07 UTC

During a class exchange, Italian and Flemish students mimed typical gestures of each culture and then asked each other to guess the meaning. It was very funny but it helped students understand the value of non –verbal communication in a foreign language.

ANTONIETTA, ITALY

miaaba — 2018-10-03 18:03:22 UTC

I think a good classroom activity which embed linguistic diversity can be an eTwinning project based on collaborative tasks.

Lucy (Italy)These are 3 possible activities to begin : multilingual pronunciation of placenames (I’m a geography teacher…!), preparation of a brief summary of the lesson, to translate with students’ collaboration in chinese, philippine, korean, spanish and so on.., preparation of a billboard to keep in classroom with the most common geographical expressions (e.g. “passiamo alla descrizione fisica del territorio…”, “per quello che riguarda gli aspetti antropici….”, “dal punto di vista turistico…”)

2018-10-03 18:22:19 UTC

Marzia Italy

marzia_tollari — 2018-10-03 18:56:49 UTC

Last year a Chinese boy arrived in the classroom in September from China, He was very shy and possibky confused, so we introduced in our daily routines to say the day of the week in engliah and chinese, se sticked names of furniture on windows, wardrobe, shelves and we asked him to say and write also in chinese , then we repeated the words in both languages and children really enjoyed it and we could observe hat also some child in need, of the class, vhas very good memory and good pronuncitation so worked on welcoming the new arrived and on inclusion of some children in need gratifying them.
Years ago I introduced the morning greeting in different languages once a week....It was very motivating....but sometimes we just forgot to do it!!
It's true there are many simple things and routines we can start in our daily work and children really enjoy it

Stefania

2018-10-03 19:39:38 UTC

I taught Italian to some migrants and refugees. It was quite difficult to communicate with them because only a few people were able to speak English. Therefore, we invented a classroom language using both English and Italian words in order to help them to become more familiar with the new language. For example, I gave them simple instructions using Italian words when they had to read or write. I noticed that this method was very useful because they started learning Italian thanks to these simple words.

I would like to follow Nell’s suggestions in order to give more importance to my students and their cultures.

mariangela_gallo68 — 2018-10-03 20:38:28 UTC

the activities suggested by Nell are easy to implement with students and very nice because they contribute to create a familiar atmosphere into the class with positive effects on the teaching and learning process.

Angela N., Chieri

angela3466 — 2018-10-03 21:03:39 UTC

I do not have much experience of multilingual projects. An idea could be reading news headlines of the same piece of news in all different languages that the students can speak or read. Then we could elicit observations about the structure of the languages and other possible differences in perspective.
(secondary school)

Margherita Carta - Italy

margherita_carta — 2018-10-03 21:35:43 UTC

I find Nell's video really inspiring. I fully agree with all the collegues who work with Erasmus + projects, and particularly with e.Twinning ones.
The creation of an e.Twinning network of two or more than two countries represents a huge opportunity for exchanging experiences, comparing cultural systems and switching between different language codes.

Gianni Lottino

giannilottino — 2018-10-04 09:11:18 UTC

I agree with Nell that gave examples of multilingual activities to run in classroo. Normally I create my lessons helping children to understand the construction of other languages, helping them to exteriorize the knowledge they have. I include in every lesson also just one ore few elements oh all the participating languages, such key words or appropriated vocabulary dossiers about for exaple the school or the classroom rules! Normally my Unit abotu my curriculum in classroom terminates or starts by a song in home and foreign language. Then, every year I participate and I create eTwinning projects and in the afternoon some free multilingual projects.

Patrícia, Portugal

2018-10-04 10:49:57 UTC

Well, eTwinning projects rule!!!:) We also try to promote the "languages week" and, every now and then, we come up with some CLIL lessons which usually catch our students' attention!

Maria Antonietta Leone,Italy

mariaantoniettaleone12 — 2018-10-04 14:04:56 UTC

I think what can use multilingual signs to decorate the wall and learn short rhymes.

Antonella

avenusitita — 2018-10-04 14:13:29 UTC

I think that Nell's ideas are very good but according to me these ideas could be applied only in primary school. What kind of activities should I propose to my students? My task is to teach them a foreign language and not a mixture of languages. I can study the common mistakes that different foreign learners can do, I mean I can help them using the principles of contrastive grammar.

The only activity that comes up to my mind is that of sharing common phrases that also the other students can easily understand and analyse them in a cultural context in order to overcome prejudices

Rosa, Italy

rosamonfreda2015 — 2018-10-04 15:22:23 UTC

When I do P.E. I often use songs where the parts of the body are named in different languages and students have a lot of fun. Maybe we could invent our own song

Alessandra, Italy

2018-10-04 15:42:46 UTC

In my opinion at Primary school it's easy to find activities for foreign pupils. For example short songs are a vehicle to learn different languages, but also nursery rhymes can become an opportunity to feel good and to enjoy a new language.

İsmail Erdoğan, Çanakkale, Turkey

aseka — 2018-10-04 15:54:16 UTC

Whatever the activity is, students can join it. Whether musical, drama, sportive, they are all valuable and beneficial.

Modulo

mannunziata_loverso — 2018-10-04 16:03:08 UTC

Maria A., Loverso
I usually implement lessons with language games and other activities: domino games, pyramid discussion, hot seat and other activities to scaffold learners to speak english

Petra Kokeza, Croatia

pepy5 — 2018-10-04 16:10:35 UTC

I sometimes implement lessons with language games. We learn short songs on different languages.
Also, every year we participate in several eTwinning projects, so our pupils communicate with pupils for all over Europe. My collegue and I also use CLIL methode.

Dimitra P., Greece

2018-10-04 16:14:52 UTC

Well, except for eTwinning, where all the multi-cultural-multi-linguistic miracles happen, a great opportunity is xmas diaries, where each month is represented by a country of origin and its respective language and children are asked to run a research to create the page and to add poems, songs, recipies etc and then sell the diaries.

Nicoletta

2018-10-04 16:43:21 UTC

Another idea can be to organize periodic circle time in which each child tells a story in his mother tongue while the others listen and vice versa.

FrancescaNeiviller Italy,

2018-10-04 16:46:57 UTC

with younger students,I usually use playing games, whereas with the oldest ones I normally use the debate scheme, both methods work very well.

Vanessa-Italy

2018-10-04 17:01:34 UTC

I sometimes implement lessons with language games.We learn short songs on different languages.I find very interesting to use games above all to explain math combinated with musical games.It' so funny!!!

Serena, Italy

2018-10-04 17:12:15 UTC

Teenagers like use TIC and generally they're very expert, so I experienced that an effective proposal is a task related to finding informations, music, photos, interviews and buid a story with all these materials. I could verify that this kind of activity is a good key to let them connect with their classmate and to enhance their self confidence

LIM ( vincenzo Amodeo)

2018-10-04 17:18:38 UTC

It is a necessary help in the study of art. It is a open window over the world and often the language is English to answer each one .

Rovena & Petra, Croatia

pepy5 — 2018-10-04 17:25:02 UTC

Interesting video

Catello de Sinno-Italy

2018-10-04 17:50:03 UTC

At the beginning of this school year I've proposed to my pupils the icebreaking activity 'My Selfportrait'. Each pupil has introduced him/herself in English. Bulgarian, Romanian and Ukrainian pupils presented themselves following the same conmmon presentation pattern. This made easy to understand what they were saying. It was exciting for all pupils

Giuseppe Vecchio, Acate, Italy

2018-10-04 18:30:55 UTC

I think that a a good activity consists in comparing the vocabulary and simple sentences concerning daily routine. Moreover, it is very useful to take part in some Erasmus + or e-Twinning projects : pupils would be very interested and motivate to learn the basic elements of other languages.

Violeta Korkucyte- the UK, London

2018-10-04 19:13:12 UTC

I like Nell's ideas and I have used some of them, such as counting/singing songs. The children enjoy it very much.
The activities I do with my Nursery children are: greetings in different languages (one greeting for the whole week), making posters with decorated greetings, learning colours, finding a song translated into different languages and learning to sing it in a few languages. A few years ago I did an eTwinning project and my pupils introduced themselves to the peers from other countries using their mother tongue. They used a Voki programme to do that. I often invite parents to come to the Nursery and read a story in their home language to the children. We often read the same story in a few foreign languages. The children love it.

Cinzia Marrone italy

stella130307 — 2018-10-04 19:25:01 UTC

I use those ideas Nelltalk about in my everyday lessons and I think those are important in learning languages

Livia, Romania

catincaoanalivia — 2018-10-04 19:57:50 UTC

I have never used those examples but one time, I asked my students to do a hobby poster and every week we added something we have done new, and some of the students used mother tongue words, so I encouraged them to use other languages each time

Anna De Donno, Italy

annadedonno — 2018-10-04 20:01:44 UTC

In an eTwinning project I had an idea about national music or song. I thought my students could translate into English a popular Italian song; they sang it in Italian with subtitles in English while I filmed them. It was a really nice activity? The other partners did the same in their own language

Sílvia, Spain

2018-10-04 20:09:56 UTC

I use songs in English to introduce or to memorize maths concepts just like Vanessa from Italy.
I've also used the activity that Nell suggest about the keywords.
And like some of my peers comment, I would like to participate in an etwinning programme in other to introduce different languages in the classroom.

FILOMENA BIANCO, ITALY

2018-10-04 20:52:09 UTC

Two years ago I started an eTwinning project with a school in Poland. In my class there were two kids whose mothers were Polish but they were born in Italy. The project, about Easter traditions in different countries, was great because thay could use Polish, as well as English, with their peers and share traditions.

Elena Merlini (Italy)

2018-10-04 21:55:00 UTC

Nowadays I think teaching has little to do with control. We are facilitators and motivators. We present topics and activities, but students actually have control over their process of learning. I believe in cooperative learning and working in small groups. They have to manage the tasks given. Debates, brainstorming and exchanging and sharing ideas are powerful tools.

Vincenza R. - Salerno Italy

2018-10-05 07:28:25 UTC

Last school year I run a school project on British Christmas traditions. My students worked in small groups both in the classroom and in the virtual classroom (Edmodo). They enjoyed it very much and learnt lots of new words and gave a glimpse to different cultural traditions comparing them with their own ones

Francesca, Italy

2018-10-05 10:14:06 UTC

I’ve never done any of the multilingual acrtivities my collegues talk about, but i find
interesting the idea of a poster done togheter by the students: about their traditions (cooking, music, festivals or religious holidays, traditional dresses, ...).

Aleksandra, Macedonia

anecvetanovska — 2018-10-05 11:16:44 UTC

I have been working on e-Twinning virtual projects for the last couple of years expanding my curriculum with internationalisation. Giving the curriculum an international dimension reflected in developing key competences in culture diversity awareness, multilingualism, bilingualism. Pupils loved working on projects about other tradition, cultures, learning songs for Day of European languages which gave them the knowledge that no language is superior to other.

Francesco, Italy

2018-10-05 15:41:11 UTC

I remember very well a particular activity I planned two years ago when my guys were 11. Three of my students whose parents come from different countries suggested to compile a sort of diary, a notebook, in which they loved writing words and sentences written in Chinese, Albanian and Moldovan. Every time one of their classmate celebrate his or her birthday, they enjoyed singing "happy birthday" in different ways. It was amazing. Then we had a little party in the classroom where they offered food and candies. I loved asking them to translate every word into English and Into the other languages. It was very funny and instructive.

Lucia Alonzo, Italy

alonzolucia63 — 2018-10-05 16:01:16 UTC

"Recipes from all over the world" has been for six months our project at school. Very interesting. At the end of our school year, each of us could prepare some special dishes and share them with the others.....

Lucia Italy I like to enrich the lesson with games and many other activities in the language: circle time, role play, realization of posters where students learn using the English language.

2018-10-05 16:35:54 UTC

Tea sisko, Croatia

tejasisko01 — 2018-10-05 16:41:26 UTC

I used to sing songs in different languages, count and learn the same word in different languages. I use Latin and Greek words quite often because I want to show them the origins of the words and word stems. But I would like to try making presentations and posters in different languages, language portfolios and passports.

Liana - Italy

2018-10-05 16:48:04 UTC

My proposal is about lessons or projects based on the reading of all over the world's fables in the original language. Students speaking foreign languages become guides for their schoolmates, in the sense they teach meaning/use of words and locutions. Drama, role-plays, digital videos are other activities that can be act/create also to increase relationships between students and their awareness of the richness and beauty of a multilingual classroom.

Hande Türker, Turkey

hande_28_hy — 2018-10-05 17:04:38 UTC

They can play tong twisters and they can say or teach their tong twister to their friends and they can practice their performances. They have great fun .

Alina, Romania

2018-10-05 17:16:12 UTC

For example at History - they can be guides to the other students and have an imaginary travel in those countries, learning games from them, telling words that start with a given letter, nature projects and many others.

Vicky Archondi, Greece

almyros_teachers4europe — 2018-10-05 17:23:36 UTC

When I'm teaching English proverbs to my teenage students, I strongly encourage them to share the respective proverb , if it exists of course, in their mother tongues. Having done so, we proceed by compiling all proverbs in a multilingual dictionary both in paper version as well as in digital version. They really adore it

Small practices with great impact :-)

2018-10-05 18:48:50 UTC

Good evening colleagues, I’m maestro Emma. Here is my little multilingual experience and what he has given us: to me and to all the children, to us. A more solid and integrated one. In the classroom I do some parts of the activities in LS, for example actions like folding, cutting .. (the so-called commands), I read stories in L2, and I ask children of other languages how they say, for example, hello- we have a billboard where we put the word in L1, LS, and in other languages with Italian phonetics below so everyone can say it and see it. I ask the children who write with different languages and alffabeti to write also with their alphabet so as to have words, sounds and graphemes from the world: the whole is beautiful. Children watch it, foreign students are proud to see their alphabet, to share words. I saw the eyes of these happy children: I mean all children. This confirms an important thing that children teach me: For children, having an adult who helps them find the tools to feel good together is a source of security and mobilizes their desire to participate. When, honestly, I tell the children "I'm looking for the way to do this, I find these problems, I have this proposal but I do not know if this - or these solutions can go well", then the children give the best: they return with the heart and all their intelligence to try to help and collaborate with those who guide and support them, with care and honesty. they seek common experiences and ways to get to know each other and communicate.

Anabela Vieira, Port.

anabelavieiratv2004 — 2018-10-05 18:49:12 UTC

I usually involve my students in projects, as eTwinning and choose partners from their mother toungue countries.

Floriana, Italy

2018-10-05 18:56:44 UTC

Together we create cardboards with greeting in different languages or other positive words related to friendship. We also solve mathematical expressions in English and other activities: role play, songs and games.

Gabriela Turea,

2018-10-06 05:39:13 UTC

Romania
As I said we don't have children from different countries, but we involve them in Eramus projects we do many activities using diferent languages. For example we choose one word and we translated in many other languages, we have a day in October when we celebrate the importance of lecture.

Agata, Italy

scanselli — 2018-10-06 10:49:02 UTC

I admit I've read your ideas before sharing mines, and I can say that I've found lots of good ones to (re)use. Thanks to everybody! As of today, as teacher of English in a school whose percentange of immigrants is very high and still growing in terms of arrivals (even mid of the school year!), I necessarily work with contrastive grammar & lexicon, which my students appreciate and ask for. Recently, I have also introduced a multi-lingual birthday song with my younger students (aged 11-12), and I've started an eTwinning collaborative project with my older ones (aged 14). I've also dedicated an entire lesson in each class to celebrate diverse languages, asking students to contribute with their own. Anyway, I'm aware there's still a lot to do. My next projects will surely be focused on getting newly-arrived families involved some way, because I realised that stiil there are huge problems with first-generation immigrant students, who often "perform" worse than non-immigrant students and second-generation immigrant students. In this case we need to reach out parents first to help them develop a sense of belonging to school and their new surroundings. Honestly, I believe there's little we can do as teacher in class if we are not supported by families in a proper way ...

Minka, Bulgaria

2018-10-06 12:56:23 UTC

I like Nell's ideas and I have used some of them, such as singing, counting, acting songs. My students enjoy singing very much. I usually involve my students in eTwinning projects to use English and enrich lessons with games and many other activities (role play, telling stories, creating posters).

Natalia, Italy

nbv777 — 2018-10-06 13:13:28 UTC

Some years ago I prepared a Calendar with a Main Spanish festivity each month, we celebrated each month one festivity. We dedicated one day to this activity, for instance, one moth we prepared a song, a video, a menu, a poem,.... This year I’ll do it by culture groups because I have a multicultural class. I think It is a good way to keep every student in touch with their language and culture and to share it with their classmates. We print our calendar and they explain everything with a power point or technical help.

Caterina Fantini - Italy

cate_67 — 2018-10-06 13:53:55 UTC

During the years I have prepared with the students billboards with the most used words translated in the various languages of the class; we read short stories in the mother tongues and then we reflected on the different languages, but on the common basis that was in many stories. My students love to sing songs, to repeat nursery rhymes in various languages. Also exchanges with e-twinning projects help to enhance the different languages.

Mariagrazia Italy

2018-10-06 14:07:08 UTC

Last year I mare up a project with my students about multilingual activities: we made a big poster of the globe and put a flag in each part of the world where the students came from. Than we wrote the names of places in different languages.We also practised saying simple sentences in many language.finally we prepared noticeboards writtten in all' our languages and put them on the walls around the school ( indicating exit entry toilets rooms canteen ...etc...) Is was fun and very interesting . Morover the parents of foreign students appreciated it very much...

Alice, Italy

severi_alice — 2018-10-06 14:31:25 UTC

I haven't experienced of it, but I can use genetics and structure of nervous system to create an activity to compare linguistic diversity in the world.

Concetta, Sicily

concetta_grasso — 2018-10-06 15:40:19 UTC

An activity that I do at the beginning of each school year is to ask the students (11 years-old) to introduce themselves and talk about what they do, they like, their interests and favorites. Basically I ask them to draw their identity card.
The activity is carried out in English and French but also in the different languages spoken by the foreign students (in the classroom this year there are 2 Tunisian students, a Moroccan, a Venezuelan and a Chinese).
At the end of the activity we write some key words and simple sentences on the blackboard, so we compare the classroom language diversity.

Inta Reinholde, Latvia

2018-10-06 15:43:57 UTC

I like Nell's ideas and I have used some of them BUT they worked perfectly among younger pupils; NOT SURE about the same methods teaching (ESL) students and adults...

Ana Cristina Martins

2018-10-06 17:27:44 UTC

POrtugal

I am used to participate in eTwinning projects which promotes diversity, use of language and tolerance in the classroom. One of the activities I always do is to learn and teach a certain sentence or word/words in different languages so the students get used to a different language and motivated to learn more.

Stathis, Greece

2018-10-06 17:29:34 UTC

Due to my speciality (electronics and computing) I always encourage to students to find out the terminology in their language and in the more common languages spoken in the world as to create a guide - manual with the most usable words of our science.

Sandra

sandra_evangelio — 2018-10-06 17:39:46 UTC

i' m going to enroll my students in a e-twinning project about food all around the world to exchange recipes with other countries and other students

Serenella, italyTraditional games and songs are a good way to let ss approach other languages, as well as food and festivals let them know something about other cultures. But in my experience sometimes foreign ss are not willing to speak in their own language, maybe because they don’t want to feel different. Obviously it’s up to the teacher creating a positive attitude in the classroom, so routine activities that Nell suggests (count, sing , make poster in different languages) can help.

2018-10-06 17:40:33 UTC

Maria Luce Spagnolo, Italy

maluspagnolo — 2018-10-06 17:50:55 UTC

I agree with Serenella’s opinion. Students can approach different cultures using different languages. I teach Italian, History and Geography in a lower Secondary School. I also try to teach Latin, using Ørberg method and I could define it a sort of Clil. I teach some latin words to my students and I place them in a clearer context, using realia, songs and scenes. I usually organize a Latin Bingo, so my students can learn Latin numbers, while many years ago it was very difficult, for me and my classmates, learning them, only by reading a book.

Veronica, Italy, teacher-to-be

2018-10-06 19:00:12 UTC

I can imagine that a good classroom activity can be letting students share their favourites songs in their home language. I think this can be also a good activity to give importance and recognise their home culture. Another activity can be a “free” text: if everyone can write a text about something he/she loves, it could be a good idea letting students write it in the language that they feel comfortable to. The ery interesting thing can also be, after, sharing all the texts with the classmates: in this way we can also understand the level in the teaching language of the student because he/she has to translate it for the classmates. And what about searching all together if she/he can’t translate a word?

Paola, Italy

2018-10-06 19:49:39 UTC

Involving children in PBL could be useful to create a positive attitude towards diffrent languages and cultures.
The e-Twinning platform is a powerful way to carry out collaborative works with students from other European countries.

Elisa M. from Belluno (Italy)

elisa_miatello_3 — 2018-10-06 21:08:09 UTC

To integrate other languages in my lessons I often make parallels between Italian (the language in which I teach) and English, French or Spanish (languages in which I have varying degrees of competence). This con happen when teaching grammar, reflecting on languages structure and "life" (evolution, contamination, neologisms etc.). It is useful in linking different subjects and knowledge to one another, but it doesn't really stem from students' bilingualism or native languages. I managed to create a meaningful multilingual context when studying the different European countries in geography: eastern students helped with toponyms pronunciation, local traditions, historic heritage. Needless to say, they were very enthusiastic and self-satisfied!

Miriam,Italy

miriamscafatihpg23 — 2018-10-06 23:47:00 UTC

E.twinning is interesting to carry out collaborative project with students from different countries

Jesús (Spain)

jesus_griego — 2018-10-07 05:58:53 UTC

I have been reading contributions from my colleagues. Italian teachers are really motivated and they have suggested a great number of possible direct activities or more complex strategies. Thank you to all of them for sharing. My personal experience consist of creating presentations, comparative boards and panels, using PBL is a powerful tool and I’d like to climb up to eTwinnig projets.

Chiara Sabatini - Italy

chisab72 — 2018-10-07 06:02:46 UTC

I sometimes ask students to tell me some words we are studying in English in all the languages they know so in this way even the students who aren't Italian mother tongue are more involved. I like the ideas Nell spoke of in the video especially the one on keywords and on counting and I'm going to try them in class starting from next week. In etwinning projects we also use different languages especially when there is a student who speaks the language of one of the partner schools: two years ago a girl communicated in Romanian and another one in Polish and it was really amazing, all the students were impressed and asked them to teach all the others some useful expression so that everybody could use those and not only English.

Jana Tokaryk, Germany

roro1 — 2018-10-07 07:14:04 UTC

I like the counting idea. As I am a foreign language, I always encourage comparing languages, e. g. Turkish kids will find that there are many French words they know. We also compare articles, Russian has none for example. And we celebrate each language’s advantages. That makes kids proud and aware of differences.

laura b. -italy

laura_brazzabeni1 — 2018-10-07 07:31:40 UTC

we organised a day with a show in the main classroom of the school for the day of the mother tongue, the languages spoken in our school, and everyone has to present sometihing typical of his Language: a song, a dance, a poem…… it was very motivating and involving so I ofet take advantages also in nomal lessons of different languages and culture present in the classroom.

Cristina C, Bergamo; Italy

2018-10-07 07:41:20 UTC

I am very fascinated by Nell's proposals even though i think they are really more useful in a context of primary school instead of in high school where subject contents have more centrality and importance in learning path. In my school, also a linguistic Liceo but not only, we usually organize an activity for students of the second year : food diversity as a mirror of language and cultural diversity. So there is a day in spring time in which students show and offer to schoolmates and teacher a range of cooked food that comes from their families home countries. Italian students , instead, cope with preparing some traditional dishes of countries they are learning languages ( Spain, Germany, France, England). It is a nice way to become more aware of diversity as a richness.

Pupils has to present something special of their language and culture in classroom.It is very motivating.

pardeepkaur9aug1994 — 2018-10-07 07:55:22 UTC

2018-10-07 08:52:23 UTC

Pupils has to present something special of their language and culture in classroom.It is very motivating.
Pupils has to present something special of their language and culture in classroom.It is very motivating.
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Cristina C, Bergamo; Italy
Cristina C, Bergamo; Italy
I am very fascinated by Nell's proposals even though i think they are really more useful in a context of primary school instead of in high school where subject contents have more centrality and importance in learning path. In my school, also a linguistic Liceo but not only, we usually organize an activity for students of the second year : food diversity as a mirror of language and cultural diversity. So there is a day in spring time in which students show and offer to schoolmates and teacher a range of cooked food that comes from their families home countries. Italian students , instead, cope with preparing some traditional dishes of countries they are learning languages ( Spain, Germany, France, England). It is a nice way to become more aware of diversity as a richness.
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we organised a day with a show in the main classroom of the school for the day of the mother tongue, the languages spoken in our school, and everyone has to present sometihing typical of his Language: a song, a dance, a poem…… it was very motivating and involving so I ofet take advantages also in nomal lessons of different languages and culture present in the classroom.
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Jana Tokaryk, Germany
Jana Tokaryk, Germany
I like the counting idea. As I am a foreign language, I always encourage comparing languages, e. g. Turkish kids will find that there are many French words they know. We also compare articles, Russian has none for example. And we celebrate each language’s advantages. That makes kids proud and aware of differences.
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Chiara Sabatini - Italy
Chiara Sabatini - Italy
I sometimes ask students to tell me some words we are studying in English in all the languages they know so in this way even the students who aren't Italian mother tongue are more involved. I like the ideas Nell spoke of in the video especially the one on keywords and on counting and I'm going to try them in class starting from next week. In etwinning projects we also use different languages especially when there is a student who speaks the language of one of the partner schools: two years ago a girl communicated in Romanian and another one in Polish and it was really amazing, all the students were impressed and asked them to teach all the others some useful expression so that everybody could use those and not only English.
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Jesús (Spain)
Jesús (Spain)
I have been reading contributions from my colleagues. Italian teachers are really motivated and they have suggested a great number of possible direct activities or more complex strategies. Thank you to all of them for sharing. My personal experience consist of creating presentations, comparative boards and panels, using PBL is a powerful tool and I’d like to climb up to eTwinnig projets.

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Miriam,Italy
Miriam,Italy
E.twinning is interesting to carry out collaborative project with students from different countries
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Elisa M. from Belluno (Italy)
Elisa M. from Belluno (Italy)
To integrate other languages in my lessons I often make parallels between Italian (the language in which I teach) and English, French or Spanish (languages in which I have varying degrees of competence). This con happen when teaching grammar, reflecting on languages structure and "life" (evolution, contamination, neologisms etc.). It is useful in linking different subjects and knowledge to one another, but it doesn't really stem from students' bilingualism or native languages. I managed to create a meaningful multilingual context when studying the different European countries in geography: eastern students helped with toponyms pronunciation, local traditions, historic heritage. Needless to say, they were very enthusiastic and self-satisfied!
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Jesús González García 3h
Thank you Elisa. Your suggestions are quite practical and accurate.
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Paola, Italy
Paola, Italy
Involving children in PBL could be useful to create a positive attitude towards diffrent languages and cultures.
The e-Twinning platform is a powerful way to carry out collaborative works with students from other European countries.
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Veronica, Italy, teacher-to-be
Veronica, Italy, teacher-to-be
I can imagine that a good classroom activity can be letting students share their favourites songs in their home language. I think this can be also a good activity to give importance and recognise their home culture. Another activity can be a “free” text: if everyone can write a text about something he/she loves, it could be a good idea letting students write it in the language that they feel comfortable to. The ery interesting thing can also be, after, sharing all the texts with the classmates: in this way we can also understand the level in the teaching language of the student because he/she has to translate it for the classmates. And what about searching all together if she/he can’t translate a word?

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Jesús González García 3h
Hello Veronica: I find your ideas for practical activities really useful and motivating. Thank you for sharing.
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Maria Luce Spagnolo, Italy
Maria Luce Spagnolo, Italy
I agree with Serenella’s opinion. Students can approach different cultures using different languages. I teach Italian, History and Geography in a lower Secondary School. I also try to teach Latin, using Ørberg method and I could define it a sort of Clil. I teach some latin words to my students and I place them in a clearer context, using realia, songs and scenes. I usually organize a Latin Bingo, so my students can learn Latin numbers, while many years ago it was very difficult, for me and my classmates, learning them, only by reading a book.

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Serenella, italyTraditional games and songs are a good way to let ss approach other languages, as well as food and festivals let them know something about other cultures. But in my experience sometimes foreign ss are not willing to speak in their own language, maybe because they don’t want to feel different. Obviously it’s up to the teacher creating a positive attitude in the classroom, so routine activities that Nell suggests (count, sing , make poster in different languages) can help.
Serenella, italyTraditional games and songs are a good way to let ss approach other languages, as well as food and festivals let them know something about other cultures. But in my experience sometimes foreign ss are not willing to speak in their own language, maybe because they don’t want to feel different. Obviously it’s up to the teacher creating a positive attitude in the classroom, so routine activities that Nell suggests (count, sing , make poster in different languages) can help.
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Sandra
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i' m going to enroll my students in a e-twinning project about food all around the world to exchange recipes with other countries and other students
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Stathis, Greece
Stathis, Greece
Due to my speciality (electronics and computing) I always encourage to students to find out the terminology in their language and in the more common languages spoken in the world as to create a guide - manual with the most usable words of our science.
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I am used to participate in eTwinning projects which promotes diversity, use of language and tolerance in the classroom. One of the activities I always do is to learn and teach a certain sentence or word/words in different languages so the students get used to a different language and motivated to learn more.
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Inta Reinholde, Latvia
Inta Reinholde, Latvia
I like Nell's ideas and I have used some of them BUT they worked perfectly among younger pupils; NOT SURE about the same methods teaching (ESL) students and adults...
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Concetta, Sicily
Concetta, Sicily
An activity that I do at the beginning of each school year is to ask the students (11 years-old) to introduce themselves and talk about what they do, they like, their interests and favorites. Basically I ask them to draw their identity card.
The activity is carried out in English and French but also in the different languages spoken by the foreign students (in the classroom this year there are 2 Tunisian students, a Moroccan, a Venezuelan and a Chinese).
At the end of the activity we write some key words and simple sentences on the blackboard, so we compare the classroom language diversity.

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Alice, Italy
Alice, Italy
I haven't experienced of it, but I can use genetics and structure of nervous system to create an activity to compare linguistic diversity in the world.
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Mariagrazia Italy
Mariagrazia Italy
Last year I mare up a project with my students about multilingual activities: we made a big poster of the globe and put a flag in each part of the world where the students came from. Than we wrote the names of places in different languages.We also practised saying simple sentences in many language.finally we prepared noticeboards writtten in all' our languages and put them on the walls around the school ( indicating exit entry toilets rooms canteen ...etc...) Is was fun and very interesting . Morover the parents of foreign students appreciated it very much...
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Caterina Fantini - Italy
Caterina Fantini - Italy
During the years I have prepared with the students billboards with the most used words translated in the various languages of the class; we read short stories in the mother tongues and then we reflected on the different languages, but on the common basis that was in many stories. My students love to sing songs, to repeat nursery rhymes in various languages. Also exchanges with e-twinning projects help to enhance the different languages.
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Natalia, Italy
Natalia, Italy
Some years ago I prepared a Calendar with a Main Spanish festivity each month, we celebrated each month one festivity. We dedicated one day to this activity, for instance, one moth we prepared a song, a video, a menu, a poem,.... This year I’ll do it by culture groups because I have a multicultural class. I think It is a good way to keep every student in touch with their language and culture and to share it with their classmates. We print our calendar and they explain everything with a power point or technical help.

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Minka, Bulgaria
Minka, Bulgaria
I like Nell's ideas and I have used some of them, such as singing, counting, acting songs. My students enjoy singing very much. I usually involve my students in eTwinning projects to use English and enrich lessons with games and many other activities (role play, telling stories, creating posters).
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Agata, Italy
Agata, Italy
I admit I've read your ideas before sharing mines, and I can say that I've found lots of good ones to (re)use. Thanks to everybody! As of today, as teacher of English in a school whose percentange of immigrants is very high and still growing in terms of arrivals (even mid of the school year!), I necessarily work with contrastive grammar & lexicon, which my students appreciate and ask for. Recently, I have also introduced a multi-lingual birthday song with my younger students (aged 11-12), and I've started an eTwinning collaborative project with my older ones (aged 14). I've also dedicated an entire lesson in each class to celebrate diverse languages, asking students to contribute with their own. Anyway, I'm aware there's still a lot to do. My next projects will surely be focused on getting newly-arrived families involved some way, because I realised that stiil there are huge problems with first-generation immigrant students, who often "perform" worse than non-immigrant students and second-generation immigrant students. In this case we need to reach out parents first to help them develop a sense of belonging to school and their new surroundings. Honestly, I believe there's little we can do as teacher in class if we are not supported by families in a proper way ...
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Gabriela Turea,
Gabriela Turea,
Romania
As I said we don't have children from different countries, but we involve them in Eramus projects we do many activities using diferent languages. For example we choose one word and we translated in many other languages, we have a day in October when we celebrate the importance of lecture.
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Floriana, Italy
Floriana, Italy
Together we create cardboards with greeting in different languages or other positive words related to friendship. We also solve mathematical expressions in English and other activities: role play, songs and games.

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Anabela Vieira, Port.
Anabela Vieira, Port.
I usually involve my students in projects, as eTwinning and choose partners from their mother toungue countries.
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Small practices with great impact :-)
Small practices with great impact :-)
Good evening colleagues, I’m maestro Emma. Here is my little multilingual experience and what he has given us: to me and to all the children, to us. A more solid and integrated one. In the classroom I do some parts of the activities in LS, for example actions like folding, cutting .. (the so-called commands), I read stories in L2, and I ask children of other languages how they say, for example, hello- we have a billboard where we put the word in L1, LS, and in other languages with Italian phonetics below so everyone can say it and see it. I ask the children who write with different languages and alffabeti to write also with their alphabet so as to have words, sounds and graphemes from the world: the whole is beautiful. Children watch it, foreign students are proud to see their alphabet, to share words. I saw the eyes of these happy children: I mean all children. This confirms an important thing that children teach me: For children, having an adult who helps them find the tools to feel good together is a source of security and mobilizes their desire to participate. When, honestly, I tell the children "I'm looking for the way to do this, I find these problems, I have this proposal but I do not know if this - or these solutions can go well", then the children give the best: they return with the heart and all their intelligence to try to help and collaborate with those who guide and support them, with care and honesty. they seek common experiences and ways to get to know each other and communicate.

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Vicky Archondi, Greece
Vicky Archondi, Greece
When I'm teaching English proverbs to my teenage students, I strongly encourage them to share the respective proverb , if it exists of course, in their mother tongues. Having done so, we proceed by compiling all proverbs in a multilingual dictionary both in paper version as well as in digital version. They really adore it
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Alina, Romania
Alina, Romania
For example at History - they can be guides to the other students and have an imaginary travel in those countries, learning games from them, telling words that start with a given letter, nature projects and many others.
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Hande Türker, Turkey
Hande Türker, Turkey
They can play tong twisters and they can say or teach their tong twister to their friends and they can practice their performances. They have great fun .
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Liana - Italy
Liana - Italy
My proposal is about lessons or projects based on the reading of all over the world's fables in the original language. Students speaking foreign languages become guides for their schoolmates, in the sense they teach meaning/use of words and locutions. Drama, role-plays, digital videos are other activities that can be act/create also to increase relationships between students and their awareness of the richness and beauty of a multilingual classroom.
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Tea sisko, Croatia
Tea sisko, Croatia
I used to sing songs in different languages, count and learn the same word in different languages. I use Latin and Greek words quite often because I want to show them the origins of the words and word stems. But I would like to try making presentations and posters in different languages, language portfolios and passports.
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Lucia Italy I like to enrich the lesson with games and many other activities in the language: circle time, role play, realization of posters where students learn using the English language.
Lucia Italy I like to enrich the lesson with games and many other activities in the language: circle time, role play, realization of posters where students learn using the English language.
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Lucia Alonzo, Italy
Lucia Alonzo, Italy
"Recipes from all over the world" has been for six months our project at school. Very interesting. At the end of our school year, each of us could prepare some special dishes and share them with the others.....
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Anonimo 2g
I think your project is attractive and meaningful both a didactic and a human point of view.

Agata Scanselli 22h
I'm starting something like this this year, with my 12-year students ... Good idea! And guys love working with food...
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Francesco, Italy
Francesco, Italy
I remember very well a particular activity I planned two years ago when my guys were 11. Three of my students whose parents come from different countries suggested to compile a sort of diary, a notebook, in which they loved writing words and sentences written in Chinese, Albanian and Moldovan. Every time one of their classmate celebrate his or her birthday, they enjoyed singing "happy birthday" in different ways. It was amazing. Then we had a little party in the classroom where they offered food and candies. I loved asking them to translate every word into English and Into the other languages. It was very funny and instructive.
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Aleksandra, Macedonia
Aleksandra, Macedonia
I have been working on e-Twinning virtual projects for the last couple of years expanding my curriculum with internationalisation. Giving the curriculum an international dimension reflected in developing key competences in culture diversity awareness, multilingualism, bilingualism. Pupils loved working on projects about other tradition, cultures, learning songs for Day of European languages which gave them the knowledge that no language is superior to other.
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Francesca, Italy
Francesca, Italy
I’ve never done any of the multilingual acrtivities my collegues talk about, but i find
interesting the idea of a poster done togheter by the students: about their traditions (cooking, music, festivals or religious holidays, traditional dresses, ...).
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Vincenza R. - Salerno Italy
Vincenza R. - Salerno Italy
Last school year I run a school project on British Christmas traditions. My students worked in small groups both in the classroom and in the virtual classroom (Edmodo). They enjoyed it very much and learnt lots of new words and gave a glimpse to different cultural traditions comparing them with their own ones
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Elena Merlini (Italy)
Elena Merlini (Italy)
Nowadays I think teaching has little to do with control. We are facilitators and motivators. We present topics and activities, but students actually have control over their process of learning. I believe in cooperative learning and working in small groups. They have to manage the tasks given. Debates, brainstorming and exchanging and sharing ideas are powerful tools.
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Agata Scanselli 22h
Believe me me, Elena ... lots of colleagues still want to control, and that's the problem, which often makes students confused, because what they can do with one teacher they can't do with another one! There's still little consistency in the way teaching is arranged at school...
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FILOMENA BIANCO, ITALY
FILOMENA BIANCO, ITALY
Two years ago I started an eTwinning project with a school in Poland. In my class there were two kids whose mothers were Polish but they were born in Italy. The project, about Easter traditions in different countries, was great because thay could use Polish, as well as English, with their peers and share traditions.
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Sílvia, Spain
Sílvia, Spain
I use songs in English to introduce or to memorize maths concepts just like Vanessa from Italy.
I've also used the activity that Nell suggest about the keywords.
And like some of my peers comment, I would like to participate in an etwinning programme in other to introduce different languages in the classroom.
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Anna De Donno, Italy
Anna De Donno, Italy
In an eTwinning project I had an idea about national music or song. I thought my students could translate into English a popular Italian song; they sang it in Italian with subtitles in English while I filmed them. It was a really nice activity? The other partners did the same in their own language
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Livia, Romania
Livia, Romania
I have never used those examples but one time, I asked my students to do a hobby poster and every week we added something we have done new, and some of the students used mother tongue words, so I encouraged them to use other languages each time
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Cinzia Marrone italy
Cinzia Marrone italy
I use those ideas Nelltalk about in my everyday lessons and I think those are important in learning languages
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Violeta Korkucyte- the UK, London
Violeta Korkucyte- the UK, London
I like Nell's ideas and I have used some of them, such as counting/singing songs. The children enjoy it very much.
The activities I do with my Nursery children are: greetings in different languages (one greeting for the whole week), making posters with decorated greetings, learning colours, finding a song translated into different languages and learning to sing it in a few languages. A few years ago I did an eTwinning project and my pupils introduced themselves to the peers from other countries using their mother tongue. They used a Voki programme to do that. I often invite parents to come to the Nursery and read a story in their home language to the children. We often read the same story in a few foreign languages. The children love it.
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Giuseppe Vecchio, Acate, Italy
Giuseppe Vecchio, Acate, Italy
I think that a a good activity consists in comparing the vocabulary and simple sentences concerning daily routine. Moreover, it is very useful to take part in some Erasmus + or e-Twinning projects : pupils would be very interested and motivate to learn the basic elements of other languages.

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Catello de Sinno-Italy
Catello de Sinno-Italy
At the beginning of this school year I've proposed to my pupils the icebreaking activity 'My Selfportrait'. Each pupil has introduced him/herself in English. Bulgarian, Romanian and Ukrainian pupils presented themselves following the same conmmon presentation pattern. This made easy to understand what they were saying. It was exciting for all pupils
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Rovena & Petra, Croatia
Rovena & Petra, Croatia
Interesting video
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LIM ( vincenzo Amodeo)
LIM ( vincenzo Amodeo)
It is a necessary help in the study of art. It is a open window over the world and often the language is English to answer each one .
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Serena, Italy
Serena, Italy
Teenagers like use TIC and generally they're very expert, so I experienced that an effective proposal is a task related to finding informations, music, photos, interviews and buid a story with all these materials. I could verify that this kind of activity is a good key to let them connect with their classmate and to enhance their self confidence
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Vanessa-Italy
Vanessa-Italy
I sometimes implement lessons with language games.We learn short songs on different languages.I find very interesting to use games above all to explain math combinated with musical games.It' so funny!!!
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FrancescaNeiviller Italy,
FrancescaNeiviller Italy,
with younger students,I usually use playing games, whereas with the oldest ones I normally use the debate scheme, both methods work very well.
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Nicoletta
Nicoletta
Another idea can be to organize periodic circle time in which each child tells a story in his mother tongue while the others listen.
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Dimitra P., Greece
Dimitra P., Greece
Well, except for eTwinning, where all the multi-cultural-multi-linguistic miracles happen, a great opportunity is xmas diaries, where each month is represented by a country of origin and its respective language and children are asked to run a research to create the page and to add poems, songs, recipies etc and then sell the diaries.
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Petra Kokeza, Croatia
Petra Kokeza, Croatia
I sometimes implement lessons with language games. We learn short songs on different languages.
Also, every year we participate in several eTwinning projects, so our pupils communicate with pupils for all over Europe. My collegue and I also use CLIL methode.
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Maria A., Loverso
I usually implement lessons with language games and other activities: domino games, pyramid discussion, hot seat and other activities to scaffold learners to speak english
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İsmail Erdoğan, Çanakkale, Turkey
İsmail Erdoğan, Çanakkale, Turkey
Whatever the activity is, students can join it. Whether musical, drama, sportive, they are all valuable and beneficial.
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Alessandra, Italy
Alessandra, Italy
In my opinion at Primary school it's easy to find activities for foreign pupils. For example short songs are a vehicle to learn different languages, but also nursery rhymes can become an opportunity to feel good and to enjoy a new language.
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Rosa, Italy
Rosa, Italy
When I do P.E. I often use songs where the parts of the body are named in different languages and students have a lot of fun. Maybe we could invent our own song
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Antonella
Antonella
I think that Nell's ideas are very good but according to me these ideas could be applied only in primary school. What kind of activities should I propose to my students? My task is to teach them a foreign language and not a mixture of languages. I can study the common mistakes that different foreign learners can do, I mean I can help them using the principles of contrastive grammar.
The only activity that comes up to my mind is that of sharing common phrases that also the other students can easily understand and analyse them in a cultural context in order to overcome prejudices

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Serena, Italy. I completely agree with you, unfortunately in the secondary school the different subjects prevail upon a multicultural approach

Agata Scanselli 22h
That's tru! As teacher of English I experience the same difficulties Antonella face with her classes. From the secondary onwards subjects prevail over evrything ...
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Maria Antonietta Leone,Italy
Maria Antonietta Leone,Italy
I think what can use multilingual signs to decorate the wall and learn short rhymes.
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RosannaIn my sch
Rosanna
In my school we are preparing a project of twinning with Brazil. Students are learning words and expressions in Portuguese, their traditions and songs. In Spring we'll meet Brazilian students. My students are very interested in this project because they want to know another language and other traditions.
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Patrícia, Portugal
Patrícia, Portugal
Well, eTwinning projects rule!!!:) We also try to promote the "languages week" and, every now and then, we come up with some CLIL lessons which usually catch our students' attention!

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Gianni Lottino
Gianni Lottino
I agree with Nell that gave examples of multilingual activities to run in classroo. Normally I create my lessons helping children to understand the construction of other languages, helping them to exteriorize the knowledge they have. I include in every lesson also just one ore few elements oh all the participating languages, such key words or appropriated vocabulary dossiers about for exaple the school or the classroom rules! Normally my Unit abotu my curriculum in classroom terminates or starts by a song in home and foreign language. Then, every year I participate and I create eTwinning projects and in the afternoon some free multilingual projects.
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Margherita Carta - Italy
Margherita Carta - Italy
I find Nell's video really inspiring. I fully agree with all the collegues who work with Erasmus + projects, and particularly with e.Twinning ones.
The creation of an e.Twinning network of two or more than two countries represents a huge opportunity for exchanging experiences, comparing cultural systems and switching between different language codes.
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Angela N., Chieri
Angela N., Chieri
I do not have much experience of multilingual projects. An idea could be reading news headlines of the same piece of news in all different languages that the students can speak or read. Then we could elicit observations about the structure of the languages and other possible differences in perspective.
(secondary school)
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the activities suggested by Nell are easy to implement with students and very nice because they contribute to create a familiar atmosphere into the class with positive effects on the teaching and learning process.
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Stefania
Stefania
I taught Italian to some migrants and refugees. It was quite difficult to communicate with them because only a few people were able to speak English. Therefore, we invented a classroom language using both English and Italian words in order to help them to become more familiar with the new language. For example, I gave them simple instructions using Italian words when they had to read or write. I noticed that this method was very useful because they started learning Italian thanks to these simple words.
I would like to follow Nell’s suggestions in order to give more importance to my students and their cultures.
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Serena, Italy Sharing experiences shooting videos or using online materials to better express themselves and their emotion is usually a good idea with refugees and migrants. They learn faster when they can tell something about their feelings.
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Marzia Italy
Marzia Italy
Last year a Chinese boy arrived in the classroom in September from China, He was very shy and possibky confused, so we introduced in our daily routines to say the day of the week in engliah and chinese, se sticked names of furniture on windows, wardrobe, shelves and we asked him to say and write also in chinese , then we repeated the words in both languages and children really enjoyed it and we could observe hat also some child in need, of the class, vhas very good memory and good pronuncitation so worked on welcoming the new arrived and on inclusion of some children in need gratifying them.
Years ago I introduced the morning greeting in different languages once a week....It was very motivating....but sometimes we just forgot to do it!!
It's true there are many simple things and routines we can start in our daily work and children really enjoy it
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Lucy (Italy)These are 3 possible activities to begin : multilingual pronunciation of placenames (I’m a geography teacher…!), preparation of a brief summary of the lesson, to translate with students’ collaboration in chinese, philippine, korean, spanish and so on.., preparation of a billboard to keep in classroom with the most common geographical expressions (e.g. “passiamo alla descrizione fisica del territorio…”, “per quello che riguarda gli aspetti antropici….”, “dal punto di vista turistico…”)
Lucy (Italy)These are 3 possible activities to begin : multilingual pronunciation of placenames (I’m a geography teacher…!), preparation of a brief summary of the lesson, to translate with students’ collaboration in chinese, philippine, korean, spanish and so on.., preparation of a billboard to keep in classroom with the most common geographical expressions (e.g. “passiamo alla descrizione fisica del territorio…”, “per quello che riguarda gli aspetti antropici….”, “dal punto di vista turistico…”)
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ANTONIETTA, ITALY
ANTONIETTA, ITALY
I think a good classroom activity which embed linguistic diversity can be an eTwinning project based on collaborative tasks.
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Laura Colombo - Italy
Laura Colombo - Italy
During a class exchange, Italian and Flemish students mimed typical gestures of each culture and then asked each other to guess the meaning. It was very funny but it helped students understand the value of non –verbal communication in a foreign language.
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Agata Brescia, Italy
Agata Brescia, Italy
Listening to the video of Nell, I thought about an activity I am about to start, as part of the path "work school alternation" with my fifth grade students (17-18 years). In previous years these guys have studied statistics with the professors of the University of Bari (Italy) and this school year g will be available for any statistical surveys at a center that welcomes children from Africa. Surely the boys will be able to interact with each other and to learn about different cultures, traditions and languages.
About the examples that Nell shared, I can proudly say that last year, thanks to my colleague Tiziana, an English teacher, I participated in the eTwinning project STEMland (an acronym which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths). The main objective of the project was that of developing a set of thinking, reasoning, teamwork with investigative, and creative skills that can be used in all areas of the students' lives.
The Italian students shared their math works online, in the form of power points, songs, dances, interacting with students from other countries such as Turkey and Greece. I have never seen my students participate cohesively and actively at a traditional Mathematics lesson !! They have decided to participate in this school year too!
I share one of their many jobs here!

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Giuseppe, Italy
Giuseppe, Italy
An example of a multilingual activity I saw made by a colleague of mine Andrea Mangiagalli with our students is the following one.
He give them to build a food pyramid with 4 faces. Each face of the tetrahedron reproduce a food pyramid. 3 faces are dedicated to Italian and the 2 Country/languages who is studying in school (English and Spanish); the remaining one, often, is dedicated the another language among those present in the classroom. Each student has to explain his/her food pyramid face in his/her mothertongue and try and translate it into Italian. At the end of activity, all student is invited also to prepare a multicultural snack, bringing ingredients to prepare different receipts.
As a matter of fact, food becomes a media to strenghten links inbetween and encourages embracing language diversity in the classroom.
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Rosamaria Teodorani
Rosamaria Teodorani
Rome, Italy
I usually implement lessons with language games and other activities as I'm an Erasmus project coordinator, I've been a Comenius project coordinator and I share e-etwinning projects, so many languages are often experiences, but all the activities are always connected to a project. What I'm trying to learn is to change the daily didactic activities.
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Alma, Croatia
Alma, Croatia
In my school we have been in the Erasmus+ project with Spanish, French and Swedish school. Students were prepare words and expressions in all of that languages, but unfortunately, at all meetings, the students was only speaking English.
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Roberto, Italy
Roberto, Italy
Often the scholastic activities and the numerous and interesting projects leave room for projects like this one of more 'wide breath to be developed in more' years and from the predictably positive relapses. The treasure that will derive the whole class will be an indispensable baggage that can be used in the world-society ...

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Federica, Italy
Federica, Italy
In a class of 15 year old students, among which some foreign girls who knew English quite well, I organized a few activities about similarities between poetry and English songs lyrics. It was interesting both for me as an Italian literature teacher and for my students.
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Salvador. SPAIN
Salvador. SPAIN
I would like to give control away in my classes but it,s really difficult working with primary pupils. I work every course in etwinning projects with partners from different countries and despite of the motivation , my pupils work on
very simple and directed activities because of their English level.
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Maria Calà, Italy
Maria Calà, Italy
The anxiety of running a program and completing it seems to take my colleagues too much. Personally, I believe that we can reach the goals through other channels that upset ordinary teaching, but allow us to grasp the small nuances that speak of the pupil and his learning process. This, for example, is an excellent strategy for grasping the totality of educational action.
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Alina, Romania
Alina, Romania
my students are involved in scientific projects with pupils from European countries .. they need to learn specialty words and expressions, converse online with children of their age, improve their linguistic skills
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Rosario Santana
Rosario Santana
In my opinion, in secondary education it is complicated to implement this type of activities. However I have some proposals. In general, the students of the center could be involved in the drafting of school rules, in the information panels for students, in documents such as authorizations for activities, etc. In the classroom, they could create multilingual murals and include key words in different languages with the help of the students themselves. in this way, they would feel valued and respected in the school environment which would give them a better self-esteem.
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Rosa, Portugal
Rosa, Portugal
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Rosa, Portugal
Rosa, Portugal
I do not have experience whith some of the examples Nell has shared. Meanwhile, I think that these activities aren´t easy to promove whith youngster students who must learn an extensive program !

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Giuseppina V., Italy
Giuseppina V., Italy
Among the examples Nell has shared I experienced the one concerning bilingual creative projects. My colleague, an English teacher, and lead our pupils to make two videos either in Italian and in English on the same novel from Boccaccio’s Decameron. Firstly students had to read and summarize the first novel of the forth day of Boccaccio’s Decameron in Italian (their mother tongue), secondly they had to tranlate the summary of the novel from Italian into English, thirdly there were auditions in order to choose the voice over for the stoytelling, last but not least the winner of the audition recorded his voice reading the english text of the summarized Boccaccio’s novel while slides were running. Further below there are the results .
I can also think of surfing the net looking for informations in different languages using online tranlators and dictionaries to better understand the content of the reserach done. Thanks to Manuela from Portugal for suggesting the activity.
(The Italian video) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAlq5QpgJ1Y&t=10s

(The English Video)
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Well done! I am very interested in translations using Italian and English and in comparative literature.
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Martina, Italy
Martina, Italy
Bilingual students might teach some simple vobulary of their home language to their classmates, and these will in turn be used by everyone in the class to give simple instructions or asks for something.
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Maria Rosa (Sicily)
Maria Rosa (Sicily)
In my opinion implementing such types of classroom activities in a secondary school is more difficult than in a primary school, because students are less creative and teachers are always in a hurry with programs they have to do.
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I agree
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Manuela, Portugal
Manuela, Portugal
For more advanced classes, with group work, sharing information in different languages and using online translators or dictionaries for taking decisions and getting to a final product.
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Anonimo 4g
That's a great idea. Congratulations!

Anonimo 4g
It was me: Giuseppina V., from Italy.
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Krizia, Italy
Krizia, Italy
Our aim, nowadays, is to help our sts learn how to learn on their own, that's why I'm comfortable with giving the students more power to shape their own learning. I usually have my sts involved in flipped classroom activities, I ask sts to work in groups and prepare lessons for their classmates, I have them working during all the lesson, I try to be a facilitator and loose my centred position as a teacher. I experiences that collaborative learning and project based learning is highly effective with sts, they feel involved and at the centre of the learning process
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Vincenzo M. Italy
Vincenzo M. Italy
In our class every lesson is different from the others, we also sing in a festive way in the various birthdays or parties organized, we read, we play.
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Anna, Barcelona
Anna, Barcelona
Maybe scenarios are different between primary and secondary schools. I am secondary teacher, and my foreign pupils struggle is to don't stick out or be perceived as different. So CLIL teaching is perfect to balance skills in multilingual settings, as native pupils use to have weaker English skills than their foreign born fellows in most cases. I really love to teach CLIL because of this. Collaborative activities and eTwinning including schools from their countries, and even from their hometowns work wonders!
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Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy
Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy
Even if working in a multilingual classroom - that is letting foreign students use their own mother tongue - means giving control away, this could give the students more power to shape their own learning and the type of activities they do. I have never experienced with some of the examples Nell has shared, but I think that collaborative learning and project based learning could be a hugely powerful and effective way to help my students.
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Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece
Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece
I usually teach first grade children in Minority school where I work. Those children know nothing or very few greek. So, for a month at least at the beggining of the school year I teach them at the school yard. We play a lot of games in order to undrestand basic commants like go up, down or to learn to count in greek. Those games are done using their first language and step by step the greek language.
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Federica (Australia)
Federica (Australia)
I am used to embed students’ L2s in my lessons and I do encourage multilingual children to teach me keywords and simple expressions in their home languages. I do it quite naturally because I have a passion for foreign languages/cultures but I do it also on purpose because making connections between languages triggers memory hooks and supports vocabulary acquisition. I am now going to take up Nell’s suggestion and start using keywords in relevant L2s to introduce the learning intention of my lessons.
Since I teach in an Australian/Italian bilingual school, every time there is a birthday in the class we sing in both languages. I also encourage children to sing birthday songs and other popular chants in any other languages they know. They love showing off in front of their peers and it is usually hard to stop them.
Saying and chanting numbers in different languages is another favourite activity in my classes. I even had a couple of children who did not want to appear monolingual and pretended to know numbers in a random L2. It was heartening to see them try hard to make up numbers in a different language, so I let them be!
In general, I do include foreign languages in incidental ways in my lessons. However, I still need to learn how to do it in a more intentional, purposeful and consistent way.
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Giselda Costa- Teresina- Piauí- Brasil
Giselda Costa- Teresina- Piauí- Brasil
My first activity in class with different culture ... I always show the power of nonverbal communication - communication of the body ... construction of senses. with videos and presentation among the students.
I use some videos to exemplify and then each group does yours.
eg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fa_GCK-Czqs
My homepage: www.giseldacosta.com

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Raffaella from Genova, Italy
Raffaella from Genova, Italy
I think a crucial factor in choosing activities is the age of the students.
I teach in an adult evening school, so using numbers or rhymes couldn’t be appealing for the students. When we study Italian Literature, I usually invite students to search poems with the same subject or written in the same period in their language and we read them in the original language. Sometimes bilingual students translate the meaning for us. Other times we search information or translation on the web. During pauses between different activities students can speak to each others using the language they prefer. So they can explain things and help each others.
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Andrea Mangiagalli, Italy
Andrea Mangiagalli, Italy
I haven't any problem in giving away my classes control. I mean I'm pretty confortable with any kind of flipped classrooms and I always ask my pupils to give me input to try and develop together how they'll learn how to learn because this is the actual challange of school: not giving info but giving method to check fonts, to perform web search, to understand what should be known by heart or what you don't need to memorize...but then you've to know what and, above all, where looking for knowledges.

As written in point 2.3 I'm going to try a multilingual approach to a English based project, inserting as many link as possible to other students' languages.
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Michela, Italy
Michela, Italy
We use multilingual signs to decorate the walls. We also encourage parents' participation in school activities.
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Kirsten Scotland
Kirsten Scotland
Every year I take part in this competition with my bilingual learners. Learners write poems in their home language then write about it in English - thus developing both languages.
We love it - you can see some examples using #MTOT_SCILT
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Kirsten - Scotland
Kirsten - Scotland
Wow - we always line up in different languages and singing happy birthday in all the home languages :) So lovely to hear others doing this.

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Ioana, Romania
Ioana, Romania
Bilingual education implies a process of mutual learning, enrichment, mutual respect and equal representation of the majority and minority languages. Thus, bilingual education is a perfect tool for an inclusive school based on the integration and harmonization of cultures. Each student learns the other language, learns to learn and respect one another, teaches the foundation of interculturality: cultures, including languages, are equal and only by equal representation of this capital
symbolic and through dialogue between cultures one can speak of a real intercultural exchange.
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Sirpa, Finland
Sirpa, Finland
It seems that many of the examples presented here are by language teachers or primary school teachers. Some seem really good, such as Maria's radio assignment. It is quite difficult to come up with activities which embed linguistic diversity for highschool history and politics, I came up last term during our school's language week with one fun 'Cold War ' assignment which included seven different European languages. The idea was to learn the basic crises and terms related to the Cold War by using the following languages; Swedish, Hungarian, German, Italian, Polish, Catalan and Basque. The students understood that they have to use other languages to understand the ones in question
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A small idea could be to even have your display name = History in each language. Kirsten
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Rita, Italy
Rita, Italy
I think that the simplest and most intuitive activities are the most effective. I would use songs, numbers, nursery rhymes, images. Some years ago I used concrete poetry teaching German (“Konkrete Poesie”).
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Maria Candida-Italy
Maria Candida-Italy
My best experience with multilingual classrooms has been that one of the Erasmusplus project:"Sound of Europe-we are making radio".Here's an example of podcasts students made.Tongue twisters in different languages...https://soundcloud.com/user-345218139

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Iveta Leinberga, Latvia
Iveta Leinberga, Latvia
As I have mentioned before, I teach students from different countries. In one of our lessons we had a team work. My students were divided in two teams. Each team had to write or draw on a board a scheme explaining Present Simple tens and the second team had to present Present Continuous tense. They enjoyed the activity. This activity helped them to cooperate as well as gave them more power. In our next lesson we are going to discuss cultural differences and students will present different words in their own language.
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Silvia, Italy
Silvia, Italy
I think another useful activities could be making drawings and schemes of the arguments learned time by time and trnslate it - with key words - in the different languages that are in the classroom.
Another thing that comes to my mind is making the whole school more multilingual: why not to write multilingual texts for the different places in the school? Tecnology laboratory, library, classrooms, art lab, withe their own multilingual descriptions!
Or another idea is to write multilingual messages to describe the school to the parents that speak a foreign language. I think that these initiatives may make the school more inclusive for all!
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Songs, poems, games, flexible and interactive activities, projects
Songs, poems, games, flexible and interactive activities, projects
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Athena Anastasiadou, Nafpaktos-Greece
Athena Anastasiadou, Nafpaktos-Greece
Since I am an english teacher I try to bring various cultural elements of english culture throughout the year without necessarily having a student coming from there. I try to use National days to let my students know about what people far from us do on specific celebrations!
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Anna Rita from Italy
Anna Rita from Italy
One stimulating activity could be the creation of a tree with the names of feelings and emotions written in different languages.
We could also ask our students to look for meaningful phrases or idioms typical of their mother tongue and write them on the walls of the classroom.
It will be a nice words' decoration.

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Katjusa, Italy
Katjusa, Italy
Greetin g in different home languages avery morning, thanking.
Very simple but rewarding

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K Barrett 5g
Such a simple thing to do during the register in the morning
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Giedre, Lithuania
Giedre, Lithuania
Games, quizes, songs
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Sofia Tsigara, Greece
Sofia Tsigara, Greece
In kindergarten we learn songs in English and Greek.
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I have no experience but I agree with Neil. There are many effective activities vero useful such as key words, role playing, search songs, create posters
I have no experience but I agree with Neil. There are many effective activities vero useful such as key words, role playing, search songs, create posters
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viki dogani, greece
viki dogani, greece
key words in other languages, two or more, poems,
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Violeta, Romania
Violeta, Romania
I think a very good activity it would be to celebrate some holidays togheter, to talk and to share the traditions for this holidays. Other activities: search and play songs in different languages, cross words, traditionals games for different people, competitions with different themes, etc.
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Amelia, Italy
Amelia, Italy
During our English lessons, students are working in groups, because it means that students are more engaged in their learning, which means less time for classroom management. Friendly competition can also be a potent motivator for students.
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Cinzia Centrone, Italy
Cinzia Centrone, Italy
I agree with Nell. For example I find very useful two strategies in the lesson: Key words in different languages and presentatio in ppt made by students in their language on various themes. Curiosity of other students is big. They are involved.
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Krisnel, Italy
Krisnel, Italy
Learning to learn, creativity, communication skills, these are some of the key skills needed by the student. The student must therefore be at the center of learning. Allowing a reciprocal linguistic exchange increases the sense of group class, increasing mutual respect and intriguing students to learn new words, in a language that even up to that point they had never heard before.
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Maddalena Farruggia
Maddalena Farruggia
I think it is very useful to develop the creativity of the students, above all by creating posters with drawings and words in many languages; this creates a class group and the union and mutual respect.
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Mary F. (Italy)
Mary F. (Italy)
I agree with Nell Foster especially about the fact that multilingual activities help children to understand the construction of different languages and above all, allow them to become self-aware when they see that their language is useful .
I think that is important to create lessons where children can interact with other pupils by doing funny things like prepare a dish of another country or speak about international festivals and draw the costumes with other pupils or working in group to prepare a history book of another country .
As Nell Foster explained, it is very important to create "flexibility learning".

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Silvia DM, Italy
Silvia DM, Italy
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Silvia DM, Italy
Silvia DM, Italy
I have tried simple activities with my multilingual classes: we created a poster with HELLO written in different languages during the European day of languages, we introduced ourselves in English and in other different languages (by using the languages of the countries my students come from) and every now and then I ask my students simple questions to compare how English, Italian and their language work.
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Athena Anastasiadou 5g
What a great idea!!

K Barrett 5g
I agree, keep it simple. I think as well it's so good to say hello to each child in their own language
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Konstantina, Greece
Konstantina, Greece
I think that a usefull way is to let students act in the class like a theatre and to express their feelings through the body, the expression of the face and doing gestures that are meaning the same thing in different cultures. I always learn from my students because they can saw me how I can teach different things to different people.
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Rita Xuereb, Malta
Rita Xuereb, Malta
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Anja, Norway
Anja, Norway
I tried to use music, pop songs which use several languages, to increase my pupils' awareness for how different languages sound. There are often words that they recognize, even if they didn't know which language they come from. In my Spanish classes I can encourage the arab speaking pupils to find words they know in a spanish text - there is a lot of shared or similar vocabulary, also in geographic terms.

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Hartmut,Germany
Hartmut,Germany
I think the idea of flexibility is very important. A strict daily routine to realize some points of the curriculum can kill pupils activities and interest in languages.
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Diana, Italy.
Diana, Italy.
I teach English in the Primary School and I organize a lot of activities to capture the attention of children from the age of 5 years to 10. These activities change according to their age and their needs, because their needs change when they grow up. For the children from 5 years to 7 I plan several game activities : they can, for example, play basketball by using balls of different colors and they have to shout the name of the colour when they catch the ball. They can learn, by heart, a short sentence ( such as, for example, " Nice to meet you") and then go round the classroom meeting other children, shaking their hands and saying: "Nice to meet you". I use a lot of toys ( dolls, cars, trains, planes, puppets...) and children can play with them by using some key words or sentences that I teached them. I see that when they can learn by playing they are much more ready to understand and to use what I teached them.

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Rosy (Italy)
Rosy (Italy)
I usually use multilingual teaching materials and it encourages students. I normally do simple activity of daily routine(birthday song or typical dish) and children share the same language to plan an activity together. Children love it. Foreign students enoyed when others students ask questions or are interesting in their culture and language. They became active participants in constructing learning opportunities. They became aware that their language is useful.
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Sofia Kotsou, Greece
Sofia Kotsou, Greece
Last year, i ask every day from my students to share with me every day a word. For example the first day we say the word "goodmorning", the next day the word "goodbye" or the frase "I love you". So, with that activity we make a classroom with colorful crafts, because every word was written in a colourful carton. Everybody was curious and interested to the diversity. Students were from Sweden, Thailand, Albania, Romania, Bulgary and Moldova.
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Anis Amouri (Tunisia )
Anis Amouri (Tunisia )
i am a fine art teacher,in my class sometimes I choose a theme of work, or a word for example peace, war, nature,
and I encourage students to draw, they can reproduce in many languages with many sizes and colors, they will have the chance to write in their native language.
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Claudia Mazzone from Naples - Italy
Claudia Mazzone from Naples - Italy
Last year, in my classroom I proposed to students a project entitled "Create a small legal dictionary in different languages". The project consisted of creating a dictionary in which gathering the main legal terms in the different students' mother tongues . It was a very effective job. All the students felt protagonists and participated in the project with interest and enthusiasm. As a teacher, I came out enriched and with a greater awareness of my students' attitudes and skills.
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K Barrett 5g
Great way of using their skills
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nonimo 1m
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Rovena Trivanović
Rovena Trivanović
Croatia
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Daniela G, Romania
Daniela G, Romania
I think that the best way to create a effective learning process in a multilingual classroom is to work with group of students.
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Lia Molini from Italy
Lia Molini from Italy
Some years ago I taught in a very multicultural school : about 30% of students were from China, Morocco, Romania and Albania. We had a plurilanguage curriculum project : it was about two topics, water and food. About water students created slogans into different languages to promote the aware use of water in everyday life; about food parents, students and teachers made a recipe book into three languages . It was funny and very successful.
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Elisabetta, Italy
Elisabetta, Italy
I had experience in using graph organisers like concept maps to show keywords. Moreover, I have been creating different projects who involve foreign students and Italians to construct language opportunity to become self-aware of other languages, usage and culture. Once I organized activity where students from different countries could compare their cuisine and habits. I received positive feedbacks and was more motivate to work in such a way.

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Ezel Tuna -Bursa/ Turkey
Ezel Tuna -Bursa/ Turkey
We have prepared a banner that shows the words of the countries that say hello to children and children in different languages. We did a fun activity saying hello words with children in these different languages.

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Irene S., Italy
Irene S., Italy
Students choose a topic, working in language groups they elicit the key words in different languages and then each group prepares the lesson and discusses with the rest of the class.
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Ilaria, Puglia, Italy
Ilaria, Puglia, Italy

Class activity
Reception for newly arrived students
- Guided conversations and confrontation aimed at the knowledge among the students.
- Reading of simple autobiographies - stimulation and production of personal autobiographies.
- Reading of fairy tales, nursery rhymes, stories from other countries.
- Direct testimonies of students or parents on the customs and traditions of the country of origin.
- Songs, dances, games, foods ... typical of our country compared to those of others.
- Group games aimed at promoting the values of respect.
- Respect for the rights of the child in other countries
- Individualized interventions.
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Laura, Italy
Laura, Italy
These activities are very similar toflipped classroom activities
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Sara, Portugal
Sara, Portugal
I think that activities with music are always appealing for kids and if we do a fun thing they will learn faster and with more involvement and curiosity.
One funy game it´s show the pupils a image file and ask them to say what they are seeing in them mother language.
We always can development a small projects where we can involve they families and learn about them languages, traditions and countries.
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Laura,Sicily
Laura,Sicily
In my opinion, the best way to create a effective learning process in a multilingual classroom is to organise group of students and to ask them to plan a lesson in different languages. Students are supposed to explain their lesson in their mother tongue trying to underline key words.Everyone can benefit from each other and they become the true characters of learning process.
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Maria Rosaria ,Italy
Maria Rosaria ,Italy
I had some Russian and Maroccan pupils and usually on the occasion of some festivity I invite them to sing their typical songs or to speak about their habits and traditions
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Victoria
Victoria
I think art helps to unblocked and ICT tools too as creative activities. Something common to understand something different as a part of community.
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Rovena Trivanović
Rovena Trivanović
Croatia
I like Nell's ideas.
Music,as some teachers have mentioned is a very powerful means of teaching. You can play only instrumental and ask your students to tell you what they hear,feel,see and the task can be done in the languages spoken in your classroom. My colleague Petra Kokeza and I take part in one eTwinning project where our students make videos with greetings in sign languages
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İSHAK KURT - MANİSA - TURKEY
İSHAK KURT - MANİSA - TURKEY
Activities such as singing of national anthems, singing of simple children's songs in different languages, reading of internationally known stories in different languages (Little Red Riding Hood) are also useful for creating a common language in the classroom and for the discovery of different languages and the discovery of similar words.
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Sandra Leite - Portugal
Sandra Leite - Portugal
It is always good, in my view, to work collaboratively and cooperatively with the students in our classrooms and starting small projects with children would be ideal. We could even start counting numbers in different languages and display them on posters. Make theatricals about the traditions of the different countries represented, among others.
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I was teaching in a school which allowed me to use multilingual languages. I was teaching story telling to my students in the classroom. After teaching for one week i saw that some of the students were not able to speak even a single line of the story. Then i asked them about what was the problem and after asking so many times they answered that they do not understand anything in the classroom because the story was totally in English. Then i saw that only few of the students could understood the story in English. There were students who could only understand Punjabi or Hindi. So, I asked the teachers to help me write that story in which i can use all the languages so that students could understands also and more than that they could enjoy the story. After that i always wrote the stories beforehand with the help of other subjects teachers. This small effort made the students so happy and after that if they had any problem in understanding in the future in any subject. They always came to me and told me about that.
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Ela, Poland
Ela, Poland

In my opinion, one of the best activity is using ICT tools. My pupils create e.g. comics Toondoo or Makebeliefscomix. They write in the balloons multilingual words. In our school pupils learn English, French, Russian and German. Another example of language activity is Reader`s Theatre. Students and I love it ! They have a lot of fun and good exercise of language`s pronunciation. Let`s see the children`s performances on YouTube.
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Rita Luiso
Rita Luiso
Last year, in my class there were students of East Europe and I asked them to speak about festivity and what kind food people, in their different nations ate in that occasion. I asked them writing recipes and preparing the typical food.
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Zeynep Taş Yardımcı, Turkey
Zeynep Taş Yardımcı, Turkey
Another example of classroom activity would be exchanging the cultural elements by presenting the other group of students' culture, music or dances. For example, a group of Turkish pupils would learn and present French cultural elements, their music or dances and the pupils who speak French would do the same with Turkish cultural elements. This would be so fun and a different perspective in a multilingual classroom.
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Anna Kaya, Sweden
Anna Kaya, Sweden
We make a "Language of the month"-posters together with our students. We write mulilingual word lists during lessons. We compare languages according to grammar, word order or pronunciation - that is ususally a lot of fun. Especially when I try to speak arabic or so.
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Perfect!
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José Lopes, Guarda, Portugal
José Lopes, Guarda, Portugal
As a secondary teacher this kind of aproach isn´t easy or usefull except if you have pupils from other countries. Anyway, primary school would always be the perfect environment to apply this type of approach. The examples given are one of many possible taking in mind that it never can be any pressure to complete a curriculum. This kind of practice is of much use if the students may guide the process and teachers are there only to tutoring the whole learning processes
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Antonino, Italy
Antonino, Italy
I think that music is a very good way to create a relaxing atmosphere and a creative one. Choosing some important words in different languages and make them sing the songs and understand the meaning.
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zeynep taş 6g
I totally agree!

Rovena Trivanović 6g
I agree that music is really a great means of teaching!
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Allora the ideale are very good buttare notizie easy to realizzazione
Allora the ideale are very good buttare notizie easy to realizzazione
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Anonimo 6g
Sorry
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David Navas, Spain
David Navas, Spain
Make poster about idioms. Make calendars.
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Anonimo 6g
This is a good idea
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Mariagle, Italy
Mariagle, Italy
I have hade some experiences with some of the examples Nell has shared, for example we sang "happy birthday" in several language. We play "bingo" in three languages, or we wrote "hello" in several languages. In an Erasmus project we wrote in 6 different languages all the polite sentences such as "excuse-me, sorry, can I go out,...". But the big problem is the evaluation and the official programme to follow, there are all very interesting activities, but they often take time to the traditional programme. I would like not to give marks in my lessons!
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Pirjo, Finland
Pirjo, Finland
Counting, greetings, days of the week, months, names of foods and drinks, finding differences but most of all similarities.
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MARY
MARY
I will follow her advices!
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Raul C, Spain
Raul C, Spain
I have listened the video and i have readed your advice. My conclusion is that i have to do more for knowing and using other languages. May be i use English sometimes but this is not enought
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Renata. Lithuani
Renata. Lithuani
Nell's ideas are very lovely :). I use music for students, they must translate every song their are singing, because they must to know about what it is. Play games, where conect languages and students
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Filomena, Italy
Filomena, Italy

I invite non-Italian students to introduce themselves in their own language and to tell us about them.

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Daniela, Italy
Daniela, Italy
Nell
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Daniela, Italy
Daniela, Italy
Nell gave us very nice ideas, how to take into account language differences in a classroom. I will follow her advices!
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Bondar Gladiola, Borca - Romania
Bondar Gladiola, Borca - Romania

Verses of a song we sing in different languages (Romanian, English, French, Italian)
We solve math exercises in the child's language. We participate in e-Twinning projects.

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Stefania, Italy
Stefania, Italy
I often promote this above all for maths. Two years ago, the third, fourth and five primary classes realized the typical Italian, English, Arabic and Romanian lunch menu. They were surprised because the menu were totally different from their. In my opinion this is also learning.

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Brigida Calise, Italy
Brigida Calise, Italy
As a new year starts I usually ask my students for self introductions and, I ask my foreign students for self introductions in their own languages. That's useful and interesting for everyone.
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Marina, Italy
Marina, Italy
I teach English and at the end of the year I always spare some of my classes for my students to teach their native languages. Arabic, Romanian for example
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Eda,Turkey
Eda,Turkey
I agree with Nell, songs are definitely working.Last year,my students translate a recipe about an Irish meal.They were surprised because the meal was totally different from theirs.Maybe stories can be good options.When they share stories with the other cultures,they can learn different things belonging to each other.
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magdalena Uleia
magdalena Uleia
Some time ago I teach in French for Math classes . The students have Literature profile and they like very much !
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İMRAN ARSLAN
İMRAN ARSLAN
Öğrenciler için metni farklı dillerde anahtar kelimelerle hazırlıyorum. Farklı dilleri kullanan öğrencileri kültürlerini temsil etmeye davet ettim. Sınıf içindeki farklı dilleri kullanarak günlük aktivitelerde kullanılan farklı dilleri öğrencilerimin birbirlerine öğretmelerine fırsat sağlıyorum. Müzik, Matematik, selamlaşma vb.
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Alessandra Amideo,
Alessandra Amideo,
ITALY

I teach Italian literature and history, I like to share linguistic and historical paths with students different from the culture of the host country. I often ask the bilingual student to explain to his classmates his city of origin. All strictly in a foreign language and explained with simultaneous translation. The LIM is extremely important with images and captions that illustrate the cultural journey chosen by the pupil.
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Roberto, Forlì, Italy
Roberto, Forlì, Italy
In my Electronics course I always provide the main technical terms both in Italian and English. However, I could improve the multilingualism by asking the foreign students (from China, Romania, etc...) to write and pronounce those terms in their own language. I think this would be a really funny activity, and I also would learn a lot.
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Anonimo 6g
I'll do the same!
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FRANCESCA BORMIO ITALY
FRANCESCA BORMIO ITALY
I teach economics and the foreign studest can talk about the economical back ground of their countries, the cultural and social different perspectives which belong to another ways of life;
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Daniela Galea, Malta
Daniela Galea, Malta
Nell's ideas are great! I always try to include different scenarios and activities related to different countries together with their culture and food. We discuss the differences between each country and its traditions. It is very interesting for the students to learn these things
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Anonimo 6g
Food is always good to discuss
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Ana, Lisbon PT
Ana, Lisbon PT
I think Nell's ideas are very good and really easy to put in practice in my class. As I told you, I teach arts, so it's always easier than in other class subjects. We usualy learn how to say the colours in every student language, and the name of the materials that we normally use, such as pencil, colour pencils, rubber, scissors and other things. Foreign students like very much to teach the others and they feel very proud to do it. In this way, portuguese students can experience how difficult is to foreign ones to memorize and correctly use new and strange words.
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Rovena Trivanović 6g
Nice work!
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Lucia, Italy
Lucia, Italy
Two years ago I was lucky to have a romanian student in my class. During lunch time he explained the typical food on Romania and in class he taught some words and numbers in romanian to the other students. It was a cultural enrichment for the whole class.
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Paola T., Palestrina (Italy)
Paola T., Palestrina (Italy)
I thank Nell again for her contributions to this debate. A source of problems with the linguistic diversity in multicultural classrooms often lies in the differences between the language the students use at home and the school language they are required to speak at school. A better insight into the characteristics of school language can yield important information for multilingual classroom practice; it needs to focus on specifies different aspects of five domains of skills: language, literacy, interaction, learning, and presentation. School language, skills, multilingualism are very important key words.
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Daisy. Itali
Daisy. Itali
we focus on different traditions and habits, we ask foreign students to talk about their land and different life style. We try to find similarities, differences in words related to some semantic field.
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Zorica, Serbia
Zorica, Serbia
Yes we are doing that all! We count and sing songs!
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FRANCESCA
FRANCESCA
In the children's school, even if they are small, children with my guide play with the language, also by listening on CDs and using flash cards
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Mariateresa De Mattia Foggia Italy
Mariateresa De Mattia Foggia Italy

I think it is important to accept the pupils' proposals to achieve the linguistic objectives. I invited a foreign pupil to propose a game of his tradition. At the end of the experience all the children knew up to ten in Ukrainian. In the following days the same game has been proposed in Italian and the Ukrainian child has learned the numbers in our language
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Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia- Italy
Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia- Italy
I think it is important to give space to children to express themselves and at the same time to direct their activities towards learning objectives. For example, you could invite children to create songs with their own keywords. Pupils could be encouraged to express themselves with gestures, movements and sounds of words.

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Carmela Alberghina/Italy
Carmela Alberghina/Italy
In my lesson sometimes I start inviting students to talk about the traditions of thei countries trough pratical examples : Proverbs could be a useful link because wisdom of people is similar all over the world and they are very helpful or tonguetwisters too.
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Madalina Cucaila,
Madalina Cucaila,
Romania
They can present their country, giver a speech in their language, celebrate their traditions.
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HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY
HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY
The basis of success in this regard is dedication and effort.
I prepare the text for students with the key words in different language. I have also invited the students from different countries to represent their country and my students
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Varvara, Latvia
Varvara, Latvia
i prepare the text for students with the key words in different languages. I have also invited the students from different countries to represent their country and my students have done the same. They should also give a speech on family traditions in their country , that's give the opportunity to understand their culture better.
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lara italy
lara italy
Each group with different groups should presents key words in different languages, or use another language or languages in everyday routine in class.
They should create a cultural box in which each part is explained in different languages
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Sema, TURKEY

semasaltik78 — 2018-10-07 09:32:02 UTC

I don't have much experience of multilingual projects but I have some students from Syria, Iraq, Sudan and Russia in this new school year and all of them can speak Turkish fluently. Firstly, I completely agree with Nell's and the friends idea that implementing some school activities such as games, songs, tongue twisters, poems, idioms and poster presentations will be very useful to empower students language learning, they improve some positive attitudes towards other.

At the beginning of the year, we played some ice breaking activities in the classroom.They introduced themselves and their countries by using some words in their mothertongue as well and it was a very good way to integrate the different language and culture in the classroom to increase the motivation. They also prepared a school board to celebrate languages and
will participate an eTwinning project at the end of October.

Bilingual School

2018-10-07 09:40:22 UTC

As a school any class we teach in English we try to ensure that the key vocabulary and main instructions are translated into Swedish. This helps the children work more independently. It is nice to add small areas of other languages such as saying hello in different languages in the register.

Silvana from Italy

silvana_povolo — 2018-10-07 09:43:04 UTC

I find Nell’s tips to engage learners to share their home language very useful. I do not have children, but teens so it is somehow different to make them participate. Learners’ age is also a problem. You have to handle with their teenagers’ embarrassment.

Giving learners the opportunity to be active participants in their learning can be the best practice for teenagers. Making peer-to-peer learning in groups with the use of text, keywords or simple speaking games could be a way of integrating the different languages.

Teens love kahoot game and this could be used for this.

I always make them some example of words in all the languages I now, and some times tried to involved students of other mother language (for example Romanian, Chinese).

Once I tried to make them learn the element nitrogen in different languages. They liked the idea of learning words in other languages.

Albert from Catalonia

apanade4 — 2018-10-07 10:17:20 UTC

I don't have any experiencies to write about, but I was thinking about how to learn the different parts of whatever machine.
For example, you can explain the different parts and afterwards the pupils can fill the blanks in their mother tongue. After that the teacher can complete the parts in a list in every tongue in the class.

Claudia R., italy

2018-10-07 12:01:06 UTC

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Claudia Italy

2018-10-07 12:02:57 UTC

In the middle of the year we organize party at school with familily sharing languages Songs food film

Giusy

2018-10-07 13:47:33 UTC

I have no practical experience of activities carried out in the classroom. I really like Nell's ideas. In my classroom I would propose a cultural comparison on food.

Vanessa, Italy

vanessa_ridolfi — 2018-10-07 13:50:08 UTC

I have no direct experience , but this month I'll start by asking my foreign students to present their traditional food in English, and to translate the ingredients into their mother tongue language, in order to share the new their with their classmates.

Joanna,Poland

2018-10-07 14:05:34 UTC

In my English language classes we often make lists of "false friends" as well as "words for free" in the students' own languages . I often refer to history , culture and customs and let students compare .My school also organizes festivals where students have an opportunity to present their heritage .

Amelia, Italy

2018-10-07 14:06:26 UTC

I do have experience of mixing languages up in class, as I did it for a quite a while when I was a kid, brought up bilingually, English and Italian. In my class, I always tell students off in Spanish, just a couple of words and it works and they learnt it. What I also do very often is to use calque to let them understand and figure out what's in a language. My favourite calque is the days of the week, involving various languages: Latin, Italian, English, Spanish and French and I must admit they are really impressed.

Patrizia, Italy

2018-10-07 14:06:32 UTC

In my classes I often propose an activity based on the use of songs from all over the world. I ask each student to present to their classmates a very representative song of their country. Each song is explained starting from the text in the original language.

Implementing multicultural classroom activities

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Lucica, Romania

birlea_lucia — 2018-10-07 15:47:46 UTC

I didn't have an experience of mixing languages but in our village are strangers families and my students comunicate with its in english language. It is an opportunity for our. We sing songs in different language and we are opened for new things.

Sophia. Italy

sophia_danesino — 2018-10-07 16:03:19 UTC

In my classes it would be quite difficult to apply the examples Nell has shared. During my CLIL lessons I frequently compare the English structure of a sentence and the one we use in Italian, and that's interesting as you see that there's no huge difference between them. I'll try to compare Romanian too as there are few students coming from there.

Giorgia, Romania

giorgiagroza — 2018-10-07 16:22:31 UTC

There are a lot of activities that can be developed in order to learn a new language. we can sing or count or we can allow children to use some translate programms

Jordi, Catalunya

2018-10-07 16:25:07 UTC

My only experience is with the class content vocabulary. Not always, but sometimes I ask them about how can they say specific words in their first language. It's curious that sometimes surprisingly they don't how to say it. It's true that I teach technical content.

2018-10-07 16:52:05 UTC

Jordi, Catalunya Jordi, Catalunya My only experience is with the class content vocabulary. Not always, but sometimes I ask them about how can they say specific words in their first language. It's curious that sometimes surprisingly they don't how to say it. It's true that I teach technical content. Giorgia, Romania Giorgia, Romania There are a lot of activities that can be developed in order to learn a new language. we can sing or count or we can allow children to use some translate programms Sophia. Italy Sophia. Italy In my classes it would be quite difficult to apply the examples Nell has shared. During my CLIL lessons I frequently compare the English structure of a sentence and the one we use in Italian, and that's interesting as you see that there's no huge difference between them. I'll try to compare Romanian too as there are few students coming from there. Lucica, Romania Lucica, Romania I didn't have an experience of mixing languages but in our village are strangers families and my students comunicate with its in english language. It is an opportunity for our. We sing songs in different language and we are opened for new things. Implementing multicultural classroom activities Implementing multicultural classroom activities Anna, Italy Amelia, Italy Amelia, Italy I do have experience of mixing lan

Erika, Italy

szazie — 2018-10-07 17:22:23 UTC

As I wrote in the previous comment, during these two years, I implemented a few activities (multilingual creative projects) very similar to the activities shared by Nell.

-Two years ago I asked three students (a Syrian boy, an Egyptian boy and an Ecuadorian girl), who were nine years old and who were Italian dominant bilingual (the boys)/Spanish dominant bilingual (the girl), to bring a recipe of a specific food of their homelands. They did their homework, but all of them decided to write it in Italian! I made a mistake, because I did not ask them to rewrite it using the other languages they knew, anyway..we made a beautiful and colourful poster that included all the recipes.

-Two years ago I asked two girls who were Arabic dominant bilingual (an Egyptian girl and a Moroccan girl) and who were nine years old to translate a short poem using their mother tongues.
They did it and they prepared two beautiful drawings related to the poem.
It was a wonderful experience and I want to repeat it with many more students, absolutely!.

-Last year I asked one Moroccan student (an Italian dominant bilingual girl), who was seven years old and who was learning to write and to read Arabic (attending the Arabic School in Milan), to teach me how to pronounce the numbers from 1 to 10 in Arabic. I remember that we laughed a lot because my pronunciation was horrible and I tended to forget what i had just learnt.
-Two weeks ago, after reading a fragment taken from the Sepulveda’s book “The Story of a Seagull and the Cat who taught her to fly”, I convinced the same student to make a drawing, using the programme Paint. She wrote the word “cat” using all the languages she wanted. She chose six languages: Arabic, Italian, French, English, Chinese and Russian. It was a successful activity!.

Finally, last week, I persuaded all my students to prepare a poster where everyone had to write one of the Key-Words learnt during the Project “Citizenship and Costitution”. All the words had to be written using all the languages my pupils know. We haven’t finished the poster yet, but, during the activity, all the children seemed quite excited and happy.

Considering the other suggestions provided by Nell, I intend to design a new project:
Different groups of students will have to carry out research on a specific topic using all the languages they know.

As Nell said, this kind of activity should promote the use of the mother tongues spoken by the students as a real didactic resource. Furthermore it should support interactions and cooperation among students who speak the same language.

Finally, in order to improve my students’ memory and metalinguistic competence I will go on asking children to make comparisons between the languages they already know and to reflect about the peculiarity of their linguist mistakes.

The comparisons will concern the key words or particular expressions my students will learn within the project Citizenship and Costitution.
To accomplish these tasks they will be able to use all the translation programmes they want.

Elizabeta, R. Macedonia

2018-10-07 17:34:07 UTC

I have no experience in those activities. But special activities could be developed in science lessons. To group students for exp slavic, arabic, italian-spanish-portuguese, and to ask them to make poster presentation, or some text and every of them could have their own part in domestic language.Or a song, they could sing part of the song in their language.

Stefania Carolina, Italy

2018-10-07 17:35:39 UTC

I usullay propose basic activities like Season multilingual posters or multilingual nursery rhymes to my 3rd grade Primary School children, because, even if simple, they are effective exercises to embed linguistic diversity. My children love them. I think that I Coding could be a good opportunity too: I may use tools like BlueBot or BeeBot and sk children to code them using different languages. I want to try!

Victoria

2018-10-07 18:13:47 UTC

Giving key word and at this way to build the language and find the common and different parts is an interesting project. That wonders me is the shortage of time in class as we run to do things.

Malvina , Italy n my class with an etwinning project we wrote the rules to be at the table ... each partner country translated them into their own language, it was interesting to know other languages

2018-10-07 18:26:20 UTC

Pantaleo. Italy

2018-10-07 19:26:55 UTC

The exaples Neil has shared are interesting but more useful for primary school. Anyway , even in secondary schools students could build their own maps or flux diagram using different languages

Cinzia, Bergamo, Italy

cinzfior — 2018-10-07 19:34:35 UTC

I always find very interesting to share traditions and some words related to them. Students are always very curious and try to learn more about their foreign classmates.

Irene from Rome

2018-10-07 19:35:34 UTC

Some years ago I taught in a kindergarten school where there were lots of pupils from other countries and some of them were new arrively children so they didn’t speak and didn’t understand the language of schooling. me and my collegues planned activities to promote a friendly learning in order to make feel welcomes pupils and their families. So we taught our students the greetings in the different languages of the classroom and their names in the original Language. In addition we invited parents and grannies to do snack togheter eating their traditional food. During the principal festivities, we asked to pupils to teach some their traditional songs, like happy birthday, or the months and seasonS names. It was a great experience both for pupils which Learnt about the cultural and linguistic difference of their classmates and for me and my collegues.

Martine, Ivry, France

2018-10-07 19:47:33 UTC

With 15 year old students coming from 10 different countries, in a Biology class, we learnt how food could be preserved : salted, heated, transformed by microorganisms. Students in groups asked their families, came with information that we sorted. We investigated the various processes, checking they were safe and efficient. The final task was a poster written in at least two languages. Teaching was not as "safe" as usual : as a teacher it was not possible to understand all the student talks, but the results were so rewarding : enthousiastic students, magnificient posters, real science investigations, admiration between students and as a consequence a really happy teacher!

Laura, Italy

luchelau11 — 2018-10-07 19:55:20 UTC

As I said in the previous comment, last year I proposed to my students an activity similar to those suggested by Nell. I assigned a famous way of saying in their country, as a task to write in the language of origin, to be carried out at home with the family. The next lesson each student read and translated their text to their peers. After listening, we made a poster with the respective flags, which is still attached to the wall of our school.

Paola, Florence-Italy

paola_riello — 2018-10-07 20:03:49 UTC

I'm working on a project on friendship... This week I'll ask my students to draw and write their ideas of friendship using all their second/third/fourth languages and we will later compare the words/concepts/cultures/drawings... I'm looking forward to the results!

Vladimiro Italy

2018-10-08 08:53:45 UTC

Unfortunately, I have no experience with the examples that Nell reported.

Moreno, Rieti (Italy)

2018-10-08 13:15:39 UTC

It's difficult to have in a class an huge amount of students talking the same languages, different from that of the natives of the class. It could be interesting to make students a sort of teachers: they could teach to the rest of the class some more usual words in their language and the main sentences to use in their native nation. Thic could be an moment of interracial growth for the whole class.

Maiken, Germany

2018-10-08 15:13:27 UTC

I had the students sing Happy Birthday in different languages, which the class loved, but some pupils were too shy to sing on their own. Sometimes when I introduce a new grammar topic in a language classroom I try to use the knowledge of another language to make the pupils think and compare how grammar works in different languages.

Laura Brescia

laura_badalini — 2018-10-08 16:00:04 UTC

I teach in a secondary school in clil methodology and so I use a second language to explain content :This helps to create a multilingual approach to the lesson because a new language involves new culture and new learning awarness .

Valentina, Italy

ditranivale — 2018-10-08 16:08:08 UTC

Usually, during a Grammar lesson, I try to compare different grammatical structure and students share their own knowledge. Doing this work, I often realize that students don’t have a solid skill neither in their own language. In fact very often they don’t know very well their native language. So, I think that for this reason it’s important to underline the value that they have. It’s a pity to lose one’s culture and language.

Hanife, Turkey

2018-10-08 17:33:12 UTC

I don't have an experience similar to Nell but I can say a few words about my own experience. In my previous school, my students try to teach me some words that they talk with their family, friends and neighbours. As a language teacher, I am interested in words and words give reference about the culture. So sometimes when I taught them new vocabulary, they tried to teach me a new word. When I was interested, thety felt happy and ıt was an important thing for me to feel happy during the lesson.

Amanpreet, India

2018-10-08 17:36:20 UTC

Actually I don't have any experience similar to Nell but I have few ideas with me for implementing the same. According to me at the starting of every session every year all the students should be directed to give their respective introduction in their mother tongue which will definitely fill them with full of enthusiasm as well as confident. After that there should be a cultural activity organized once a month in which each student will perform in their mother tongue and in their performance they will tell about their culture by which every student will able to learn more cultures.

Ayşe,Turkey

fable_tugcee_90 — 2018-10-08 18:41:36 UTC

I don't haveany experiences.

Daniela from Parma, Italy

2018-10-08 20:20:37 UTC

When I was a primary teacher I had lots of opportunities to let different languages enter the class: counting, rhymes, lullabies....
Now that I teach in Secondary school it's more difficult. However, sometimes I ask them to use a counting rhyme in a different language or to translate a word. They aren't real activities, but I think they can consider it as a way of pointing at their resources.

Christos, Greece

christos_chachoudis — 2018-10-08 20:57:19 UTC

I have small experience but the thing that I always do when I have to deal with multilingual students is that I am open to learn some expression in their language and we use computer programms to facilitate our communication. I have to say that I am willing to try and more activities from the ideas I took from Nell

Mocriș Melissa,Romania

2018-10-08 21:32:57 UTC

I do have experience with one of the examples that Nell has shared; it is eliciting the key words of the lesson in 2 different languages. Kids loved it and I believe they understood better the words. I also think that those words once learned in this way got implemented in their mind.

Omisha, India

omishachhabra100 — 2018-10-09 07:35:16 UTC

Though I have not experienced anything like this but I totally agree with Nell. We

Iulia, Romania

julix_2007 — 2018-10-09 09:34:43 UTC

Every year, we celebrate European Language Day and we try to learn some usual words in as many European languages as possible.

MARIA ITALY

soleconcetta96 — 2018-10-09 14:20:07 UTC

I' VE NEVER TEACH IN A MULTILINGUAL CLASS, ANYWAY I THINK THAT INTERESTING ACTIVITIES LIKE THOSE PROPOSED BY NELL SHOULD BE DONE ONLY FOR A LIMITED PERIOD OF THE SCHOOL YEAR BECAUSE THE TARGET LANGUAGE HAS TO BE ONE FOR ALL THE STUDENTS ABOVE ALL WITH SUBJECTS LIKE SCIENCE, HISTORY OR LITERATURE.

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2018-10-09 15:27:53 UTC

I teach English in a Primary SchooI. I think teachers could interact with children speaking different languages through posters, songs, games. This kind of activities are amusing and they could help children to know each other, improving understanding and facilitating communication.

2018-10-09 15:27:55 UTC

Maria Rosaria

2018-10-09 17:28:41 UTC

I think we can start with comparing sports and thinking about the rules that are universal. I have no experiences concerning these activities. . I have no experiences concerning these activities.

Nicoleta, Romania

2018-10-09 18:33:14 UTC

When I notice my pupils a little bit tired I appeal to short intelectual breaks through which I try to not lose their attention, so I count, sing, tell jokes, play games, especially sing, both in Romanian and in English.

Catalina

vrinceanu09 — 2018-10-09 19:27:36 UTC

Students speaking different languages in the same class should be seen as a challenge for them to learn words/phrases in a new language

Lorina, Romania

2018-10-09 19:36:53 UTC

I like Nell's activities. I have even used some of them. We can use everyday language and things that all the children are interested in

Emilia,Romania

teacherro — 2018-10-09 20:50:38 UTC

I liked the ideas Nell's proposed and it's important that the teacher be flexible and use also students' languages as a resource.Projects, short stories, songs, icebreakers are fun to have multilingual elements.In order for those students speaking other languages be involved, included in the classroom, integrating his cultural heritage -asking them to bring something from their country tangible or intangible in the classroom, these things, I think make them feel appreciated and we make them be active in the class and maybe learn with pleasure and easier.

Clara, Portugal

acjesus — 2018-10-09 21:03:27 UTC

I teach Health subjects in a secondary school and I try to use CLIL methodology, and as much as I can, I use English as a second language to explain content (for example, my students worked in projects about digestive system both in Portuguese and English).
Using a second language, we are developing a multilingual approach and at the same time, we are introducing a new culture and new learning awareness.

shukufa_n — 2018-10-10 04:33:13 UTC

I think teachers could interact with children speaking different languages through posters, songs, games. This kind of activities are amusing and they could help children to know each other, improving understanding and facilitating communication.

Shukufa Najafova

shukufa_n — 2018-10-10 04:38:44 UTC

Ismailli, Azerbaijan

I like Nell's activities. I have even used some of them. We can use everyday language and things that all the children are interested in. I think teachers could interact with children speaking different languages through posters, songs, games. This kind of activities are amusing and they could help children to know each other, improving understanding and facilitating communication. In my first grade student’s lesson, I prefer teaching by songs. Because students like amusing during the lesson. At the same time, I teach them by games. But in my 11^th grades I teach my students using different activities. I use four skills activities like listening/speaking, reading, and writing. My students like listening activities most of all.

Pardeep kaur,india

pardeepkaur9aug1994 — 2018-10-10 05:07:03 UTC

Pupils has to present something special of tjeir culture. it will be very motivating

Manpreet Kaur, India

2018-10-10 08:03:18 UTC

Actually I don't have any experience similar as Nell but I have few ideas with me for implementing the same. According to me at the starting of the every session every year students should be directed to give their respective introduction in their mother tongue which fill them with confidence

Odarka, Latvia

2018-10-10 09:05:34 UTC

I invite different students from different countries to share their experience with us.I use a lot of CLIL activities, for example, an activity for students, who study hospitality, I have organised some lessons at the hotel, so that they could feel the atmosphere and learn the terminology.

Annamaria,

annamariamazzacuva — 2018-10-10 09:21:32 UTC

I haven’t had any experience Nell talmente about, but usually in my lessons I ask students to present themselves in their mother tongue

Francesca, Ireland

2018-10-10 09:48:41 UTC

With the students I play games, teach them sign language, listen to songs, write comic books, and do multilingual art. I have put together a book of activities so I can creatively use them with different groups when I need them.

Pina, Italy

2018-10-10 15:11:59 UTC

In every claas I spend two hours a week to introduce tales from different countries. We read together, we tell in different languages the same tale and we put in evidence some similar structures or idioms. Then students have to write the story in their words and to paint characthers

MRosaria

2018-10-10 16:24:41 UTC

I haven't done any activities Nell talked about except counting, or basic expressions used by students in the classroom. But It is a good start!

Tiziana Panaro, Italy

tizianapanaro — 2018-10-10 17:56:11 UTC

I think the most motivating activities could be those related to the students' original culture and background e.g. preparing some typical recipes to be offered to all the students and presented in the original language with the translation in L2. The same thing could be done with engaging games, sport, dances, poems, projects and reserches on poets or writers which could be introduced and commented in the L1 and at the same time translated and presented in the L2. I guess this should be the best practices I would use in a multilingual class because the students would feel as the protagonists and not the people who use a different and unimportant language. This would bring unity and wealth to the whole class.

özge ,türkiye

sevgiylebebek — 2018-10-10 22:35:54 UTC

I have no idea, but I will. think it would be nice things.

Alex_PT

alexandraduarte — 2018-10-10 22:54:46 UTC

The closest I’ve done to what is described by Nell are the activities developed in my school around the 26^th September to mark EDL. We’ve had Italian, Greek, Polish and Arabic language and culture activities but not really embedded in our routines. Even though the students react very well, as said before, I teach in a rural area where there are no refugees at all and very few immigrants and it’s therefore not common to introduce other languages.

Maria, Vinchiaturo (CB), Italy

mariaminicucci — 2018-10-11 07:40:46 UTC

Working in a multilingual classroom in a Primary School is something different from working in a multilingual classroom in a Secondary – Lower or Upper – School!

I have no experience with Nell’s examples and I have no idea about other activities to suggest. I think that CLIL methodology helps to involve foreign students and to embed linguistic diversity.

Rachel, Uk

2018-10-11 08:22:38 UTC

I like a lot of Nell's ideas, but I think that they are mostly suitable for primary aged children. In secondary schools or at universities it will be necessary to take a very different approach. Like Nell, I sometimes have students ask me whether it is okay to use their home language instead of English, which depending on the situation and the students I may or may not agree to. However in terms of embedding language diversity into daily classroom practice seems a bit more daunting.

Tiziana Diso

napoligiusy1959 — 2018-10-11 10:27:23 UTC

Italy
Once I tried to create a competition with my bilingual students. They rewrote the refrain of a song and then we sang it in different languages. It was a wonderful experience and each student felt part of the activity giving one's own added value to the activity.

Fernanda, Portugal

soares_fernanda — 2018-10-11 11:21:18 UTC

As I am teaching English at Primary School (children aged 8/9), I can myself doing what Nell suggested.
For example, in the 3rd grade we start learning "What's your name?" / "How old are you?", numbers and colours and this could be easily done in two or more languages. 4th grade students focus on school activities, food, animals, body, etc. and this can also be done in several languages. Students could even develop projects on these themes in many languages

Christine, Germany

2018-10-11 14:59:53 UTC

With a group of senventh graders I have participated in a project celebrating the European Day of languages. During the project I had them prepare posters about the different languages they speak at home. Native German speakers took a closer look at their dialects. Additionally we exchanged postcards with students from around Europe. This project made the children aware of their language competence and almost everybody could be a language expert for one of the many postcards we received.

Gabriella

2018-10-11 16:55:32 UTC

I take part in eTwinning project ant I usually have partners from Poland, Spain, Greece. We oftenopen the project with a multilingual dictionary about the topic of the project

Carmen from Spain

biologiamencia — 2018-10-11 17:24:26 UTC

lioke othe teachers say, we have participated in etwinning projects and we had a erasmus+ project. The international meetings and the stay in host families, helped the students to be immerse in an environment where a different language was been used. At the end of the experience, they could express basic expressions in a foreing language not their mother tonge or the language used in the erasmus project.

Giuseppina Tumino - Italy

2018-10-11 19:12:30 UTC

I don’t have any experience similar to Nell.

But I think students could build their own maps using different languages to present their traditional foods, monuments, customs and traditions.

Maria Paola Italia

2018-10-11 20:09:00 UTC

In the class with foreign students I introduce the new topic in a simple way and with the Lim I let them listen to the lesson in English. The pupils construct concept maps with the keywords in the different languages and finally with the help of the other classmates, they try to repeat simple sentences using the typical language of the discipline

Stefano, Australia

2018-10-11 23:43:47 UTC

Teaching in a bilingual school we use a number of activities such as routines, key words, songs, word walls, displays, quizzes, flash cards, literacy games, which don't have to be tailored or included in the specific content I'm teaching.

Francesca from Italy

2018-10-12 11:14:25 UTC

I've never experienced a bilingual class but If I had the possibility, I would create quizzes, song..funny activities which involve the students attention

Gabriela, Romania

gabi_petrichei — 2018-10-12 13:32:31 UTC

I think the most engaging activities, no matter the age of the student, are those involving songs, rhymes, pictures, realia

Helen, Spain

helen119 — 2018-10-12 14:30:52 UTC

I don't have any experience in a classroom with multilingual students. However, I really like the concept of allowing students to take charge and share their language (which can be a huge part of their identity).

Nica, Italy

2018-10-12 14:43:53 UTC

I've no experience with these activities but I think students could build presentations or maps or flow chart using their language.

Noe, Puigcerdà

2018-10-12 15:31:51 UTC

Happy to see that empowerment and selfawarness are key point of this new methodologies!! It's all about helping them to cross the path of selfawarness & to become more conscious..
I'm a bit affraid of letting them choose activities, because sometimes the classroom energy is low and they re quite de-motivated.. nevertheless, it's our job to encourage them for a "happy learning"

José Carvalho, Guarda, Portu

joseantoniocarvalho — 2018-10-12 15:53:50 UTC

I have no problem in allowing my students to learn in a foreign language. At this moment, you have to start from my initiative. My students are not very available to learn in another language. I'm looking for small videos, texts, summaries, songs and a little communication to promote their contact with multilingualism. They feel discomfort in doing so because of the difficulties they feel. However, I am so convinced that this is a powerful tool for the future that I maintain the enthusiasm for introducing multilingualism into the classroom.

continuita1 — 2018-10-12 18:07:53 UTC

I'm a language teacher, so I promote contact with other cultures and languages in my classroom as a routine. When teaching English, I always make references to the other languages I know and I often ask my foreign students about vocabulary and structures in their own languages. I love using and comparing different languages! My only experience with newly arrived foreign pupils was with three Chinese students a few years ago. It was easy for me to communicate with them because they spoke a little English. Just now I realize I could do much more to enhance content learning and classroom integration. I think I'll use multilingual group projects to establish a positive multicultural environment in my classroom.

Gioia, Italy

M. Antonietta Leone, Ital

mariaantoniettaleone12 — 2018-10-12 18:11:13 UTC

I don't have much experiencelike Nell. Last year I tried with easy activities: greetings, seasons, numbers to ten.

Ivana, Macedonia

ivannast16 — 2018-10-12 20:20:18 UTC

I have done some simple activities but I would like to try multilingual creative projects.

Divina, Spain

2018-10-12 21:09:55 UTC

I have no experience , but i´m going to start with something easy. I am a PE teacher and I always wait for the students at the gym´s door and say "Good Mornig", so Could be a good ideato ask the students to answer in their own languages.

Nadina Nicolici, Romania

n_nadina — 2018-10-13 07:56:32 UTC

Another activity I think of is related to music - have a song in the language children speak and ask them to teach the rest of us the lyrics and what they mean. Thus, we are exposed not only to that language, but also to that culture.

Elisabetta, Italy

porceddaelisabetta — 2018-10-13 09:38:38 UTC

Working with students, I think it's always important not to hold the reins of their learning, but carefully listening to their different needs and anytime offer them the best strategies and tools. Nonetheless, I think that making use of the different languages of the students is absolutely a welcoming and involving strategy to make them grow up together. Indeed, group tasks, including multilingual maps can be really useful as well.

Eduarda, Portugal

2018-10-13 12:25:55 UTC

Well I haven´t had much exerience so far with mixed classes. However I have already engaged my students in creating their own picture dictionary. They spoke mainly Spanish so they were able to work with 3 different languages: Portuguese, English and Spanish. The final product was a class dictionay with their own drawings and meaningful words.

Elena F:, Italy

2018-10-13 15:12:28 UTC

I agree with Nell Foster: I'll rty to involve more my children in these simple activities and conversations in class, paying attention to their languages as important parts of the learning process in the whole class.
I ask children to tell the class a new word or expression introduced in English (such as family member, greetings, animals, ...) in their language: How do you say in ...? and we have a short conversationa bout It often happens thatthey can't remember, so I say to ask their parents at home and report to the class the next lesson. That's good to involve the family too!

Patrizia Italia

galatipatrzia — 2018-10-13 19:38:19 UTC

I Think that the best way to learn is playing . I would organize a chain game : each student names a word in English, Italian an any other language he knows ; the winner is the pupil that remembers the translation of that word

In the languages of their foreignfellowmates .

GKeserci

2018-10-13 19:50:13 UTC

I agree with Nell

Cinzia, Sicily

2018-10-13 20:01:41 UTC

Nell's ideas are very interesting and innovative; I will try to put them in place with my pupils, letting them have more freedom to shape their learning and activities.

Elisa C., Italy

2018-10-13 20:41:52 UTC

Last year I involved my students in creating bilingual dictionaries that could focus on simple words and pictures, vocabulary relating to everyday topics (such as school, home, the park, body parts, animals, emotions).
I created an evolving word wall in classroom, by posting up useful words and expressions in
students’ home languages (for example, ‘hello’, ‘goodbye’, ‘sorry’, ‘thank you’) inviting them to contribute new words. We used different-coloured pens or card to distinguish the languages as with the labels above.

Dulcínea Portugal

2018-10-13 20:56:16 UTC

I haven,t had much experience with mixed classes. I have students from Brasil and Spain so the language is similar. When I have to explain historical concepts that they also learn in their countries I use them to explain using another language.

Güneş

2018-10-13 21:01:28 UTC

In the previous section, I explained one of my technique that I let my student answer the question in his mother tongue but I ll try to ask him to teach a word on each day to involve him to the class more.

Marilena Sammarco, Italy

marilenasammarco — 2018-10-13 21:10:15 UTC

Some days ago, a pupil coming from Moldavia, sitting near the blackboard, began to write some words in his language on the blackboard. They were unintelligible in their font , completely different from ours. So I called him to read. All were fascinated by the pronunciation , so different from ours. Then I asked the students to guess the meaning of words, the Moldovian pupil gave some clues and they came to guess. Then we translated all into French (because I teach French!!).

Sylwia, Poland

2018-10-14 09:15:43 UTC

Last week some students from our school came back from Ukraine (exchanging), so they presented basic vocabulary like: hello. It was funny and valuable lesson.

Mariella, Italy

mariella_brunaz — 2018-10-14 09:53:04 UTC

An activity that I made with students so that they could teach the basics of their languages was creating lists of words with related games using quizzlet or lessons where students from Poland and from Romania taught some common words and expressions of their language to the class. For a project we also made a multilingual book which included the languages of the class. The students like the activities and the one that was more successful was that where the lesson was organized and implemented by the students (the second one I mentioned).

Elena, Italy

elenalzano — 2018-10-14 10:40:45 UTC

I don't have experiences with the examples shared. Nevertheless I find them very evocative. This video makes me move towards contucting flexible learning opportunities where students are able to became more active and powerful.

Maribel, Spain

2018-10-14 11:54:21 UTC

My students are adults who want to learn English, sometimes it is useful to translate some words because they feel more confident.

I don't have any experience of multilingual classes. In my opinion the Nell' s approach is not effective in a secondary school. Perhaps we could share a specific topic of the foreign culture and ask the student to explain its value. In this way it would be possible to look for a similar topic in the culture of the other classmates.

2018-10-14 14:42:24 UTC

Raffaella, Italy, English primary teacher

2018-10-14 19:59:48 UTC

I think I will make my pupils sing a birthday song in their own language, as well as in English. Also, labelling the classroom with their own words, along with the English ones, such as door, table, window, bookshelf...

Margaret, Poland

2018-10-14 20:34:41 UTC

My experience with linguistic diversity is poor because I don't have foreign students in my class. But it's a fact that they present some words form different languages during my lessons. They are curious what the words mean, even if they are not in English. I think that I should organise a day with languages and show my students some expressions or words which they can remember.

Mustafa BOZOGLAN Mersin Turkiye

mdbozoglan — 2018-10-14 21:31:25 UTC

I had a similar experience with Nell a few times. In order to use the language diversity within the classroom, games, presentations, screenings and posters can be prepared. everyone says a song in their own language in the classroom. then says using the school language in the classroom. they're singing together.

Yasemin Uysal-Muğla-Turkey

YaseminUysal — 2018-10-14 22:05:25 UTC

I do not have any foreign students,in fact I have but they learned Turkish.they are curious about what their friends said and what the words mean.I should organise lots of activities to be able to show the usage of languages

Upasana Tripathi,India

upasana181069_cce — 2018-10-15 03:57:48 UTC

I agree with Nell. I also do the same , i asked to the students to find out the meaning of keywords and to implement them in classroom with classmates and teachers.

Rosa A., Italy

rosaagneta — 2018-10-15 13:32:19 UTC

To encourage a multicultural learning environment, usually I invite my students to give the abstract and 3 or 4 key words of lesson in different languages.

Anna S. Italy

scriminacianna — 2018-10-15 14:57:14 UTC

I did not do any kind of activities like what Nell described. But it reminded me of other activities to do in the context of daily routine. For example, kids could learn to say "can I go to the toilet?" in several languages or "can I drink?" or "I did not understand, can you repeat?" would be a way to include the different languages to the whole class

Maria Covino, Italy

2018-10-15 17:35:58 UTC

Last year I did some multilanguage lessons with my Sirian Student.for example at the beginning of the year we wrote in a poster the greetings in Italian, English, French and Sirian and we all repeated them everyday. we did also other activities where we compared the different languages This year we are going to go on this way to learn foreign languages.

AANCHAL, INDIA

2018-10-15 18:26:36 UTC

In my classroom, I want to do an activity like when they are watching movie and they are not able to understand.
then the language of some students who understands can help them to translate it into a common language which create a multilingual environment.

Cristina, Romania

2018-10-15 18:36:26 UTC

I went with my kids at literature's museum and i put foreign lstudents to find and explain us about somme native writers. It was nice, interesting and amazing!

IRENE – GUARDA, PORTUGAL I often use videos and audios during my classes, and not always all the students understand it. So, I try to motivate those who do to help the others, and they really enjoy it. I believe that using audios and videos helps them to learn and communicate, because they feel more motivated when they ear and see things that are part of their lives.To better understand them, students can translate, can use gestural language to help the others to understand what they are listening / seeing. It’s a strategy that works!

2018-10-15 19:38:43 UTC

Majlinda ,Albania

kmajlinda — 2018-10-15 21:14:31 UTC

I don't have any experience with that,but I like Nell's ideas.I think they can help us to reach our goals.

Mihaela, Romania

salistemihaela — 2018-10-16 14:01:30 UTC

I haven,t had much experience with mixed classes. A few years ago I had one child from Siria. When I have to explai some concepts that they also learn in their countries I use him to explain using another language.

Odete Teixeira, Arouca, Aveiro, Portugal

odete_teixeira — 2018-10-16 14:59:38 UTC

I’ve never created a lesson which embedded linguistic diversity, but I loved Nell’s suggestions: present, for example, some key words for the lesson in 2 or 3 languages; use different languages in classroom routines like singing birthday songs or counting children in the line to the canteen in a different language. These are very simple ideas and I’m sure they’ll love!

2018-10-16 21:09:42 UTC

We made posters with greetings in different languages, flags ,count and write numbers in differenti languages. I‘ve never planned a “ real “ activity .

José María, Spain

2018-10-16 21:10:23 UTC

Unfortunately, I have not known how to create an interesting way to work for these students. There are no problems with the English or French student, but for the Moroccans :( That is the reason why I am here today.

Trini, Spain

2018-10-16 21:48:26 UTC

Basing in the idea of presenting a few words from the lesson in two or three languages... I'm thinking that maybe is a good idea that when we study the countries of Europe, studentes had to write the name in the language this country speaks and select a word (such as "good morning" or "thank you") for being translated by students.

Miriam, Madrid

2018-10-17 06:31:10 UTC

I worked with my multicultural classroom to create a dictionary with words and pictures. Working in this way I could valorize the original culture and in the same time I could help the children to their first approach to Italian language, as well as to learn a specific terminology of school subjects. To the very yang people, work wery well to introduce the simple songs translatable in different languages.

Francesca, Italy

2018-10-17 14:16:35 UTC

I've never worked in a multicultural classroom, but I think it would be a good idea to invite the students to explain first in italian and in english their favourite hobby or subjects; then they could translate theese themes in their native language, so that the boys can express their best self and experience a positive and encouraging comparison with their peers. During the activity they would be followed by a cultural mediator and the teacher. This will be functional to become familiar with the new language and to become aware of the richness of linguistic diversity.

RACHNA

2018-10-17 14:50:37 UTC

classroom activities will also be different and a healthy competition will be there between students. many students of my class like to watch movies in their native language which encourages other students to learn some keywords .

Francesca Barile

francesca_barile50 — 2018-10-17 16:20:30 UTC

I teach in a professional school and students like the laboratory practice. I could suggest them to create on our padlet class a sort on illustrated dictionary of different tools with some important safety rules at work. It could be written into italian, english and into the native language of other the students. This activity will surely help everyone, expecially in creating a collaborative and ideal work in team, just as at work

David I.

2018-10-17 18:27:01 UTC

when going out with my 7y old students I ask my two billingual student to name different things in their own language. I also see other students asking them the names and than trying to pronounce new words ...

Konstantina, Greece

konstantinakokmotou — 2018-10-17 20:26:19 UTC

Linguistic diversity can be integrated in a student- centered classroom.

Erasmo, Italy

2018-10-17 20:57:14 UTC

I teach in a technical school. My students like very much the laboratory experiences. Once I asked them to create poster which illustrated a dictionary of the different lab tools with important safety rules as well. It was written into italian, english and all the native languages of other students countries

Nicoleta,Romania

2018-10-18 06:24:22 UTC

I teach in a technical school. My students meet words from different languages in their learning and I asked them to note the language these words came from. We write greetings in their native language for holidays Easter, Valentine's Day, etc. I think it is hard to apply for every class.

Pablo, Spain

2018-10-18 09:12:59 UTC

Asking our bilingual or multilingual students how to ask for a sheet, to be quiet... those common phrases we could find at every class. We can use those phrases in different languages in different days of the week, for example, Mondays in English, Wednesday in sign language...

Marta Tarantino

martatarantino — 2018-10-18 11:48:24 UTC

All of Nell's examples are very useful ad effective activities: creating lessons involvig the use of the different languages, incorporating the languages in the activities and in the classroom routine and creatig plurilingual projects: all of them succeed in turning pupils into active participants of the learning experience which is at the same time a starting point and a purpose of the educational experience.

Marianna

2018-10-18 14:32:12 UTC

I used tongue twisters in different languages, happy birthday songs, greetings, counting (also gestures change!), key words or small fixed sentences according to the topic in order to think about the structure of a language, but also sound of words that can be linked to the meaning (it works in different languages).
For example to teach Italian to my Chinese students I refer to radicals into Chinese words in order to explain them how words are build up in Italian (root + suffixes).
While doing this activity I always ask them if there is also a cultural meaning behind a specific use of the language (maybe it's easier with teenagers or adult people... but also children can give us interesting suggestions).

Eleni Tychola

2018-10-18 19:12:03 UTC

Every day vocabulary or vocabulary concerning classroom language as well as songs and poems are some good techniques in a multilingual environment. Moreover, I think projects which require collaboration and taking up roles can be of greater help to students as they will have more space to work, communicate, exchange ideas and feel free to use thir mother tongue as well.

Sien

2018-10-19 09:10:17 UTC

In secondary or higher education, students who share the same home languages could be encouraged to draw multilingual glossaries of key concepts of certain subjects, like history or economics.

I think that songs in different languages are good activities.

2018-10-19 16:42:29 UTC

Creating a vocabulary with key words in different languages is a successful idea. The activity of reflecting on the construction of phrase.

Andrei, Romania

2018-10-19 20:33:16 UTC

I think giving students the chance to be in control of the class might be be a good option as they can teach each other through challenging activities like creating bilingual dictionaries of the most common words and expressions.

REMEMBER MY EXPERIENCE

2018-10-19 20:53:47 UTC

among the activities that I remember best and that can represent multilingual activities there are the realization of recipes: I often saw guys who mixed languages and linguistic registers during cooking activities: it improved mood and participation. often the assigned activities were successful and among them the students became more disposable, as if diversity also taught them compassion, that is, knowing how to put oneself in the shoes of the other's effort in communicating

Natalie, Malta

natcal126 — 2018-10-19 21:12:11 UTC

In my opinion what Nell proposes is a practical practice which can easily be adopted in classrooms. With my class whenever we tackle various topics, such as, animals or shapes, we tackle them using the different languages which we have in class. At times we also include sign language even if none of the children are hard of hearing or deaf, but I feel that it is always a good opportunity that children are versatile and if they happen to meet a deaf child, they will have the tools for communication.

roberta

2018-10-20 15:12:45 UTC

the advantages of bilingualism are essentially social, as the comparison with other languages enriches one's baggage. the proposed methodologies are simple to implement in a multilingual classroom but also when working essentially to enhance communication in the mother tongue

Luz, USA

2018-10-20 20:00:38 UTC

I have experience with KEY words in English whose roots are in latin. And Spanish derives from Latin. But this was really for an English for Special Purposes class at university, where I was teaching English for Librarianship and Chemical Engineering. Students were in Lima, Peru. Some students hated English the first days of class, and saw it as a cultural intruder. So at the beginning of every class I introduced a dosis of new words (useful for their specialty) and had some dialogues (role playing) and grammar activities. So in the long run as they recognized the same parenting for terminology, their prejudgment disappeared.

Lucia Italy

luciabucc — 2018-10-21 09:27:15 UTC

I have some short and occasionaly experience in this but it's interesting

Natalia,Italy

2018-10-21 10:48:23 UTC

The idea of giving vocabularies and basing oneself on those can be very nice, it's nice to have a playful and multisensory approach to do activities with songs, nursery rhymes to ementari and maybe to middle schools with many conglomerations on real material comparing the two languages, it takes a lot of commitment and small classes

rachna pahal,India

2018-10-21 17:05:38 UTC

new words each day activity, quiz, facts of different states

Recep Batur, T

2018-10-21 18:36:01 UTC

I give homework it covers some new words to learn and they are supposed to use the new words daily.

Giac,

tecnologiasuardo — 2018-10-21 22:09:14 UTC

Giac, Italy

tecnologiasuardo — 2018-10-21 22:09:19 UTC

new word, new activities, different studies, each day activity

Aurelia, Romania

2018-10-22 05:45:51 UTC

I think students would like to be in control of the class at some point. It would be a challenge for them to to teach each other through interesting activities like creating bilingual dictionaries with the new words and expressions they learn every day. I think these kind of activities will make them more active in the class.

Sylwia, Poland

2018-10-22 11:22:36 UTC

The best way to practice different languages is singing songs, playing games with simple words, showing photos of students' trips to different countries and let them talk about what they discoverd there: new words, culture, lifestyle.

Rania, Greece

2018-10-22 13:05:01 UTC

There are a wide range of classroom activities that can help students recognize the essential humanity and value of different types of languages and people. For instance, providing students with an opportunity to share stories of their home life, such as family holiday practices, provides fellow students with a window into their peer’s cultural traditions.
Another thing you can do is show your students everyday photographs of people of different ethnicities, shapes, sizes, and garb.

Francesca T. italy

2018-10-22 14:25:39 UTC

I think it would be interesting to involve the students in the study of songs and movies with subtitles. Then the students would be asked to repeat the words or espressions they memoirized listening and reading the subtitles.

Laura Patregnani, Italy

2018-10-22 19:02:26 UTC

Two years ago I tought in a second grade class in Bologna. There were half of my pupils that came from another country. So, with my colleagues, we decided to celebrate every culture established the "Day of the Language". Every family brought a typical dish of its country and we spent the afternoon tighter talking one to each other.

S

2018-10-22 20:17:36 UTC

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VALENTINA, ITALY

2018-10-22 20:30:40 UTC

My task is to teach them a foreign language and not a mixture of languages…

HOWEVER USE IS VERY HELPFUL TO TEACH languages in classroom routines like singing birthday songs or counting children in the line to the canteen in a different language.

Monika,India

2018-10-23 12:34:02 UTC

I do agree with the idea of singing songs in different languages or pupils can be asked to share their holiday experiences. We can make them aware of different cultures by showing photographs that belongsto a particular region and using both regional as well as formal language for description.

Claudya, Romania

claudia_neacsa — 2018-10-23 14:57:47 UTC

Especially at the little ones, I use songs, carols, that we could sing in many languages.

2018-10-23 15:07:29 UTC

Mandeep kaur
I’m totally agree, the minds of little ones are
So soft and pure, we can mould our students
According to our wishes. Using carols, song ,
rhymes are the great idea in the clasd

GEETHU MOHAN, INDIA

2018-10-23 16:11:04 UTC

Starting a collection of books, magazines and other reading materials in the languages that my students speak and add those items to their reading corner.

Veronica, Italy

vb_keohane — 2018-10-23 17:17:19 UTC

I teach English as a foreign language to teenagers who are not always so willing to share aspects which regard their native languages. We sometimes compare words to see if there are simularities but it is difficult to go beyond that. I hope this course will help me to do better in the future.

BH

2018-10-23 18:29:08 UTC

BHAVIK, INDIA

2018-10-23 18:29:13 UTC

BHAVIKA, INDIA

2018-10-23 18:29:16 UTC

i would like to take my students to library and ask them to take their respective books which they want to read. i would also ask them to have a look in newspaper daily, red magazines etc.

Ioana MihaelaImplementation of classroom activitiesRoutines, transitionsI subscribe to those presented in the video, pointing to: language troubles, fun alphabet, counts, riddles.These fireworks can be incorporated into the formal curriculum.

2018-10-23 18:35:16 UTC

Romania

Ernesto

2018-10-23 19:44:35 UTC

As mentioned earlier, I do the parts of the body and the names of the various sports in English and when children from different backgrounds are present in other languages. I have in mind to make the students learn the national anthems in English of the various European countries, the children seem very interested.

Laura Ita

2018-10-24 07:57:14 UTC

I teach math. I'm used to let the multilingual pupils to count in their home language. I found that the schoolmates get very interested and their try to learn the new words using them also in diverse situations

Selvaggia

2018-10-24 08:03:46 UTC

Plurilingualism is a reality in most classes; it could be developed making educational-play activities and overcoming the several doubts many times exposed by parents, colleagues and the same students . However, it’s not possible to do it for all activities: writing activity, for example, is impracticable with the iconic code languages other than that latin.

Cinzia, Italy

2018-10-24 09:10:42 UTC

I think the best way to do activities in different languages is to sing songs from international pop stars, watch films in the original language, play games with simple words, browse newspapers and comment on the photos.

Candida Peters, India

2018-10-24 09:17:34 UTC

In a Plurilingual classroom we can make children sing songs of their home language and find similar idioms and proverbs that mean almost the same thing in each language.

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2018-10-24 10:31:21 UTC

We can make children sing songs of their home language and then find similar idioms and proverbs that mean almost the same thing in each language.

E

2018-10-24 14:30:17 UTC

I use songs that we could sing in many other languages.

Sonali , India

2018-10-24 15:30:41 UTC

We can make children sing song of there own language so that they could find relevance in that.

DHAIRYA BAJAJ , INDIA

2018-10-24 15:36:37 UTC

The idea of counting in different languages seems very interesting to me eg. while counting the strength of the class the teacher can use different languages.

MANSI UPPAL , INDIA

2018-10-24 16:09:52 UTC

we can choose a topic and pick up some words and ask students to translate them to different languages they knew

ANJALI KOHLI

2018-10-24 18:25:30 UTC

For me what i have felt interesting is to speak common words like thankyou, good morning, bye, etc. in different languages.

Iriny, Ukraine

iryna_danyliuk — 2018-10-24 19:49:58 UTC

We create small vocabularies of common words and phrases. Also we make small books with proverbs and sayings in different languages.

Marina Stanojlović Mirčić, Serbia

2018-10-24 20:02:41 UTC

I will let them use common expressions like how are you, thank you etc. I will try to find similarities to be able to remember easily.

CLIL classroom activities _ Aija, Latvia

2018-10-24 21:12:11 UTC

Nell provides lovely ideas. One more idea is that there could be a group work in the class and children could make posters containing either basic welcoming words in their language or some words on the topic at hand (e.g. if it's a biology lesson on vertebrates, then some basic words like bones, reptiles, birds, mammals in their home language)

Nicolina G.,Italy

2018-10-25 11:12:45 UTC

I completely agree with Cinzia from Italy that the best way to do activities that embed linguistic diversity is to sing songs from international pop stars or watching films in the original language. One of my best experiences was last year when with my colleagues decided to celebrate every culture present in our school during the European Day of Languages. Students performed poems and prayers and sang some typical popular songs of their own culture. Moreover they realized some typical recipes for that event, helped by their parents ,too. This experience was really inspiring for everybody!

Doina

doinacta — 2018-10-25 18:53:19 UTC

i did use an activity in which the children had to present their traditions in the family and make a poster to present them along with few words of their native language.

Oana

2018-10-25 20:41:31 UTC

I'm thinking about some projects based on local cuisine. We should have different names and customs. This way students may klearn new words and cultural diversity.

Marianthi Arvanitidou -Greece

1canislupus22 — 2018-10-26 14:12:41 UTC

express through fairy tales and local stories

Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2018-10-26 14:17:34 UTC

Each one with its individuality, but being part of the whole, which is the group where everyone learns in an egalitarian way, the language brings them together, even if their reality is different, in the classroom they are all interacting.

Caterina, ITALY

caterina_vitali75 — 2018-10-26 20:59:44 UTC

We're organizing a class library, where it's possible find books in different languages.
From 22 to 27 October in Italy is the week of Libriamoci, on 25th at school foreign parents read in own language fairy and story to pupils, it was a fantastic experience for all

Dina, Verona, Ital

2018-10-28 13:58:39 UTC

After listening to this video of Nell, I immediately thought that the technique of the keywords could be a useful tool for my work. And so I started looking for some keywords for math lessons (add, subtract, children, remain, etc). Keywords, therefore, come to have two significant characteristics: they are related to the daily life of children and are expressed in different languages. So I asked the children to bring me some words that I asked in their native languages. The children, at first rather disconcerted, began to ask in the family. At the beginning few children brought me the word in their language, it took a long time for them to trust me and almost everyone had the words in their language. The fear of being laughed at by the comrades seemed important. Then, instead, they experienced this idea as positive and now they want to bring me a lot of words. We have also included the words in the various Italian regional dialects. We hope it will be a good job!

create web diaries that students could read and comment

2018-10-29 13:53:07 UTC

Lucia, Italy

2018-10-29 15:25:11 UTC

The best way to create a plurilingual class is to use some keywords, during your lesson, in more laguages. It depends also on the subject..if it is possibile even watching short documentary in different laguages.

D

2018-10-29 16:01:10 UTC

Debora. Italy

2018-10-29 16:01:38 UTC

I believe that an effective strategy to create a fertile learning environment is to use simple narrative texts in different languages, so that pupils can compare themselves.

Angela Dimitriu

grupa_meteo2017 — 2018-10-29 18:55:39 UTC

Using technology and online app. For instance, my students practice English through presentations. First they record their voice and then kizoa.com photoslideshows.

Tamar, Georgia

2018-10-30 13:15:31 UTC

I organize cultural one day event before starting lessons. I use singing a song in their own languages. Also I have an activity: let's promote home countries and find some mutual things between two countries and pupils can do posters together

Monolingual class

2018-10-30 14:27:09 UTC

I would try with simple english texts about historical argoments

Jolana

2018-10-30 14:57:31 UTC

I believe in CLIL methods. There might be short activities in other language within a language class or other subject class. Pupils can compare similarities of the languages and thus understand them better.

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bnicoleta2003 — 2018-10-30 19:05:22 UTC

Nicoleta

bnicoleta2003 — 2018-10-30 19:05:23 UTC

we can use short video in other language but with subtitrate in our language

marina_antolkovic — 2018-10-30 20:31:48 UTC

I don't have experiences with any of the examples that Nell shared, but I really liked them. They are inovative and different.

Marina A., Croatia

marina_antolkovic — 2018-10-30 20:31:56 UTC

I don't have experience with any of the examples that Nell shared, but I really liked them. They are inovative and different. I especially liked her observation that the children become aware when they should use their mother tongue during class. This just goes to show how language comes naturally, and it all comes together to fullfill the primary role of language, which is communication.

unfortunately not

2018-11-12 22:26:03 UTC

Salih Türkiye

Azra S

2018-11-13 14:17:49 UTC

I didn't have Nell's experience but I like her ideas. Maybe in the future I can use some ideas.

Donatella Passiatore, ItalyI teach Design and History of Art in a Scientific High School. On the basis of the design relating to the History of Art, I would propose to create a video in English on the life of an artist chosen unanimously by the class, involving all the students of the class in historical-geographical research, making live a work chosen by the students considered most significant. Always in collaboration with the English or Spanish language teacher and the history teacher.

2018-11-14 14:20:22 UTC

Gülay, Turkey

PUFUM — 2018-11-27 17:15:16 UTC

Unfortunately not

Adela Gabriela Muresan

muresan_gabriela_adela — 2018-12-05 18:18:16 UTC

I like her ideas. Maybe in the future I can use some ideas.

Nurten

mertberil55 — 2018-12-26 20:09:18 UTC

2019-04-12 22:40:47 UTC

Suzzane, Jordan
I liked the ideas & I am planning to apply them in my classes.

Kristina, Croatia

jakic_kristina — 2019-06-04 19:39:16 UTC

I don`t have experiences but I like ideas.

Luisa

2019-09-19 07:53:05 UTC

I created a game with multilingual words. It consists in several cards where there are written different and multilingaul words. Boys have to match mather tongue language with Italian and English language. It wins who matches more correct words in a little time. I can observe during this game that students work together and are satisfied about their outcomes.

2022-09-07 14:06:10 UTC

Reina

My favourite activity is running. I like it because I will be come strong. If I can run faster than other people, I will win the match. And also, I can practice with my friends.