The importance of being language-aware by EUN Partnership aisbl

HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY

mavimavi2316 — 2018-09-24 12:13:55 UTC

I am a teacher in a country where immigrants live intensively. I have a lot of information about this. I think I need more information about this. I find this course very important.

Filomena Montella, Italy

2018-09-24 12:24:28 UTC

I am a teacher of Italian language and literature and history in secondary school. I strongly believe in the value of language as an important element of communication, that is, "putting in common" a message and having the right feedback

Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta

2018-09-24 12:34:11 UTC

I am a primary teacher in the tiny island of Gozo. Our mother tongue is Maltese and our second language is English. We start teaching both languages to our students from a very young age. Maltese, our mother language is part of our identity and culture, however English helps us communicate with the rest of the world.

Daniela Roversi

2018-09-24 12:42:58 UTC

I teach German in an Italian Secondary school. I think, it's very useful, that the teacher remembers, how he/she learnt a foreign language, when he/she was at school.

I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural.

2018-09-24 12:53:22 UTC

That is why I think it is important to get to your pupils/students and make them aware of the importance of communicate through language, any language.

2018-09-24 13:01:33 UTC

I am a teacher in secondary school to students with special needs and I think it’s very important and useful to explore the communicative resources in the classroo

Martina Tettamanzi, Italy

2018-09-24 13:14:34 UTC

I am a teacher in an Italian Secondary School. I'm willing to improve my knowledge about communication and language awaress in order to help foreing students to learn a new language.

Daniela Galea, Malta

daniela_galea10 — 2018-09-24 13:16:13 UTC

I am a primary teacher at Marsascala Primary School in Malta. My school is one of the most multicultural schools on our island that's why I think it is very important to make students aware of the importance of communicating through language.

Rita Xuereb, Malta

2018-09-24 13:21:46 UTC

I am a Kindergarten Educator in a Maltese Public School, and our school population consists mainly of immigrants from all over the world. It's very difficult to communicate in Maltese

so we use English as our common language.

It’s also very interesting to observe how these 3-5 year olds communicate with each other in spite of their multicultural and language diversity.

I would like to learn how to take advantage of this reality for the benefit of the children.

RITA LUISO -ITALY

2018-09-24 13:27:02 UTC

I am a teacher in a technical school where there are a lot of immigrant and I try to make them aware of the importance of knowledge of a language to communicate to the other. In my classroom there different students with special needs and I'd like to improve my knowledge to help these students

Claudia Mazzone -Italy

2018-09-24 13:30:15 UTC

I'm a teacher in a secondary school in Naples. I work with guys who have particular needs. In the class where I teach there are students who come from different parts of the world. I'd like to improve my linguistic skills, because I think that the language awareness is a fundamental way to communicate with foreigners students, to check out their abilities and difficulties, in the way to make them feel part of the class, with benefits for their schoolmates and teachers.

I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using CLIL activities, because students can become aware of the importance of speaking different languages.

2018-09-24 13:33:19 UTC

Alex_PT

alexandraduarte — 2018-09-24 13:46:48 UTC

I am an EFL teacher in Portugal in a rural area, and even though we haven’t had many immigrants, the truth is that in the last – let’s say – two years, we’ve welcomed some eastern Europeans, but basically, Brazilians. These students are all having extra classes in Portuguese in order to be able to comply and in what concerns my subject English as a Foreign Language, they are also problematic. I believe I am a language-aware teacher, conscious that my sts’ proficiency varies according to the context and subject – in Portuguese or English! Nevertheless, I have no doubts that if I was native-born or had more opportunities for local professional development, I would certainly acquire not only a more accurate language sensitivity but also have a better, improved perception of sociocultural aspects.

Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy

2018-09-24 13:47:29 UTC

I'm a teacher in an Italian Primary School.
In my school there are children who came from different parts of world, especially from China. There are also many pupils whit special needs. In my opinion, the language awareness is very important to help these students in their difficulties. I'ld like to improuve my knowledge for my job and for the benefit of children.

Mariateresa De Mattia

2018-09-24 13:53:04 UTC

I'm a teacher in an Italian school at Foggia.In my classroom i work with pupils who have special needs and so I think that language awareness is very important to comunicate and help them in their difficulties

Federica (Italy)

2018-09-24 13:55:35 UTC

I feel like a language-curious teacher rather than being aware of language diversity in my classroom. I still need to readapt my teaching to capture more effectively those who are bilingual and also to make Italian mother tongue students aware of their peers' difficulties

Rosy (Italy)

2018-09-24 14:03:37 UTC

I am a teacher in a secondary school in Catania. I work with guys who have special needs and in my classroom there are only two foreign students. I Think that language awareness is important for every teacher and usefull to help pupils whose first language is different from the school's one. It is important not only to teach a foreign language but also to make pupils aware of the cultures of other school mates. School is not only a place where everyone acquires knowledge, but also a place where one learns to live together and builds common values . So that, everyone can find our place in classroom.

Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy)

2018-09-24 14:06:20 UTC

I teach English in a primary school with a small number of pupils from foreign countries. I believe it is fundamental to implement linguistic awareness for the purposes of integration and inclusion, important educational values to be transmitted.

Roberta Di Pietro, Italy

2018-09-24 14:09:04 UTC

I teach in the primary school and to some extent, I think to be a language aware teacher. Luckily, I studied languages and I've been abroad learning in other languages. This influence my way of approachingbilingual students. However I know I can still improve and I hope this course will give me further information and help me finding more effective strategies to teach to my students and help them improve their learning methods and their language awareness, those who are bilingual and those who aren't, to help them become better citizens.

Alessandra Amideo,

2018-09-24 14:11:13 UTC

ITALY

  I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian language and literature. Yes, I feel like a teacher who is attentive to the language. I think it is important to be a teacher who knows the language because it gives you the awareness of mastering it and consequently transmitting it to the students. .

Odarka Kukite, Latvia

2018-09-24 14:11:58 UTC

i teach English and French in a secondary professional school and i need this course in order to help my foreign students to improve their language awareness.

2018-09-24 14:12:08 UTC

Varvara Gashenko, Latvia

2018-09-24 14:17:11 UTC

i teach English and German in a secondary professional school and i need this course because i would like to use different CLIL activities at my lessons in order to make them more interested in English

I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves.

2018-09-24 14:19:02 UTC

Tiziana Varone, Ita

2018-09-24 14:22:41 UTC

I'm a ¨language-aware¨ teacher: I believe in the benefits coming from learning a second tongue, first of all the freedom to travel and work all over the world; I also think that living language diversity in classroom is an added value of the school experience, because it compells students and teachers to really do the effort to communicate in the language of the other and to daily practice a foreign language

2018-09-24 14:27:55 UTC

I am a teacher in primary school. I am teaching language subject in the classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it.

Stanley,Nigeria

2018-09-24 14:32:08 UTC

Being aware of the diversity of languages learners helps a teacher to recognize the differences in behavior and attitude of learners and how to pattern his teaching.

Lucia, Ita

2018-09-24 14:40:01 UTC

I teach Maths and Physics in a secondary school. I believe it is fundamental for students whose first language is different from the language of schooling because they will be supported by subject teachers who have a much better understanding of the role that language plays in knowledge building.

Lia, Italy

2018-09-24 14:41:07 UTC

I teach English in a secondary school. I do have students with a very low background, who barely speak Italian, besides foreign students and last but not least students with special needs. Having said that, I need to be a language aware teacher and constanty switching from one code to another in order to involve all my students.

Carla Machado, Portugal

2018-09-24 14:43:43 UTC

I teach English in a secondary school. And yes! I feel like a language-aware teacher. I have several students from other countries and sometimes I think the American melting pot has become a global one. So, I am truly prepared to welcome my students with different Hellos :) and I know they love it. They feel home!

inci Süzer, Turkey

2018-09-24 15:01:58 UTC

whenever my students ask "why do we learn English, does English kids learn Turkish aswell?" it makes me think learning a second language mustn't be an obligation. I have to sth to make it more charming , I need to show them that a new language is a door of a new world, new people , new cultures.

inci

2018-09-24 15:02:00 UTC

Pizzi Mariagle

2018-09-24 15:13:05 UTC

Italy
I'm a French teacher in a secondary school and as we a have students with special needs or ADHD students I find very difficult planning lessons for a so wide diversity of students. But languages are too much important in these 10 last years and it's important to find to involve everybody.

Anna Rita

2018-09-24 15:13:22 UTC

I teach English in a secondary school, I find it difficult teaching English as a second Language and even giving my lessons in English because we have so different kids with special needs. Sometimes I see my best student feeling bored and I would like to give them more in order to increase their Language awareness.

Lia MOlini from ITaly

2018-09-24 15:16:47 UTC

Patrícia, Porto, Portugal

2018-09-24 15:17:09 UTC

I teach Portuguese and English and I work with young learners and teenagers too. I try to be very active with my students when it comes to language awareness... When we are working together we know that language is culture, language is identity, communication... And I try to share my passion with them, so they too will want to learn different languages, travel, meet new people...

Lia from Italy

2018-09-24 15:18:44 UTC

I am an English teacher at Primary School. I am aware of language development. I think that working in very multicultural contexts helped me a lot.

Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them.

2018-09-24 15:24:55 UTC

Carolina From Italy

2018-09-24 15:26:32 UTC

I'm a teacher ,I teach English in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language

2018-09-24 15:28:48 UTC

he classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria

MariaM - Gaeta, Italy

2018-09-24 15:28:57 UTC

I’m a primary school teacher and I do believe that language is a vehicle for learning. This year I'm teaching English in a fifth class and I will experience some CLIL activities, so that my pupils can understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning.

Martina

2018-09-24 15:29:14 UTC

Martina from Italy

2018-09-24 15:29:18 UTC

Different languages, different cultures, different people! Our job is amazing. We have the possibility to spread the knowledge and the love for the human being.

Stefania

2018-09-24 15:29:50 UTC

I'm a teacher in a primary school. I believe that it is our responsability to make the second language learning more enjoyable, trying to eliminate the difficulties and understand what we can do to support students.

I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures

2018-09-24 15:30:29 UTC

2018-09-24 15:31:04 UTC

I teach English in a Primary School and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides,language diversity allows facing with people of different countries and cultures, so that our pupils can estend their knowledge.

I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help

2018-09-24 15:31:57 UTC

FedeTagliafichi — 2018-09-24 15:36:16 UTC

I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience.
Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience.
The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being.

Federica Tagliafichi

FedeTagliafichi — 2018-09-24 15:36:20 UTC

I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience.
Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience.
The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being.

Gina , Italy

2018-09-24 15:39:33 UTC

I'm a teacher in secondary high school and unfortunately many of my students have problems with their mother tongue language and therefore English is difficult to face in the classroom. So LA is mandatory to learn news ways to get them motivated.

Roberta from Italy

2018-09-24 15:43:50 UTC

I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students, and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy studying a new langua

R

2018-09-24 15:43:55 UTC

I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn.

2018-09-24 15:45:22 UTC

Alina, Romania

Julia, Poland

2018-09-24 15:50:14 UTC

I am a trainer for teachers working with children with immigration experience (usually from Ukraine). Our systhem of education is just on the beginning with that subject. I think that it is very important to use experience from other countries, with longer history of multilingual schools.

Rosamaria Teodorani

rossyteo — 2018-09-24 15:52:10 UTC

I'm a primary school teacher in Rome.
I believe in the importance of Learning languages as a language is the key to get in a culture, explore it, experience diversity and open your mind. To learn languages it makes you undertand that all cultures have devoloped similar logical structures to communicate, that there are lots of similarities. It is a an exciting experience.

Gabriella,Italy

2018-09-24 15:56:45 UTC

I teach maths and science in a junior high school in Naples. In my opinion the students that use CLIL activities will have more opportunities in the future for their jobs, but olso for their life because they will become really European Citizen

Maren, Germany

2018-09-24 16:03:48 UTC

I am a soon to be teacher in high school. Many Students are facing difficulties in their first language and hence in learning new languages. Being language aware of ALL languages surrounding children is super important in order to provide every student with the help that is necessary to succeed in language acquisition.

eths2 — 2018-09-24 16:06:44 UTC

experience from other countries, with longer history of multilingual schools. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. Alina, Romania Roberta from Italy Roberta from Italy I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students, and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy studying a new langua R R Gina , Italy Gina , Italy I'm a teacher in secondary high school and unfortunately many of my students have problems with their mother tongue language and therefore English is difficult to face in the classroom. So LA is mandatory to learn news ways to get them motivated. I w I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. Federica Tagliafichi Federica Tagliafichi I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I teach English in a I teach English in a Primary School and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides,language diversity allows facing with people of different countries and cultures, so that our pupils can estend their knowledge. Stefania Stefania I'm a teacher in a primary school. I believe that it is our responsability to make the second language learning more enjoyable, trying to eliminate the difficulties and understand what we can do to support students. I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures Martina Martina Martina from Italy Martina from Italy Different languages, different cultures, different people! Our job is amazing. We have the possibility to spread the knowledge and the love for the human being. MariaM - Gaeta, Italy MariaM - Gaeta, Italy I’m a primary school teacher and I do believe that language is a vehicle for learning. This year I'm teaching English in a fifth class and I will experience some CLIL activities, so that my pupils can understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. he classroom. I want my s he classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Carolina From Italy Carolina From Italy I'm a teacher ,I teach English in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Lia from Italy Lia from Italy I am an English teacher at Primary School. I am aware of language development. I think that working in very multicultural contexts helped me a lot. Patrícia, Porto, Portugal Patrícia, Porto, Portugal I teach Portuguese and English and I work with young learners and teenagers too. I try to be very active with my students when it comes to language awareness... When we are working together we know that language is culture, language is identity, communication... And I try to share my passion with them, so they too will want to learn different languages, travel, meet new people... Lia MOlini from ITaly Lia MOlini from ITaly Pizzi Mariagle Pizzi Mariagle Italy I'm a French teacher in a secondary school and as we a have students with special needs or ADHD students I find very difficult planning lessons for a so wide diversity of students. But languages are too much important in these 10 last years and it's important to find to involve everybody. inci Süzer, Turkey inci Süzer, Turkey whenever my students ask "why do we learn English, does English kids learn Turkish aswell?" it makes me think learning a second language mustn't be an obligation. I have to sth to make it more charming , I need to show them that a new language is a door of a new world, new people , new cultures. inci inci Anna Rita Anna Rita I teach English in a secondary school, I find it difficult teaching English as a second Language and even giving my lessons in English because we have so different kids with special needs. Sometimes I see my best student feeling bored and I would like to give them more in order to increase their Language awareness. Carla Machado, Portugal Carla Machado, Portugal I teach English in a secondary school. And yes! I feel like a language-aware teacher. I have several students from other countries and sometimes I think the American melting pot has become a global one. So, I am truly prepared to welcome my students with different Hellos :) and I know they love it. They feel home! Lia, Italy Lia, Italy I teach English in a secondary school. I do have students with a very low background, who barely speak Italian, besides foreign students and last but not least students with special needs. Having said that, I need to be a language aware teacher and constanty switching from one code to another in order to involve all my students. Lucia, Ita Lucia, Ita I teach Maths and Physics in a secondary school. I believe it is fundamental for students whose first language is different from the language of schooling because they will be supported by subject teachers who have a much better understanding of the role that language plays in knowledge building. I am a teacher in pr I am a teacher in primary school. I am teaching language subject in the classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Being aware of the diversity of languages learners helps a teacher to recognize the differences in behavior and attitude of learners and how to pattern his teaching. Tiziana Varone, Ita Tiziana Varone, Ita I'm a ¨language-aware¨ teacher: I believe in the benefits coming from learning a second tongue, first of all the freedom to travel and work all over the world; I also think that living language diversity in classroom is an added value of the school experience, because it compells students and teachers to really do the effort to communicate in the language of the other and to daily practice a foreign language I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. Varvara Gashenko, Latvia Varvara Gashenko, Latvia i teach English and German in a secondary professional school and i need this course because i would like to use different CLIL activities at my lessons in order to make them more interested in English I I Odarka Kukite, Latvia Odarka Kukite, Latvia i teach English and French in a secondary professional school and i need this course in order to help my foreign students to improve their language awareness. Alessandra Amideo, Alessandra Amideo, ITALY I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian language and literature. Yes, I feel like a teacher who is attentive to the language. I think it is important to be a teacher who knows the language because it gives you the awareness of mastering it and consequently transmitting it to the students. . Roberta Di Pietro, Italy Roberta Di Pietro, Italy I teach in the primary school and to some extent, I think to be a language aware teacher. Luckily, I studied languages and I've been abroad learning in other languages. This influence my way of approachingbilingual students. However I know I can still improve and I hope this course will give me further information and help me finding more effective strategies to teach to my students and help them improve their learning methods and their language awareness, those who are bilingual and those who aren't, to help them become better citizens. Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) I teach English in a primary school with a small number of pupils from foreign countries. I believe it is fundamental to implement linguistic awareness for the purposes of integration and inclusion, important educational values to be transmitted. Rosy (Italy) Rosy (Italy) I am a teacher in a secondary school in Catania. I work with guys who have special needs and in my classroom there are only two foreign students. I Think that language awareness is important for every teacher and usefull to help pupils whose first language is different from the school's one. It is important not only to teach a foreign language but also to make pupils aware of the cultures of other school mates. School is not only a place where everyone acquires knowledge, but also a place where one learns to live together and builds common values . So that, everyone can find our place in classroom. Federica (Italy) Federica (Italy) I feel like a language-curious teacher rather than being aware of language diversity in my classroom. I still need to readapt my teaching to capture more effectively those who are bilingual and also to make Italian mother tongue students aware of their peers' difficulties Mariateresa De Mattia Mariateresa De Mattia I'm a teacher in an Italian school at Foggia.In my classroom i work with pupils who have special needs and so I think that language awareness is very important to comunicate and help them in their difficulties Alex_PT Alex_PT I am an EFL teacher in Portugal in a rural area, and even though we haven’t had many immigrants, the truth is that in the last – let’s say – two years, we’ve welcome some eastern Europeans, but basically, Brazilians. These students are all having extra classes in Portuguese in order to be able to comply and in what concerns my subject English as a Foreign Language, they are also problematic. I believe I am a language-aware teacher, conscious that my sts’ proficiency varies according to the context and subject – in Portuguese or English! Nevertheless, I have no doubts that if I was native-born or had more opportunities for local professional development, I would certainly acquire not only a more accurate language sensitivity but also have a better, improved perception of sociocultural aspects. Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy I'm a teacher in an Italian Primary School. In my school there are children who came from different parts of world, especially from China. There are also many pupils whit special needs. In my opinion, the language awareness is very important to help these students in their difficulties. I'ld like to improuve my knowledge for my job and for the benefit of children. Claudia Mazzone -Italy Claudia Mazzone -Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school in Naples. I work with guys who have particular needs. In the class where I teach there are students who come from different parts of the world. I'd like to improve my linguistic skills, because I think that the language awareness is a fundamental way to communicate with foreigners students, to check out their abilities and difficulties, in the way to make them feel part of the class, with benefits for their schoolmates and teachers. Rita Xuereb, Malta Rita Xuereb, Malta I am a Kindergarten Educator in a Maltese Public School, and our school population consists mainly of immigrants from all over the world. It's very difficult to communicate in Maltese so we use English as our common language. It’s also very interesting to observe how these 3-5 year olds communicate with each other in spite of their multicultural and language diversity. I would like to learn how to take advantage of this reality for the benefit of the children. RITA LUISO -ITALY RITA LUISO -ITALY I am a teacher in a technical school where there are a lot of immigrant and I try to make them aware of the importance of knowledge of a language to communicate to the other. In my classroom there different students with special needs and I'd like to improve my knowledge to help these students Daniela Galea, Malta Daniela Galea, Malta I am a primary teacher at Marsascala Primary School in Malta. My school is one of the most multicultural schools on our island that's why I think it is very important to make students aware of the importance of communicating through language. Martina Tettamanzi, Italy Martina Tettamanzi, Italy I am a teacher in an Italian Secondary School. I'm willing to improve my knowledge about communication and language awaress in order to help foreing students to learn a new language. I am a teacher in se I am a teacher in secondary school to students with special needs and I think it’s very important and useful to explore the communicative resources in the classroo I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. That is why I think it is important to get to your pupils/students and make them aware of the importance of communicate through language, any language. Daniela Roversi Daniela Roversi I teach German in an Italian Secondary school. I think, it's very useful, that the teacher remembers, how he/she learnt a foreign language, when he/she was at school. Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta I am a primary teacher in the tiny island of Gozo. Our mother tongue is Maltese and our second language is English. We start teaching both languages to our students from a very young age. Maltese, our mother language is part of our identity and culture, however English helps us communicate with the rest of the world. Filomena Montella, Italy Filomena Montella, Italy I am a teacher of Italian language and literature and history in secondary school. I strongly believe in the value of language as an important element of communication, that is, "putting in common" a message and having the right feedback HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY I am a teacher in a country where immigrants live intensively. I have a lot of information about this. I think I need more information about this. I find this course very important.

I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Learning another language improves the critical thinking, encourage cultural appreciation and interpersonal connection, as well as the possibility to advance research. Language diversity helps not only to develop interpersonal and intercultural abilities , but also helps people to be

2018-09-24 16:07:41 UTC

İMRAN ARSLAN TÜRKİYE. İlkokulda çalışıyorum. Ülkemizde etnik kökeni farklı bir çok insan yaşamakta, farklı diller ve kültürler bizleri ayrıştırmıyor. Bütünleştiriyor. Farklı dillerde müzikler, sanatsal etkinlikler kültürümüzü zenginleştiriyor. Bir lisan bir insan iki lisan iki insan. Ben de kendi dilimde düşüncelerimi sizinle paylaştım.

zeynepsina — 2018-09-24 16:10:13 UTC

Veronica, teacher -to

2018-09-24 16:10:43 UTC

I’m still not a teacher, but I’m studying to become a teacher in primary school. I think that is very important nowadays to be a language-aware teacher because of our world is every time more international and every school becomes a mix of cultures of all over the world. Furthermore, languages are every day more important for the professional and private life of everyone. Like a teacher, I think it could be great to let the children discover things about languages in the world, and let the children that know more than one language express themselves about their mother tongue. This will also permit us, like teaches, to understand more them like person, to understand the way they think, to help them doing connections to learning the language of the city where they live now, and to introduce them and the other children to an open-mind thinking.

Caterina from Italy

caterina_vitali75 — 2018-09-24 16:11:07 UTC

I'm a teacher in a primary school, in my class there're pupils from Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Poland, and also one pupil with an Italian father an a Brazilian mother. I hope to improve my language aware during this course, to dive in the languages' ocean and discover the common underlying proficiency.

Elín Iceland

eths2 — 2018-09-24 16:11:31 UTC

I am taking my first steps in teaching foreign kids Icelandic. I like to know what to do for each ages. When start grammar and witch way.

Eda Harp Zübari,Turkey

2018-09-24 16:11:39 UTC

I am an English Language Teacher.I work in the southeastern of Turkey.The city has a lot of refugees from Syria.That is why,some of my students are Syrians.Some of them knows Turkish and English but most of them dont know either.We have difficulty in communication.The course may help me how to deal with this situation.Besides,most of my students dont believe in the beneficiency in learning a foreign language.I tell them about why we learn another language but some of them still insist on not to learn.They dont have an opportunity to communicate in English.Anyway,I hope this course will be useful both for me and my students.Thanks.

Lucy (Italy

2018-09-24 16:12:53 UTC

I'm a geografy teacher in a secondary school

Roberta (Italy)

2018-09-24 16:13:48 UTC

I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy learning a new language

Ipermahia Christodoulou , Greece

2018-09-24 16:15:15 UTC

I'm a primary school English Language teacher. In my opinion is that we should care of the L1 the language that a child speaks and hears as mother tongue and mainly the L2 the language that a child with a different mother tongue is taught at school.L3 the foreign language which is compulsory to learn and at least the second foreign language which the child can choose to learn.When the child learns good the L2, there will not any problems to learn whatever language he/she prefers to.

think is important teaching C.l.i.l.

2018-09-24 16:15:33 UTC

M. Rosa
Italy

2018-09-24 16:17:53 UTC

I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using CLIL activities, because students can become aware of the importance of speaking different languages. I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using CLIL activities, because students can become aware of the importance of speaking different languages. İMRAN ARSLAN TÜRKİYE. İlkokulda çalışıyorum. Ülkemizde etnik kökeni farklı bir çok insan yaşamakta, farklı diller ve kültürler bizleri ayrıştırmıyor. Bütünleştiriyor. Farklı dillerde müzikler, sanatsal etkinlikler kültürümüzü zenginleştiriyor. Bir lisan bir insan iki lisan iki insan. Ben de kendi dilimde düşüncelerimi sizinle paylaştım. İMRAN ARSLAN TÜRKİYE. İlkokulda çalışıyorum. Ülkemizde etnik kökeni farklı bir çok insan yaşamakta, farklı diller ve kültürler bizleri ayrıştırmıyor. Bütünleştiriyor. Farklı dillerde müzikler, sanatsal etkinlikler kültürümüzü zenginleştiriyor. Bir lisan bir insan iki lisan iki insan. Ben de kendi dilimde düşüncelerimi sizinle paylaştım. Lucy (Italy Lucy (Italy I'm a geografy teacher in a secondary school think is important teaching C.l.i.l. think is important teaching C.l.i.l. Ipermahia Christodoulou , Greece Ipermahia Christodoulou , Greece I'm a primary school English Language teacher. In my opinion is that we should care of the L1 the language that a child speaks and hears as mother tongue, the L Roberta (Italy) Roberta (Italy) I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy learning a new language Eda Harp Zübari,Turkey Eda Harp Zübari,Turkey I am an English Language Teacher.I work in the southeastern of Turkey.The city has a lot of refugees from Syria.That is why,some of my students are Syrians.Some of them knows Turkish and English but most of them dont know either.We have difficulty in communication.The course may help me how to deal with this situation.Besides,almost all of my students doesnt Elín Iceland Elín Iceland I am taking my first steps in teaching foreign kids Icelandic. I like to know what to do for each ages. When start grammar and witch way. Caterina from Italy Caterina from Italy I'm a teacher in a primary school, in my class there're pupils from Marocco, Pakistan, Romania, Poland, and also one pupil with an Italian father an a Brazilian mother. I hope to improve my language aware during this course, to dive in the languages' ocean and discover the common underlying proficiency. Veronica, teacher -to Veronica, teacher -to I’m still not a teacher, but I’m studying to become a teacher in primary school. I think that is very important nowadays to be a language-aware teacher because of our world is every time more international and every school becomes a mix of cultures of all over the world. Furthermore, languages are every day more important for the professional and private life of everyone. Like a teacher, I think it could be great to let the children discover things about languages in the world, and let the children that know more than one language express themselves about their mother tongue. This will also permit us, like teaches, to understand more them like person, to understand the way they think, to help them doing connections to learning the language of the city where they live now, and to introduce them and the other children to an open-mind thinking. I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Learning another language improves the critical thinking, encourage cultural appreciation and increase I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Learning another language improves the critical thinking, encourage cultural appreciation and increase experience from other cou experience from other countries, with longer history of multilingual schools. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. Alina, Romania Roberta from Italy Roberta from Italy I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students, and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy studying a new langua R R Gina , Italy Gina , Italy I'm a teacher in secondary high school and unfortunately many of my students have problems with their mother tongue language and therefore English is difficult to face in the classroom. So LA is mandatory to learn news ways to get them motivated. I w I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. Federica Tagliafichi Federica Tagliafichi I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I teach English in a I teach English in a Primary School and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides,language diversity allows facing with people of different countries and cultures, so that our pupils can estend their knowledge. Stefania Stefania I'm a teacher in a primary school. I believe that it is our responsability to make the second language learning more enjoyable, trying to eliminate the difficulties and understand what we can do to support students. I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures Martina Martina Martina from Italy Martina from Italy Different languages, different cultures, different people! Our job is amazing. We have the possibility to spread the knowledge and the love for the human being. MariaM - Gaeta, Italy MariaM - Gaeta, Italy I’m a primary school teacher and I do believe that language is a vehicle for learning. This year I'm teaching English in a fifth class and I will experience some CLIL activities, so that my pupils can understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. he classroom. I want my s he classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Carolina From Italy Carolina From Italy I'm a teacher ,I teach English in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Lia from Italy Lia from Italy I am an English teacher at Primary School. I am aware of language development. I think that working in very multicultural contexts helped me a lot. Patrícia, Porto, Portugal Patrícia, Porto, Portugal I teach Portuguese and English and I work with young learners and teenagers too. I try to be very active with my students when it comes to language awareness... When we are working together we know that language is culture, language is identity, communication... And I try to share my passion with them, so they too will want to learn different languages, travel, meet new people... Lia MOlini from ITaly Lia MOlini from ITaly Pizzi Mariagle Pizzi Mariagle Italy I'm a French teacher in a secondary school and as we a have students with special needs or ADHD students I find very difficult planning lessons for a so wide diversity of students. But languages are too much important in these 10 last years and it's important to find to involve everybody. inci Süzer, Turkey inci Süzer, Turkey whenever my students ask "why do we learn English, does English kids learn Turkish aswell?" it makes me think learning a second language mustn't be an obligation. I have to sth to make it more charming , I need to show them that a new language is a door of a new world, new people , new cultures. inci inci Anna Rita Anna Rita I teach English in a secondary school, I find it difficult teaching English as a second Language and even giving my lessons in English because we have so different kids with special needs. Sometimes I see my best student feeling bored and I would like to give them more in order to increase their Language awareness. Carla Machado, Portugal Carla Machado, Portugal I teach English in a secondary school. And yes! I feel like a language-aware teacher. I have several students from other countries and sometimes I think the American melting pot has become a global one. So, I am truly prepared to welcome my students with different Hellos :) and I know they love it. They feel home! Lia, Italy Lia, Italy I teach English in a secondary school. I do have students with a very low background, who barely speak Italian, besides foreign students and last but not least students with special needs. Having said that, I need to be a language aware teacher and constanty switching from one code to another in order to involve all my students. Lucia, Ita Lucia, Ita I teach Maths and Physics in a secondary school. I believe it is fundamental for students whose first language is different from the language of schooling because they will be supported by subject teachers who have a much better understanding of the role that language plays in knowledge building. I am a teacher in pr I am a teacher in primary school. I am teaching language subject in the classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Being aware of the diversity of languages learners helps a teacher to recognize the differences in behavior and attitude of learners and how to pattern his teaching. Tiziana Varone, Ita Tiziana Varone, Ita I'm a ¨language-aware¨ teacher: I believe in the benefits coming from learning a second tongue, first of all the freedom to travel and work all over the world; I also think that living language diversity in classroom is an added value of the school experience, because it compells students and teachers to really do the effort to communicate in the language of the other and to daily practice a foreign language I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. Varvara Gashenko, Latvia Varvara Gashenko, Latvia i teach English and German in a secondary professional school and i need this course because i would like to use different CLIL activities at my lessons in order to make them more interested in English I I Odarka Kukite, Latvia Odarka Kukite, Latvia i teach English and French in a secondary professional school and i need this course in order to help my foreign students to improve their language awareness. Alessandra Amideo, Alessandra Amideo, ITALY I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian language and literature. Yes, I feel like a teacher who is attentive to the language. I think it is important to be a teacher who knows the language because it gives you the awareness of mastering it and consequently transmitting it to the students. . Roberta Di Pietro, Italy Roberta Di Pietro, Italy I teach in the primary school and to some extent, I think to be a language aware teacher. Luckily, I studied languages and I've been abroad learning in other languages. This influence my way of approachingbilingual students. However I know I can still improve and I hope this course will give me further information and help me finding more effective strategies to teach to my students and help them improve their learning methods and their language awareness, those who are bilingual and those who aren't, to help them become better citizens. Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) I teach English in a primary school with a small number of pupils from foreign countries. I believe it is fundamental to implement linguistic awareness for the purposes of integration and inclusion, important educational values to be transmitted. Rosy (Italy) Rosy (Italy) I am a teacher in a secondary school in Catania. I work with guys who have special needs and in my classroom there are only two foreign students. I Think that language awareness is important for every teacher and usefull to help pupils whose first language is different from the school's one. It is important not only to teach a foreign language but also to make pupils aware of the cultures of other school mates. School is not only a place where everyone acquires knowledge, but also a place where one learns to live together and builds common values . So that, everyone can find our place in classroom. Federica (Italy) Federica (Italy) I feel like a language-curious teacher rather than being aware of language diversity in my classroom. I still need to readapt my teaching to capture more effectively those who are bilingual and also to make Italian mother tongue students aware of their peers' difficulties Mariateresa De Mattia Mariateresa De Mattia I'm a teacher in an Italian school at Foggia.In my classroom i work with pupils who have special needs and so I think that language awareness is very important to comunicate and help them in their difficulties Alex_PT Alex_PT I am an EFL teacher in Portugal in a rural area, and even though we haven’t had many immigrants, the truth is that in the last – let’s say – two years, we’ve welcome some eastern Europeans, but basically, Brazilians. These students are all having extra classes in Portuguese in order to be able to comply and in what concerns my subject English as a Foreign Language, they are also problematic. I believe I am a language-aware teacher, conscious that my sts’ proficiency varies according to the context and subject – in Portuguese or English! Nevertheless, I have no doubts that if I was native-born or had more opportunities for local professional development, I would certainly acquire not only a more accurate language sensitivity but also have a better, improved perception of sociocultural aspects. Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy I'm a teacher in an Italian Primary School. In my school there are children who came from different parts of world, especially from China. There are also many pupils whit special needs. In my opinion, the language awareness is very important to help these students in their difficulties. I'ld like to improuve my knowledge for my job and for the benefit of children. Claudia Mazzone -Italy Claudia Mazzone -Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school in Naples. I work with guys who have particular needs. In the class where I teach there are students who come from different parts of the world. I'd like to improve my linguistic skills, because I think that the language awareness is a fundamental way to communicate with foreigners students, to check out their abilities and difficulties, in the way to make them feel part of the class, with benefits for their schoolmates and teachers. Rita Xuereb, Malta Rita Xuereb, Malta I am a Kindergarten Educator in a Maltese Public School, and our school population consists mainly of immigrants from all over the world. It's very difficult to communicate in Maltese so we use English as our common language. It’s also very interesting to observe how these 3-5 year olds communicate with each other in spite of their multicultural and language diversity. I would like to learn how to take advantage of this reality for the benefit of the children. RITA LUISO -ITALY RITA LUISO -ITALY I am a teacher in a technical school where there are a lot of immigrant and I try to make them aware of the importance of knowledge of a language to communicate to the other. In my classroom there different students with special needs and I'd like to improve my knowledge to help these students Daniela Galea, Malta Daniela Galea, Malta I am a primary teacher at Marsascala Primary School in Malta. My school is one of the most multicultural schools on our island that's why I think it is very important to make students aware of the importance of communicating through language. Martina Tettamanzi, Italy Martina Tettamanzi, Italy I am a teacher in an Italian Secondary School. I'm willing to improve my knowledge about communication and language awaress in order to help foreing students to learn a new language. I am a teacher in se I am a teacher in secondary school to students with special needs and I think it’s very important and useful to explore the communicative resources in the classroo I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. That is why I think it is important to get to your pupils/students and make them aware of the importance of communicate through language, any language. Daniela Roversi Daniela Roversi I teach German in an Italian Secondary school. I think, it's very useful, that the teacher remembers, how he/she learnt a foreign language, when he/she was at school. Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta I am a primary teacher in the tiny island of Gozo. Our mother tongue is Maltese and our second language is English. We start teaching both languages to our students from a very young age. Maltese, our mother language is part of our identity and culture, however English helps us communicate with the rest of the world. Filomena Montella, Italy Filomena Montella, Italy I am a teacher of Italian language and literature and history in secondary school. I strongly believe in the value of language as an important element of communication, that is, "putting in common" a message and having the right feedback HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY I am a teacher in a country where immigrants live intensively. I have a lot of information about this. I think I need more information about this. I find this course very important. more_vert LORETTA LORETTA I AM A SCIENCE TEACHER IN A SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ITALY. I THINK THAT LANGUAGE CAN HELP ME TO COMMUNICATE WITH STUDENTS THAT DO NOT SPEAK THE MAIN LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION Maren, Germany Maren, Germany I am a soon to be teacher in high school. Many Students are facing difficulties in their first language and hence in learning new languages. Being language aware of ALL languages surrounding children is super important in order to provide every student with the help that is necessary to succeed in language acquisition. Gabriella,Italy Gabriella,Italy I teach maths and science in a junior high school in Naples. In my opinion the students that use CLIL activities will have more opportunities in the future for their jobs, but olso for their life because they will become really European Citizen Rosamaria Teodorani Rosamaria Teodorani I'm a primary school teacher in Rome. I believe in the importance of Learning languages as a language is the key to get in a culture, explore it, experience diversity and open your mind. To learn languages it makes you undertand that all cultures have devoloped similar logical structures to communicate, that there are lots of similarities. It is a an exciting experience. Julia, Poland Julia, Poland I am a trainer for teachers working with children with immigration experience (usually from Ukraine). Our systhem of education is just on the beginning with that subject. I think that it is very important to use experience from other countries, with longer history of multilingual schools. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. Alina, Romania Roberta from Italy Roberta from Italy I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students, and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy studying a new langua R R Gina , Italy Gina , Italy I'm a teacher in secondary high school and unfortunately many of my students have problems with their mother tongue language and therefore English is difficult to face in the classroom. So LA is mandatory to learn news ways to get them motivated. I w I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. Federica Tagliafichi Federica Tagliafichi I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I teach English in a I teach English in a Primary School and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides,language diversity allows facing with people of different countries and cultures, so that our pupils can estend their knowledge. Stefania Stefania I'm a teacher in a primary school. I believe that it is our responsability to make the second language learning more enjoyable, trying to eliminate the difficulties and understand what we can do to support students. I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures Martina Martina Martina from Italy Martina from Italy Different languages, different cultures, different people! Our job is amazing. We have the possibility to spread the knowledge and the love for the human being. MariaM - Gaeta, Italy MariaM - Gaeta, Italy I’m a primary school teacher and I do believe that language is a vehicle for learning. This year I'm teaching English in a fifth class and I will experience some CLIL activities, so that my pupils can understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. he classroom. I want my s he classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Carolina From Italy Carolina From Italy I'm a teacher ,I teach English in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Lia from Italy Lia from Italy I am an English teacher at Primary School. I am aware of language development. I think that working in very multicultural contexts helped me a lot. Patrícia, Porto, Portugal Patrícia, Porto, Portugal I teach Portuguese and English and I work with young learners and teenagers too. I try to be very active with my students when it comes to language awareness... When we are working together we know that language is culture, language is identity, communication... And I try to share my passion with them, so they too will want to learn different languages, travel, meet new people... Lia MOlini from ITaly Lia MOlini from ITaly Pizzi Mariagle Pizzi Mariagle Italy I'm a French teacher in a secondary school and as we a have students with special needs or ADHD students I find very difficult planning lessons for a so wide diversity of students. But languages are too much important in these 10 last years and it's important to find to involve everybody. inci Süzer, Turkey inci Süzer, Turkey whenever my students ask "why do we learn English, does English kids learn Turkish aswell?" it makes me think learning a second language mustn't be an obligation. I have to sth to make it more charming , I need to show them that a new language is a door of a new world, new people , new cultures. inci inci Anna Rita Anna Rita I teach English in a secondary school, I find it difficult teaching English as a second Language and even giving my lessons in English because we have so different kids with special needs. Sometimes I see my best student feeling bored and I would like to give them more in order to increase their Language awareness. Carla Machado, Portugal Carla Machado, Portugal I teach English in a secondary school. And yes! I feel like a language-aware teacher. I have several students from other countries and sometimes I think the American melting pot has become a global one. So, I am truly prepared to welcome my students with different Hellos :) and I know they love it. They feel home! Lia, Italy Lia, Italy I teach English in a secondary school. I do have students with a very low background, who barely speak Italian, besides foreign students and last but not least students with special needs. Having said that, I need to be a language aware teacher and constanty switching from one code to another in order to involve all my students. Lucia, Ita Lucia, Ita I teach Maths and Physics in a secondary school. I believe it is fundamental for students whose first language is different from the language of schooling because they will be supported by subject teachers who have a much better understanding of the role that language plays in knowledge building. I am a teacher in pr I am a teacher in primary school. I am teaching language subject in the classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Being aware of the diversity of languages learners helps a teacher to recognize the differences in behavior and attitude of learners and how to pattern his teaching. Tiziana Varone, Ita Tiziana Varone, Ita I'm a ¨language-aware¨ teacher: I believe in the benefits coming from learning a second tongue, first of all the freedom to travel and work all over the world; I also think that living language diversity in classroom is an added value of the school experience, because it compells students and teachers to really do the effort to communicate in the language of the other and to daily practice a foreign language I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. Varvara Gashenko, Latvia Varvara Gashenko, Latvia i teach English and German in a secondary professional school and i need this course because i would like to use different CLIL activities at my lessons in order to make them more interested in English I I Odarka Kukite, Latvia Odarka Kukite, Latvia i teach English and French in a secondary professional school and i need this course in order to help my foreign students to improve their language awareness. Alessandra Amideo, Alessandra Amideo, ITALY I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian language and literature. Yes, I feel like a teacher who is attentive to the language. I think it is important to be a teacher who knows the language because it gives you the awareness of mastering it and consequently transmitting it to the students. . Roberta Di Pietro, Italy Roberta Di Pietro, Italy I teach in the primary school and to some extent, I think to be a language aware teacher. Luckily, I studied languages and I've been abroad learning in other languages. This influence my way of approachingbilingual students. However I know I can still improve and I hope this course will give me further information and help me finding more effective strategies to teach to my students and help them improve their learning methods and their language awareness, those who are bilingual and those who aren't, to help them become better citizens. Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) I teach English in a primary school with a small number of pupils from foreign countries. I believe it is fundamental to implement linguistic awareness for the purposes of integration and inclusion, important educational values to be transmitted. Rosy (Italy) Rosy (Italy) I am a teacher in a secondary school in Catania. I work with guys who have special needs and in my classroom there are only two foreign students. I Think that language awareness is important for every teacher and usefull to help pupils whose first language is different from the school's one. It is important not only to teach a foreign language but also to make pupils aware of the cultures of other school mates. School is not only a place where everyone acquires knowledge, but also a place where one learns to live together and builds common values . So that, everyone can find our place in classroom. Federica (Italy) Federica (Italy) I feel like a language-curious teacher rather than being aware of language diversity in my classroom. I still need to readapt my teaching to capture more effectively those who are bilingual and also to make Italian mother tongue students aware of their peers' difficulties Mariateresa De Mattia Mariateresa De Mattia I'm a teacher in an Italian school at Foggia.In my classroom i work with pupils who have special needs and so I think that language awareness is very important to comunicate and help them in their difficulties Alex_PT Alex_PT I am an EFL teacher in Portugal in a rural area, and even though we haven’t had many immigrants, the truth is that in the last – let’s say – two years, we’ve welcome some eastern Europeans, but basically, Brazilians. These students are all having extra classes in Portuguese in order to be able to comply and in what concerns my subject English as a Foreign Language, they are also problematic. I believe I am a language-aware teacher, conscious that my sts’ proficiency varies according to the context and subject – in Portuguese or English! Nevertheless, I have no doubts that if I was native-born or had more opportunities for local professional development, I would certainly acquire not only a more accurate language sensitivity but also have a better, improved perception of sociocultural aspects. Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy I'm a teacher in an Italian Primary School. In my school there are children who came from different parts of world, especially from China. There are also many pupils whit special needs. In my opinion, the language awareness is very important to help these students in their difficulties. I'ld like to improuve my knowledge for my job and for the benefit of children. Claudia Mazzone -Italy Claudia Mazzone -Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school in Naples. I work with guys who have particular needs. In the class where I teach there are students who come from different parts of the world. I'd like to improve my linguistic skills, because I think that the language awareness is a fundamental way to communicate with foreigners students, to check out their abilities and difficulties, in the way to make them feel part of the class, with benefits for their schoolmates and teachers. Rita Xuereb, Malta Rita Xuereb, Malta I am a Kindergarten Educator in a Maltese Public School, and our school population consists mainly of immigrants from all over the world. It's very difficult to communicate in Maltese so we use English as our common language. It’s also very interesting to observe how these 3-5 year olds communicate with each other in spite of their multicultural and language diversity. I would like to learn how to take advantage of this reality for the benefit of the children. RITA LUISO -ITALY RITA LUISO -ITALY I am a teacher in a technical school where there are a lot of immigrant and I try to make them aware of the importance of knowledge of a language to communicate to the other. In my classroom there different students with special needs and I'd like to improve my knowledge to help these students Daniela Galea, Malta Daniela Galea, Malta I am a primary teacher at Marsascala Primary School in Malta. My school is one of the most multicultural schools on our island that's why I think it is very important to make students aware of the importance of communicating through language. Martina Tettamanzi, Italy Martina Tettamanzi, Italy I am a teacher in an Italian Secondary School. I'm willing to improve my knowledge about communication and language awaress in order to help foreing students to learn a new language. I am a teacher in se I am a teacher in secondary school to students with special needs and I think it’s very important and useful to explore the communicative resources in the classroo I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. That is why I think it is important to get to your pupils/students and make them aware of the importance of communicate through language, any language. Daniela Roversi Daniela Roversi I teach German in an Italian Secondary school. I think, it's very useful, that the teacher remembers, how he/she learnt a foreign language, when he/she was at school. Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta I am a primary teacher in the tiny island of Gozo. Our mother tongue is Maltese and our second language is English. We start teaching both languages to our students from a very young age. Maltese, our mother language is part of our identity and culture, however English helps us communicate with the rest of the world. Filomena Montella, Italy Filomena Montella, Italy I am a teacher of Italian language and literature and history in secondary school. I strongly believe in the value of language as an important element of communication, that is, "putting in common" a message and having the right feedback HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY I am a teacher in a country where immigrants live intensively. I have a lot of information about this. I think I need more information about this. I find this course very important.

Ciro ( Italy)

2018-09-24 16:18:38 UTC

Hi everyone.
I'm Ciro, 35 yo, from South of italy and living in Milan as a teacher of Italian literature and History.
To me different languages are the medium. the link to the wolrld because, by them, it's possible to aim a different view on our life improving who we are and devoloping who will be. Speaking in different language make us more confidential to the others, more open-minded and theese can also help us teacher to better interconnect with a worlwide school pupils.

Cinzia (Sicily) I'm a Math and Science's teacher in a secondary school of Ragusa, i think it's important teaching using CLIL language to communicate with all my students specially with foreign students

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Gökhan (Turkey)

2018-09-24 16:19:56 UTC

I'm a teacher in a secondary school. I think CLIL activities are very important. Because so our students can give importance to learning new languages.

Nicoletta (Italy, Sicily)

2018-09-24 16:22:08 UTC

I'm a Tecnology's teacher in a secondary school. I think it is very important to teach using the activities of the Clil to speak in a universal way with the students

I'm a teacher in the Primary School and I'm deeply persuaded about the importance to teach foreign languages in this School and to develope Language Awareness. There are a lot of reasons we could say to support this affirmation, and these reasons touch surely several areas of the Human and Social Being. I'd like to write here only three words: self-consciousness, power and freedom.

2018-09-24 16:23:04 UTC

Diana

Daisy (Italy

daisydegio — 2018-09-24 16:23:32 UTC

I'm a language teacher in a secondary school, I'd like to reflect on the usage of the language I'm currently teaching (English and German); I think this course will improve my teaching skills, making me more aware of language diversity, with a change of perspective and a deeper insight in this topic.

Marco (Italy)

2018-09-24 16:24:06 UTC

I'm a Math and Science teacher at an Italian middle school (10-13 years). I have always been aware of the importance to know foreign languages, especially English, to be able to interact with everybody in the world, thus improving the own culture and open mindedness. However, after becoming a teacher, I realized even more how important is the knowledge of foreign languages to set up a school environment which is really inclusive. Now, I would need some technical hints more on how CLIL methodology could be introduced in a course to be effective.

Marco Vitiello, Ascoli Piceno

2018-09-24 16:26:31 UTC

I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Teaching helps me to reflect on my mother tongue as well as on the other foreign languages. Learning a different language develops critical thinking, increases appreciation for a different culture and language and at the same time it develops the ability of better communnication and understanding.

Costina, Heidelberg

I am a primary school teacher. It is my second year at this level (I was a Romanian teacher).

2018-09-24 16:27:13 UTC

I'm a psychology teacher and I try to give many importance to my students's language as in italian as in a foreign language. It's importan use language like a way to go inner the mind and the earth of students.

2018-09-24 16:28:48 UTC

Hi everybody,

2018-09-24 16:29:25 UTC

I'm Alessia and I teach English as a second language in Primary School. I live and work in North Italy. In my lessons I have to cope with students of different backgrounds and different languages: quite often Italian is their second language. I hope this course will help me to "use" cultural and language diversity to improve my lessons

Sylwia, Poland

2018-09-24 16:31:32 UTC

Hello everyone
I'm the teacher of English in primary and secondary school. The LA gives conscious in language learning, motivates to use language in diffrent situations.

hi! I am Carmen, a teacher of English from Romania. I think I am a teacher aware of language, but still have a great desire and grit to learn more in order to assist my students better.

2018-09-24 16:34:00 UTC

Linda

2018-09-24 16:35:14 UTC

I teach in a secondary school. I would like to improve communicating more effectively with students who do not speak the main language of instruction

Hi everybody! I'm Alessia and I teach English as a second language in Primary School. I live and work in North Italy. In my classes I have to cope with language and cultural diversity quite often since lots of my students have a different linguistic background. I strongly support the idea that being aware of those difference and, above all, bieng able to "use" them to improve my lessons is vital to improve my teaching practice.

2018-09-24 16:35:29 UTC

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2018-09-24 16:37:02 UTC

I am a teacher in the primary school

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gabrymule_gmt — 2018-09-24 16:38:01 UTC

Michela, chemistry teacher from Italy.

2018-09-24 16:38:20 UTC

On my opinion, teaching in languages different from our mothertongue is very important for both teachers and students.

Students with a good L. A. have a lot of benefits in term of, for example, development of brain skills or acquisition of new ways of perceiving the world.

Giuseppina (Italy)

gabrymule_gmt — 2018-09-24 16:38:21 UTC

I'm a teacher of Scienze and Math in a secondary school and living in Ragusa (Sicily).
I think that is very important nowadays to be a language-aware teacher because of our world is every time more international and every school because a mix of cultures of all over world

Maria Goreti Silva Rocha (Portugal)

2018-09-24 16:39:24 UTC

I teach physics and chemistry. In my opinion is very important that students become aware of the importance of speaking english and other languages to understand the global world in which they live. I use CLIL to teach the disciplinary contents, the learning of the English language is assumed transversally.
I hope to learn more about CLIL during this course.

Francesca Italy

neiviller_francesca — 2018-09-24 16:39:38 UTC

I'm an english Teacher, The best way to make students understand that speaking a lanuage is an ability, the aim of which is communicate, there's no way out ,the best thing to do is to do a lot of practice and to have a reason why you want to learn to speak that Language , you mustn't be obliged to study it!!!

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Giedre (Lithuania)

2018-09-24 16:40:14 UTC

I'm an English teacher. I teach from 2nd to 8th grades students in progymnasium. I think it's important to make my students aware of communicating languages. And also I think I will learn more teaching methodology in this course.

Mihaela, romania

salistemihaela — 2018-09-24 16:57:52 UTC

SPEAKING IN MORE LANGUAGES FOLLOWS MORE TO HIS SUFLET AND THAT YOU ARE ENOUGH TO EXPRESS AND MAKE YOUR FORCE

Anna, Italy. I'm a teacher for special need. Improving the language awareness helps to communicate with people with different culture. This can help to reach the acceptance of diversity and the best coexistence of different cultures. It manages to approach different cultures and try to understand them and know them not to be afraid of them.

scriminacianna — 2018-09-24 16:59:56 UTC

Hande Türker

hande_28_hy — 2018-09-24 17:01:01 UTC

Hi, I am an English teacher in a Secondary School in Turkey. I think i am a LA teacher with not many specifications:)To be honest, I am aware but i don't have many ideas to apply this knowledge into the lessons.I've been working for five years but i haven't had students with different languages but i want to improve myself in creating new athmospheres in the classroom. I want to prepare myself for the future because i may have students like that. And if not, i think i have to be more aware what is going on in the world and what the new aspects towards education are. In order to improve the students' language skills, teachers have to know about their way of thinking and understanding the world around. So, i wish i will learn new ways of applying effective methods in language classrooms.

Michela, I'm an English teacher and Ith

2018-09-24 17:01:52 UTC

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2018-09-24 17:01:53 UTC

Michela, I'm an English teacher and I think being la

2018-09-24 17:02:04 UTC

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2018-09-24 17:02:56 UTC

Hi I am JESÚS from Spain and I teach English in infant level , what you can learn from them is amazing seing them speak in a new language , how they improve their motivation to do it right, so to teach a child a new way to create communication is something that can not be compare with nothing else in the world.

2018-09-24 17:05:48 UTC

Giuseppina V. Italy

2018-09-24 17:06:13 UTC

Honestly I don’t know whether I feel like a language-aware teacher or not. I believe it is important being aware of the differences between Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) whether you teach in your mother tongue or teach in the target language (i.e. CLIL) or teach Italian as a second language to foreign students.

Ela, Poland

2018-09-24 17:08:30 UTC

First of all I would like to say that bilingual education is more and more popular in my country. I am history, literature teacher and English as well. So, I can teach bilingual education. I try to do it time to time, for example when we disscusing about book which is written by English writer. Polish lessons have English language component. It is ocassion to improve language awareness. Secondly, I have travelled a lot, so my travel experience is very useful for teaching. I have got some ainteresting educational materials, e.g. leaflets, maps, short films. I use it in different way but generally it helps to gain students to cultural and linguistics competence.

2018-09-24 17:09:22 UTC

I am soon to become a teacher and I think that learning different languages is very beneficial for incorporating new methods and concepts for our students.we can provide alternatives to students and make them understand well.

Lu, English teacher (Italy)

dileo87 — 2018-09-24 17:12:15 UTC

I'm an English teacher in a Secondary School. I've worked with students coming from different countries and I think that LA is essential to motivate the students... I like active participation in classes and to know their opinions about topics we learn together. According to me, teaching means "always learning" and the first questions to my students are: "Do you like foreign languages? did you go abroad? would you like to live abroad in the future?"
Moreover, learning a foreign language means learning another culture and have another point of view. For sure, I need to improve teaching strategies (everyone has always to improve something) but I think to be "language-aware" :)

Maria Jastrząb

mjastrz92 — 2018-09-24 17:12:38 UTC

I'm early primary education teacher. Learning and teaching languages is a great opportunity to expand your horizons. It's amazingly valuable both for teachers and students.

FILOMENA BIANCO, ITALY

2018-09-24 17:15:15 UTC

I feel I'm a language-aware teacher, being a teacher of English in a middle secondary school, where
- students speak their local dialect and Italian
- students learn two foreign languages, English and French or Spanish
- the number of foreign students is increasing more and more

Caterina fantini

cate_67 — 2018-09-24 17:18:03 UTC

Italy
I'm a primary school teacher. I have a multiethnic class and the diversity of languages is very important to enrich the work. Students open their minds and know other cultures.

dileo87 — 2018-09-24 17:22:39 UTC

the students... I like active participation in classes and to know their opinions about topics we learn together. According to me, teaching means "always learning" and the first questions to my students are: "Do you like foreign languages? did you go abroad? would you like to live abroad in the future?" Moreover, learning a foreign language means learning another culture and have another point of view. For sure, I need to improve teaching strategies (everyone has always to improve something) but I think to be "language-aware" :)

Brigida Calise

2018-09-24 17:23:47 UTC

I'm a secondary school teacher. My classes are multiethnic. In my opionion LA is essential and I absolutely agree with the definition of LA as the explicit knowledge about language, and conscious perception and sensitivity in language learning, language teaching and language use. I feel like a language-aware teacher and I try my best to improve. Having students who speak different languages is a powerful tool to enhance, exchange and motivate language learning.

Dimitra P., Greece

2018-09-24 17:24:29 UTC

Hello, everyone! What I think on the matter is that the world is constantly changing and, of course, the new era is more demanding both on learners and on teachers. Nowadays, we recognize that all European citizens should have sufficient knowledge of at least three European languages, which means that, above all, they need to conquer the capacity of language learning in an early stage of life (at least according to Chomsky). To understand the “deeper” structures of our mother tongue is crucial and it doesn’t happen by accident. To some people it doesn’t happen at all during their life –time. Bilinguals and multilinguals have a benefit over this, as Cummins and other scholars have suggested. Even more the linguistic landscape of Europe is bound to change, due to migration. Language awareness will be highly important, as language is a vehicle for culture. I believe that a teacher who is aware of linguistic deep structures, will be more equipped to help diverse pupils to enculturate to new ethnic/cultural backgrounds.

Ayşe,Turkey

fable_tugcee_90 — 2018-09-24 17:30:01 UTC

I am a teacher in pre-primary and primary school. I think the students aware of everything and they can speak new language easily. I applied Clil in my school and my students addict this method so it can apply easily.

Hanife, Turkey

2018-09-24 17:31:07 UTC

I am an English teacher in a secondary school. LA is very important that we explore during the process. I want to give my pupils experiences that expand their creativity, social skills and cultural scope. It is an exciting experince to explore another culture, language and a way of living. It is also important for pupils to learn through authentic communication. So, laening a language requires a language awareness during the learning process.

2018-09-24 17:37:05 UTC

Angela Italy

2018-09-24 17:38:20 UTC

At the moment I'm a pre-school teacher but I thought English also in primary and secondary school.

Hi, everyone!

2018-09-24 17:39:05 UTC

I Think that I have to improve much more my language awareness in a double way: as a student and consequently as a teacher (we don't stop studying as teachers). It's clear that in a class composed by pupils coming from different countries and speaking at home a language different from the national one it Will be a bit different for the teacher be able to offer the right linguistica support to everyone But I'm here to try to learn it!
Maria Grazia Monteleone
Italy

Angela Italy

2018-09-24 17:42:47 UTC

My pre-school class is multiethnic and I think LA is essential. Small children can learn easily.

Hi, everyone. Greetings from Portugal (Eduarda )

2018-09-24 17:44:02 UTC

In my own perspective I believe I have still a long way to go as far as being language aware. I do feel the need to learn a lot more about this topic as the school I'm teaching is attended by different ethnies.Therefore I do need to learn a lot. But that's what being a teacher means: constantly learni g

2018-09-24 17:44:02 UTC

According to me, language awareness is a great opportunity for teachers and students.

Moreno, Rieti, Italy

2018-09-24 17:44:26 UTC

I don't feel so much confident about langiage. I am a science field teacher so I have a good practice about the technical language that I use for my purpouse but not so much about the real grammar and technical rules

Magda Uleia , Romania

2018-09-24 17:45:07 UTC

I teach Math and ITC and my first meet with languages it was in the front of computer - at the beginning all was in english... WOW , I have studied only French and Deutch in school. Step by step I have learn English , I have start some projects on eTwinning , Comenius, Erasmus . Without languages all that was impossible! I study everyday in Math , in languages , in sociology. It is very nice , we still remained in contact with our students! Every day I try to prove to my studets that all we learn in school is important for us , for our future .

Vicky Archondi, Greece

almyros_teachers4europe — 2018-09-24 17:54:24 UTC

Being an English teacher and a linguist presupposes a certain degree of language awareness. However, for me language awareness goes hand in hand with culture awareness. So, if I wish to understand and learn my students' mother tongues , I should first of all be willing to embrace their cultures' wonders and secrets.

José Carlos Lopes, Guarda, Portugal

2018-09-24 18:03:20 UTC

As a Guarda citizen, a little city next to the border of Spain, I grew up watching both Portuguese and Spanish TV. So I'm very confortable with Spanish language. As a 21st century citizen I learned english and french in school. Of course English should be everyone's second language in order to everyone could have a common language and feel like a real European citizen. Nowadays everybody in one way or another, better or worse, can understand basic english. We also know that language learning is much easier in early ages so, as a teacher I can only be language-awared for the languages I really feel prepared for. It´s not easy for a portuguese teacher to be prepared to communicate with a morocan, a sirian or with an iraquian pupil. But I also think that most of everyone can, nowadays, communicate in english. So, if it is the case, I think I can be aware and prepared to have a multilingual classroom with more than one language and teach in this environment.

Irina Zama, Romania

2018-09-24 18:05:58 UTC

I'm a teacher of English and as part of my job I teach high school students but also younger ones privately and I have prepared many students for Cambridge exams. Teaching a language to students whose mother tongue you do not know can be really challenging. However, during my 2 months teaching in England to multilingual groups (Italian and Spanish) was really revealing for me. I realised it is much easier to teach students who have your own mother tongue than those who don't. Also, as I have a pretty good command of Italian and Spanish too, and of their culture, it was easier for me to teach them than teaching Chinese students. Knowing the cultural background and being aware of language differences can be helpful in reaching out to the students and getting through to them

Gla

bondargladiola — 2018-09-24 18:17:52 UTC

Gladiola Bondar, Borca - Romania

bondargladiola — 2018-09-24 18:17:53 UTC

Hello!

I'm a teacher in a primary school.

I think it is very important for my students to become aware of language.

My students learn to become aware of the language through active listening, explaining new words, making new statements, telling what they have read ...

Language awareness develops logical thinking, imagination, students are more creative.

Students cooperate on lessons, interact, learn together.

Chiara, Italy

2018-09-24 18:18:11 UTC

I teach Italian, I try to be a language-aware teacher because languages are beautiful and
through the words you can understand people.

Dzeina, a native Latvian teaching English in Spain

2018-09-24 18:19:51 UTC

Language awareness is an extremely important and many times overlooked aspect of learning. There are both stimulating and a little bit stifling practices at the school where I teach, trying to reach bilingualism (Spanish-Englisih) without translanguaging elements such as translation, which in my opinion are vital in becoming language aware. There are non-native students who do not receive the necessary amount of support for acquiring English and or Spanish, and their cultural and linguistic heritage tends to be overlooked unfairly. Having said that: I must admit that multilingual classrooms and multicultural education environment ca both be stimulating and exhausing at the same time. I am looking forward to learning some strategies to make my teaching life a bit easier. Cheers to all my colleagues from all over Europe!

Mara, Capri Island, Italy

2018-09-24 18:23:10 UTC

I'm an English teacher at secondary schools. I think it is important to be language-aware also because in the last years we are experiencing the presence of many students coming from different countries with different cultures and languages. Being language-aware means also to respect them and make any possible efforts of speak to their hearts and not only to their heads!

I'm Laura, a primary teacher from Italy

2018-09-24 18:25:55 UTC

Language is a vehicle for learning. It is through language that learners access the content of the lesson and communicate their ideas. So, as teachers, it's our responsibility to make sure that language isn’t a barrier to learning.

One way to achieve this is to become more ‘language aware’. Being language aware means that we understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. A teacher who is ‘language aware’ understands why students face some difficulties and what they can do to support them.

Maria A.

2018-09-24 18:27:31 UTC

Palau,Sardinia Italy
I teach Italian and English in a Primary School. I feel even more convinced about the importance of being language aware.
I'm very happy to have the opportunity to teach both Italian and English,I hope to improve my knowledge thanks to this course.

Maria A

2018-09-24 18:27:31 UTC

Hi there

2018-09-24 18:28:40 UTC

I am Mariagrazia and I teach science and geography in CLIL and also English as a
Foreign language. I have been teaching clil for two years so far and I feel i am becoming more and more language aware: I mean I can discover the limguistic world of my multilingua classes...I think that teaching using different language ... that is for example using code swiching...is really great for children and can be really DEMOCRATIC ...I mean no language is more important than others...

Languages awareness

2018-09-24 18:28:52 UTC

Being a Portuguese English teacher I try to improve my confidence in the learning/teaching process so that I can share my experiences and knowledge with others, students and teachers!! So, language awareness, is a powerful tool to be successful in our professional life!! It allows us to understand and be understood!!

Paola T.,Palestrina(Roma, Italy)

torniai_paola — 2018-09-24 18:36:07 UTC

Hi! I teach Art History in Secondary School. CLIL is a very important approach to teaching the content of curricular subjects through the medium of a non native language.

Zorica S.

prof_zoricasubotic — 2018-09-24 18:37:13 UTC

I am a teacher in a secendory school. Being aware of the language, means being aware of all the opportunities provided by that language.. I think that language awareness is very needed to better comunicate and use language skills. My opinion is that it is very important to speak different languages.

Serena from Italy

ruscitoserena — 2018-09-24 18:37:32 UTC

Hi, I'm a support teacher (Special Needs) I think the language awareness is important for all the teachers in the different subjects, we need each of the different languages that students speak in class.

Sonia in Ireland

scrimmins — 2018-09-24 18:41:47 UTC

I agree that language awareness is very important in all classrooms. In my school context we see huge diversity especially in terms of students' L1. As a language teacher I sometimes feel a conflict between a communicative focus and explicit teaching of grammar/pronunciation etc. Within the conversations around grammar students who speak more than one language bring valuable perspectives (CUP) but often need encouragement to see their own backgrounds as an advantage, some are really shy about this difference in experience in fact.

Hi, I'm a primary school teacher. I have been teaching English for several years and I have experienced the effectiveness of the connection between the characteristics of the mother tongue and those of the language to learn: I noticed that my pupils learn more easily if the similarities with their own language are highlighted and such learning also remains long time away. in my practice I try to promote this "game of similarities and differences" as much as possible because I believe that learning a new language also passes through this awareness.

2018-09-24 18:42:07 UTC

Mary

2018-09-24 18:49:24 UTC

I think that language awareness develops logical thinking. It's important to comunicate and interact with all people.

Sarah, UK

2018-09-24 18:54:57 UTC

We need as teachers to be language aware so we can plan for and meet the needs of individual children.

Roberta

2018-09-24 18:55:01 UTC

I am Roberta and I'm a primary school teacher.
I teach Italian and English. I think it is very important to propose clil activities to children even if they are very young

Elena

2018-09-24 18:56:24 UTC

I am an Italian guitar teacher. I do not have foreign students in my classroom but I am very interested in this subject anyway.

Oleg

pasz — 2018-09-24 18:57:12 UTC

I live in the border between Czech and Polnad. Almost everybody here speaks both languages. It is very nice. In my school I have students who finished Czech and Polish primary schools. We teach Czech, but I would like to use both languages.

Ana, Lisbon PT

anamadalenaf_1972 — 2018-09-24 19:01:04 UTC

My school is a multicultural one, with more than 30 nationalities present. In my classes I always have many nationalities at the same time and I always try to take that in mind and involve each and every student in the learning activities. I also always try tomake my foreign pupils more confortable by learning some key words in their languages, so I can great them or thank them in a more personal way. I hope to learn a lot from this course so I can improuve my practices!

Maja

2018-09-24 19:02:05 UTC

Language awareness is one of the most important competencies teacher should have in a school like mine, where there are minority students and more and more foreign students. Teacher without this competence could easily affect on students low academic succsess and it is so unfair to thoose students.

Cinzia Marrone Italy

2018-09-24 19:05:49 UTC

Hi, I’m a primary English teacher and I believe in importance of languages in school curriculum.I think the youngest we start learning, the better we became aware of languages.

Alina, Romania My name is Alina ... I am a mathematics-physics-computer science teacher at the gymnasium ... My students learn from primary classes two foreign languages (English and German) but some know Italian or Greek because they spend their holidays with their parents gone to work abroad.

2018-09-24 19:14:58 UTC

So I think very much in the knowledge, in the expression so that they can demonstrate what they have learned and realized

Importance of linguistic diversity

2018-09-24 19:16:07 UTC

I think today that classes are increasingly different in origin, language awareness develops logical thinking. It is important to communicate and interact with all people.

HartmutSchmidtke,Germany

hasc56 — 2018-09-24 19:16:45 UTC

I am an English teacher at a secondary school and think that language awareness today is more important than 20 years ago.

MARIA ITALY

soleconcetta96 — 2018-09-24 19:17:51 UTC

I think that learning a language means not only to know how a new language works but also and above all to understand another culture . All this in some way change and improve your identity.

Gianfranca Italy

2018-09-24 19:22:25 UTC

I'm a teacher in a secondary school. I think language awareness is very important to communicate with people and I really need to attend this course to improve my competences, to teach to my students the importance of a well spoken language.

Floriana from Italy

selvaggiofloriana — 2018-09-24 19:30:33 UTC

Hi, I'm an italian teacher in a primary school. I think CLIL activities are very important because language is a veicle for learning and pupils to

Cinzia Italy

cinzfior — 2018-09-24 19:30:42 UTC

I teach in a secondary school where 50% are students coming from abroad. I always underline how is important to learn other cultures and words in different languages. Last year we realized some short videos to explain easy words in Italian to our Lithuanian partner and they did the same. My students realized how foreign sounds can be difficult to produce and how we can teach our language. I also always underline the importance of dirrent cultures in our classroom as a richness.

2018-09-24 19:30:54 UTC

Giuseppina Tumino - Italy
I’m a Science and Math’s teacher in an Italian Secondary School.
In my classroom there are some foreign studente, so i think it is very important to’ teacher using CLIL language, beccasse so our students can give importance to learning new languages.
I home this course will give me new strategies and I can ti use English language in different situatios.
I find this course very important.

Carmen from Italy

carmenparli2003 — 2018-09-24 19:34:05 UTC

I am an Italian primary school teacher and I feel like a language aware teacher. It is important to boost enhanced consciousness and sensitivity to the forms and functions of the language. I live and teach in Italy but I am Romanian mother tongue, so that Italian is a second language for me (L2) and English a foreign language. In all three cases I tried out by myself the meaning of formal language (CALP) and also informal communication (BICS).

To be aware of language use you need a good preparation in your mother tongue and also a good knowledge of a foreign language; there are linguistic tools that can be transferred from mother tongue or maybe not and it is important to use also the metalinguistic code.

Ilaria from Italy

ilaria_viola — 2018-09-24 19:34:29 UTC

Clil is a very smart way of learning by doing, by using languages in different activities and topics. I like it a lot!

Mustafa from Turkey

suedaerol — 2018-09-24 19:35:37 UTC

Hello there. I am a secondary school teacher in Turkey. I have students speaking different languages in my class and I would like to take this course to give a better education to these students.

Floriana from Italy

selvaggiofloriana — 2018-09-24 19:36:16 UTC

Hi, I'm an italian teacher in a primary school. I think CLIL activities very important because language is a veicle for learning and pupils can to comunicate in other cultures.

Francesca, Italy

prof_miceli — 2018-09-24 19:37:51 UTC

Hi everybody, I'm a secondary school teacher in the suburbs of Milan. I think that acknowledging and embracing language diversity as an enriching factor in our classes, is a key issue and a big challenge for teachers. I like to think I'm a lifelong student, so I'm not sure I'm as "language aware" as I should, but I try to stimulate my students reflections on how English works in order to find differences and similarities between their L1 and the foreign languages they study at school and make learning a relevant experience for them (someone already mentioned Chomsky, and neurolinguistics is what I'm thinking of when I talk about similarities). I hope to find out useful practices and suggestions to make my effort more effective.

Athena, Nafpaktos-Greece

athenaanastasiadou1 — 2018-09-24 19:37:51 UTC

I ve been working as astate school teacher of english 16 years now and I feel the need to communicate with my students now more than ever.. A multicultural classroom is a phenomenon i come across more and more and i feel that language awareness can help me understand and be understood in a more effective way.

Antonino, Italy

a_aiello1 — 2018-09-24 19:44:52 UTC

Hello, there! I'm a English Teacher in an Italian school. Language Awareness covers a wide spectrum of definition, but I would like to put it in practice, I mean, Everyone should connect language to our brain function and understand that each word has a meaning not only because it defines something, but also because a brain has thought it

Iveta Leinberga, Latvia

2018-09-24 19:45:13 UTC

Teaching English is like creating an art work. You always have to be creative and flexible to meet your students` needs and to find the best way to their hearts. English language has become an important communication tool in our everyday life as well as in the business world. English language can help learners to access the greatest treasure - knowledge. Teachers have to be aware of the diversity of English language learners, their cultural background. We all perceive and remember information in different ways so different teaching methods should be applied as well. I consider that interpersonal communication skills are of paramount importance in English language teaching. Language awareness has become an important tool in English language teaching and I hope it will continue its development.

Sílvia

2018-09-24 19:46:58 UTC

I'm a secondary teacher and this year I'm using CLIL to explain Maths in English. I hope that my students will learn not only Maths but also that we can use English to communicate and learn more about other cultures.

Elisa, form Belluno (ITALY)

2018-09-24 19:47:34 UTC

Even though ours is a small community, our classes have their share of students with different backgrounds, such as pupils from South America, Eastern Europe countries, China. The majority of these students has arrived in Italy, if not in Belluno, at a very young age, so they present a good linguistic competence when speaking Italian for everyday communication with their peers. Problems emerge, though, when acquiring new concepts or specific lexicon in different subjects (e.g. geography, geology, history) or when writing longer essays in class. To help them work on their difficulties, I often try to create comparative tables, with the same word in italian, English,

Laura Gianfranceschi

laura_gianfranceschi — 2018-09-24 19:48:17 UTC

Hi everybody! I am math and science teacher in a secondary school. My students are not used to be aware to the scientific language. I am confident that the CLIL tecniques would be able to stimulate them to use wright languange and to be aware of the chances that they can have.

Lucia, from Italy - Puglia

2018-09-24 19:48:17 UTC

I'm a teacher from primary school. Language awareness is very important not only for foreign language teachers but also for teachers of any subject, like me.

İSHAK KURT - MANİSA - TURKEY

kurtishak16 — 2018-09-24 19:54:32 UTC

I see myself as proficient in foreign language. I can speak 3 languages and I can understand. I think that knowing language is very important in learning and teaching processes. If the teacher does not have the language of the audience to teach, learning will fail. language skills are very important for the development of cultural transmission or transfer ability. Otherwise, the messages will not be transferred with the correct channel.

Daniela from Parma

ferraguti_danie — 2018-09-24 19:57:02 UTC

I think that language awareness is an important perspective for an English teacher, who can be considered as the "director" of language teaching in a school. If you know more than a language you have got a powerful weapon in your hands and you must learn how to use it!

Silvia DM, Italy

2018-09-24 19:58:26 UTC

Language awareness is a crucial topic when you teach in multilingual classes like me. I hope to learn how to exploit this variety in a positive wayfor the benefit of my students.

Irene from Rome

2018-09-24 20:10:06 UTC

Hi my dear collegues I'm a primary's school teacher. I agree about the importance of LA like a tool to development and improve cognitive and social skills in our students.
Othermore the LA could help the students to be more self-confident and open-minded about the social and culture diversities.

selvaggiofloriana — 2018-09-24 20:10:32 UTC

Alessandra, Pordenone - Italy

2018-09-24 20:13:46 UTC

I teach italian, history and geography in a secondary school. In my school there are students with migratory background. I think is very important to improve my languange awareness in order to o improve the language skills of my students.

Alena, Czechia

2018-09-24 20:15:08 UTC

I´d like to become a more language-aware teacher, to learn how to foster BICS and CALP during L2 teaching.

The concept of Common Underlying Proficiency seems very helpful for language learning as well.

I´m looking forward to digging deeper into different CLIL activities and learning from others what works in their classes. :-)

Maria Grassi, Italy

2018-09-24 20:15:49 UTC

It's difficult to express my feelings about myself as a language aware teacher but I think it's important to be a language aware teacher because only if you can understand and find where is the common underlying proficiency between the different languages you can communicate with your students allowing them to achieve excellent results or language skills so I absolutely agree with Cummins theories...

Diana from Italy

rossatoquerini16 — 2018-09-24 20:21:27 UTC

I feel like a language.aware teacher but I need to improve the skills and tools to benefit from different languages in a classroom

Catello de Sinno - Italy

2018-09-24 20:21:49 UTC

I'm an English teacher and as language teachers know, there is much more to a language than simply knowing vocabulary and grammar and reproducing them in either written or oral form. By increasing students’ language awareness, the students are better able to understand, appreciate and use the language.

Brunella from Italy

2018-09-24 20:25:18 UTC

I'm not sure I'm really language aware in my daily work in class. That's why I want to learn more!

Debora (Italia

2018-09-24 20:26:16 UTC

Hi everybody!
I'm

Debora (Italia)

2018-09-24 20:33:00 UTC

Hi everybody,
I'm a primary school teacher.
I think that linguistic diversity can be perceived as a vari valuable pedagogical resource. In this way, the language awareness becomes a precious tool for more efficient and innovative teaching and learning.

Sinan Koru

2018-09-24 20:34:35 UTC

No I am not, but will be

Paola, Italy

2018-09-24 20:35:11 UTC

I think language awareness is crucial to understand that, when we teach learners in a second language, we have to take into consideration that they have different needs from those taught in their first language. Therefore, "language aware" teachers have to be able to include these needs in their teaching and planning. The second language becomes the medium for delivery of the subject message. If learners are not confident using the second language, they may not achieve very well, they may be demotivated, losing their interest in the subject. It's teachers' responsability to make sure that language isn't a barrier to learning and they have to support students, taking into consideration the difference between conversational language (BICS) and academic language (CALP) and overcome this bridge.
I need to deepen my knowledge concerning the benefits of teaching and learning through an additional language.

Sophia Italy

sophia_danesino — 2018-09-24 20:44:17 UTC

I teach computer science in a technical high-school. I've read an interesting article from https://www.cambridge-community.org.uk/professional-development/gswla/index.html
"Being language aware means you understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. These challenges might arise because a student is learning a subject through an additional language or it might be the first time a student has come across certain vocabulary or structures in their first language. A teacher who is ‘language aware’ understands why students face these difficulties and what they can do to support students."
I hope to be a "language aware" teacher when teaching my subject in English (CLIL). As I'm not a Language teacher I do not know if I'm effective in supporting my students.

2018-09-24 20:47:03 UTC

Giuseppina Tumino - Italia
I’m a Math and Science teacher in an Secondary School.
In my classroom there are foreign students, so I think it is very important ti teacher using CLIL language, because so our students can give importance to learning new language.
I home this course will give me new strategies and I can to use English language in different situazione.
I find this course very important.

Lucia,Crotone

luciasalatino25 — 2018-09-24 20:59:40 UTC

I think that teacher awareness is a very important skill to help all students to communicate

Mary

dmvd1 — 2018-09-24 21:04:53 UTC

I think that language awareness develops logical thinking. It's important to comunicate and interact with all people.

Liana (Italy)

2018-09-24 21:07:28 UTC

Hallo! I teach italian language and literature, history and geography in the secondary school. I think to be a language-aware teacher, so through this course I would like to improve my competences and develop my interests about it. In the school context, beeing a language-aware teacher is a way to pay attention on reciprocal style of communication, starting by the use of each word; moreover is an opportunity to involve pupils in the communicative interactions trying to let themselves aware of the differences and similarities and how language is a precious heritage that includes a wider weltanschauung, emotions etc. etc.
All those aspects contribute to the general growth of students as persons and citizens of the world, and improve the process of teaching and learning.

Daniela, Portugal

dmvd1 — 2018-09-24 21:08:04 UTC

Hi! My name is Daniela Daniel and I’m a Portuguese teacher. I teach English in a public school in Portugal. My students are aged between 9 and 13. As I teach young people they sometimes feel reluctant when I propose talking activities. Nevertheless, I always teach them that the most important of all is the ability to communicate. Of course, that language awareness is very important but, on my point of view, it’s something that we can only develop if we aren’t afraid of saying something that isn’t completely correct in what grammar is concerned, for example.
So, in my opinion, communication is, not only much more important than language awareness, but also a way to achieve it.

Maria Paola

2018-09-24 21:12:57 UTC

Hi, I teach Science and Maths in a secondary school in Ragusa, a small city in the south of Sicily. I think that it is very important to comunicate with foreign students so, with this course I hope to learn new strategies to teach to my students. In my opinion, it could be usefull to introduce new methods and concepts io order to make my pupils aware of language. I hope my students will increase their knowledges and grow up during my lessons.

Bruna (Italy)

2018-09-24 21:13:26 UTC

Science teacher in a secondary technical school, sometimes I use some English in my lessons. Students don't always appreciate. But they're curious about other languages spoken by their foreign fellows, so I think I could use this language awarness to achieve better results and to make them open their mindas

Sara, Portugal

2018-09-24 21:13:41 UTC

Hi! My name it´s Sara and I´m a kindergarten teacher. I don´t have, in my class, kids that speaks another language but I think that is important learn and improve a foreign language, than you can talk with all the people and help some kids that may stay in your class.
In this moment I feel that I need to improve my skills and language awareness develops knowledge and helps you to comunicate and interact with everyone.

PaOLa

paola_oggi — 2018-09-24 21:16:30 UTC

A special class

2018-09-24 21:22:06 UTC

Hi, I'm a tea

Paola,Italy

2018-09-24 21:22:50 UTC

I think I'm a teacher who is aware of the language because I believe it is the most important goal, but I have several things to learn.

Esther, Spain

esanz — 2018-09-24 21:36:47 UTC

Hola!! My name is Esther and I am teacher trainer. I think it is so important to be aware of all the students` languages at school, at the playgroung, at home...A great opportunity to develop this awareness would be to celebrate the European Day of Languages in two days in class. It is great to give visibility to all our students´languages and students feel great and selfconfidence when they try to communicate in their own language or in their parents´language. ......it is a very richful experience for all the class.

sabrinalondon2004 — 2018-09-24 21:56:19 UTC

Sabrina, Italy
As I think I’m not aware enough, I’m following these activities in order to learn how to be. I’m a primary school teacher.

Giuseppe A, Italy

2018-09-24 22:00:43 UTC

Hello! I'm a Math teacher. I believe that being LA teacher is very important in these days. It happen that sometimes the only way you have to talk with some students from abroad is using english language. I do not feel like a LA teacher, because I don't konw many technical words about the subject I teach in English.

Ana Cristina Martins

2018-09-24 22:10:04 UTC

Paço de Arcos, Portugal
You become aware of the importance of language awareness when a first year student aged 5 asks you how do you know that his name is written on a paper just because he doesn't recognize any letter yet...
I am a POrtuguese-English teacher, this year have have the bilingual English-Portuguese teaching programme with the first year in my school. I have english, moldavian, chinese and russian students in the classroom....

FRANCESCA ITALY

2018-09-24 22:26:37 UTC

I think that LA is the future of the learning because of the demographic globla changing; many of our students dont' speak italian and I believe that this is an opportunity for innovating the learning process

Raffaela , Italy

2018-09-24 22:40:04 UTC

I don't know if I really understand the meaning of Language awareness, but I'm sure I'm a good teacher when I can look at the world through my students' world views.

Rosa, Portugal

carinaribeiro18 — 2018-09-24 22:43:39 UTC

I think I have to learn a lot to be a "language-aware" teacher but i want it very hard, so I´m here to learn! I know that I will enjoy this Course!

Sharon Australia

2018-09-24 22:52:47 UTC

We all need to be aware of the language needs that are necessary in a lesson - the language features and structures should be made evident to students so that they can monitor their learning

Clara - Italy

2018-09-24 23:05:15 UTC

I teach Italian language, history and geography at a Secondary School. It's important to be a language aware teacher? I think so.
Nowdays I think that when the student is learning a subject through an additional language they improve their cognitive ability and prepares them for life beyond school.
Moreover teaching and learning through an additional language encourages understanding between cultures.

At last, a teacher who is ‘language aware’ understands why students have difficulties and what they can do to support them.

Annalisa- Italy

2018-09-24 23:15:45 UTC

I teach Italian language and history at the Secondary School. I would like to ameliorate my language awareness.

Esmeralda Portugal

esmeralda_carvalho — 2018-09-24 23:19:15 UTC

I´m very sorry not to be a "language aware teacher" . In my student time we did not go deepen a second language. So I´m here to learn very much with this course

Paola - Florence, Italy

paola_riello — 2018-09-24 23:24:38 UTC

Hi everybody!
I'm an English teacher at a lower secondary school and I'm not sure to be a language-aware teacher... but I try everyday to give some sort of explanation to my students about how English works comparing it to other foreign languages and cultures through examples. Anyway I think this course is the right one to learn and improve my "awareness".

Marisa Badini Italy

marisa_badini — 2018-09-24 23:28:07 UTC

I teach English in Primary school as a second language and I deal with pupils from other Countries, or with a Family language different from Italian. That's why I think It's crucial to learn more and more, in order to give more chances to students and have more effective teaching methods. Language diversity is a great opportunity to open to different worlds and a multilingual class is a rainbow to explore.

I

2018-09-25 02:12:51 UTC

I'm Delicia Rojas..from Peru..

2018-09-25 02:12:51 UTC

Even though I think I'm not a Language awareness teacher because there are still different aspects I need to know such as the challenges it takes to become one, but I try to encourage my students to keep learning a language that can break barriers and open new doors.

Ana B. Portuga

ana_biscoito — 2018-09-25 04:02:17 UTC

As a primary teacher in an International School, I have a multicultural class. I think language awareness is very important if you want to provide good oportunities for building knowledge for all students.

Vanessa, Italy

vanerido — 2018-09-25 04:35:23 UTC

Being an English teacher, I basically always reflect on the Common Underlying Language: according to the grade of my students, I adapt my language when talking with them.

Monica Boccoli

mobocco — 2018-09-25 04:41:41 UTC

I think that nowadays we have to think that we are citizens of the world. Every people have a strong link with other people all over the world through the web too. We have to learn other languages, in particular, English, to develop projects to build peace, respect, knowledge in the world.

Chiara Sabatini, Italy

chisab72 — 2018-09-25 06:09:17 UTC

Language awareness is a feature that every teachers should know more about, so in this way it will be easier dealing with all the students and pupils in class. These days we are celebrating the EDL in our school and we are trying to do is to let understand the importance of all the languages and not only of English though English is the most used. In doing so also the students from different countries feel happy to share some expressions of their languages with their mates and are not ashamed of it. Said that I really looking forward to go into this matter as deep as we can.

Özcan TURAN, Türkiye

tuurann — 2018-09-25 06:29:05 UTC

I am English teacher I teach both in high school and primary school even between these schools you have to use different language

Rovena Trivanović

2018-09-25 06:32:57 UTC

Croatia
I'm a secondary school English teacher. Teaching Englsh at grammar school and School for the hotel and catering industry is quite a challenge because my task is to prepare the students to pass their leaving school exam called Državna matura and to provide them with tools and skills needed for a quality communication in the foreign language. That's way it's very important to be aware of the structure and social characteristics of our mother tongue as well as any other foreign language. The foundation in the sense of aquiring the basic rules is essential for any kind of upgrading

Gabriela Turea from Romania

2018-09-25 06:35:02 UTC

I am a French teacher in a high school. I think that language awareness is very important. This week we are celebrating EDL which has become a tradition activity in our school. Our students are involved in many Erasmus projects and step by step they realized the importance of foreign languages. Because knowing a language offers them new opportunities to make new friends, to communicate, to express their ideas, to discover new things.

Training language awareness definition

2018-09-25 06:58:07 UTC

I'm a project coordinator, I meet students who want to go abroad. The aspects of language awareness I'd like to develop is the capacity to highlight to students the difference between home language and their use and the training language vocabulary and strustures.
On the basis that learners and their learning strategies will change over time, I'd like to create a link between the importance to know the appropriate training language abroad and the possibility tyo maximixe thei mobility success

Laura Colombo, Italy

2018-09-25 07:03:59 UTC

I teach English in a technical secondary school but in my regional area most students speak local dialect at home and Italian is their second language, so they already experience CLIL when studying other subjects. I think I have some language-awareness in the sense that I understand how difficult it can be for a student to learn an additional foreign language. During the lessons I usually make comparison between the three linguistic systems and ask questions to make students aware of similarities or differences. I believe this course can help me acquire strategies and find better teaching solutions.

David Navas, Spain

2018-09-25 07:05:19 UTC

I am a secondary school teacher. I teach Technology in a bilingual school, although most of the students speak spanish, i am really concerned about being a language-aware. I think that we need to show to our students that we live in a globalized world, and maybe they will be working in a different country in the future. So it is neccesary to show them the importance of learning different languages.

Francesca Palla, ITALY

2018-09-25 07:15:51 UTC

I'm a secondary school Italian teacher, and i had also some experiences in teaching Italian for foreign people in multilingual classrooms. I think that LA in this case could be a very useful competence, in order to manage lessons in different contexts. In my experience, multilingual classrooms give the possibility to create new ways of sharing knowledge.

Vincenzo M. ITALY

2018-09-25 07:50:17 UTC

I am a teacher who is aware of the importance of languages, because knowledge and power. Only by knowing other languages will we be closer to other peoples.

Gianni Lottino

giannilottino — 2018-09-25 08:32:56 UTC

I'm a frenche teacher in secondary school and I think it's very important to improve student's developpement by using CLIL method across the use of different languages. Normally I use French and English as I prefer for a lesson. It depends on the subject and on the purpose of the lesson

Adife DEMİRTAŞ

adifearslanbas — 2018-09-25 09:14:58 UTC

I am a teacher of English in a primary school and I do not think so that I am a language aware teacher. I belive that I have to still need to develop my critical thinking, cultural background of foreign languages I teach...

Elena FP, Italy

2018-09-25 09:48:38 UTC

I teach Literature and History in a Lyceum, and I also a CLIL teacher. Therefore, I am quite aware of the importance of language awareness, even if I still feel the need to improve my practical skiils and put them into use in the classroom.

Martina, Italy

2018-09-25 10:10:36 UTC

I'm a primary school teacher. I'm a language-aware teacher: i believe in the importance of introduce more CLIL experiences in the primary from the beginning in order to improve pupil's language skills that they can use daily.

Kalima Bassey

kalima_bassey — 2018-09-25 10:27:29 UTC

Language awareness is important because we sometimes have new students that come from a country where they speak neither French which is our mother tongue nor English which is the language I teach.

Aritz, Basque Country6

2018-09-25 10:51:16 UTC

I'm a pre-school English teacher. Nowadays children are more aware about the wide range of languages and cultures that we have. Here we teach them mainly in Basque , some Spanish and English. Some children also have different mother languages such as; Arabic , French , Portuguese... In my opinion children should be aware of the importance of speaking languages particularly English in order to communicate with everybody (nowadays).

Roberto, Forlì

2018-09-25 10:56:48 UTC

I teach Electronics in a vocational secondary school and I think Language awareness is a key compentece both for me and for my students. For me because:
the terminology of Electronics is in English (L2);
I teach one module of my subject in English (L2) using CLIL methodology.
For my students Language awareness is a key competence for their future professional or scientific career.

Anna Kaya, Sweden

anna_u_kaya — 2018-09-25 10:58:29 UTC

I teach newly arrived students (from 9 years old to 16 years old) and I really try to be a language aware teacher. Our students speak different languages and it is important to use all their languages as resources in the classroom. I want to learn more about translanguging and how I can teach so our students can learn the Swedish language and continue to develop knowledge in all school subjects at the same time. Even though I try to think that “All languages are languages for learning” (or: “Alla språk är språk för lärande” in Swedish) it is not that easy to practice in the classroom.

Bilingual school

2018-09-25 11:14:06 UTC

I work in a bilingual school and for most of the children the two operating languages is not their mother tongue. Therefore it is important to try to have consistent ways of delivering instructions across the school so children become familiar with the vocabulary in both languages. It also helps to explain the similarities and differences between the languages to clarify common mistakes.

Hello

2018-09-25 11:25:40 UTC

Tina, Messina

2018-09-25 11:26:56 UTC

Hi everybody
I teach in a secondary School in Sicily; in my class there are students that come from different countries; they have different linguistic needs and I think all the teachers should use different languages

I am a teacher of french in a lower secondary school. As i teach in multilingual classes, I decided to attend this course to improve my competences in this field.

2018-09-25 11:43:34 UTC

Rute - Portugal

2018-09-25 11:47:27 UTC

I´m a primary school teacher and i work in a school that uses the CLIL in their classes. I believe this is a very useful complemente for children to have. I think i need to improve my language awareness and i believe this course will help me learn more and discover other ways to help my students.

I am a art teacher in a bilingual school from Bucharest, Romania. It is important to develop this abilities of speaking different languages.

2018-09-25 11:55:41 UTC

Claudia Renda, Italy

2018-09-25 12:12:52 UTC

Hi, I'm Claudia I teach italian language in CPIA like second language. Learning Awareness is important to every body, teachers and students. I work with adults seeing difficult

I am English teacher and think that I am starting to become a LA teacher. I intuitively felt the concept but now I am learning more deeply about it and think of becoming a LA teacher in future. With constant changes I have more children who are bilingual and my LA will help me to help them be more proficient in language learning.

tejasisko01 — 2018-09-25 12:34:33 UTC

Tea Sisko

Mara Zambetti, Italy

2018-09-25 12:57:54 UTC

I'm a science teacher in a secondary school
I'm not a LA teacher, i never thought about comon skill in different languages.
I have students from foreign countries, but usually they are good italian speaker, not worse than italian mother toungue.
Maybe language awareness can help all of us to learn more and open our minds.

2018-09-25 13:22:22 UTC

Rean, Vienna
Although body language makes up an important part of our every day conversation in secondary education using spoken language is the key to gaining information. Working in a multilingual school LA has become part of our every day life and needs to be a top priority in training and further education.

2018-09-25 13:22:46 UTC

Concetta, Sicily

concetta_grasso — 2018-09-25 13:25:54 UTC

Hi everybody,

I teach in a secondary school. Because language is used to learn as well as to communicate I realized that it’s possible for my students to learn both a new language and a new subject at the same time.

As a language teacher, I need to ensure that students understand all the crucial vocabulary and concepts in my lessons. In short, I must give comprehensible inputs.

Moreover, I believe that in a CLIL lesson, language must be approached lexically rather than grammatically and learner styles must be taken into account in task types.

I think I’m a LA teacher, so through this course I would like to improve my competences and develop my interests about it.

2018-09-25 13:26:07 UTC

I teach in a secundary school attended by adult students. I think it’s important especially for this type of users to reach awareness language to increspasse their skills and be able to position themselves again or better on job market

Francesca

2018-09-25 13:39:12 UTC

anne france

2018-09-25 13:46:16 UTC

I am a teacher on a primary school. To my mind,reflecting about awareness language increases pupil's motivation , and help teachers too

Leonardo

l_benedetti_fotografia — 2018-09-25 13:51:09 UTC

I am a teacher in

Leonardo

l_benedetti_fotografia — 2018-09-25 13:51:09 UTC

Leonardo

l_benedetti_fotografia — 2018-09-25 13:51:15 UTC

I am an Art

Leonardo

l_benedetti_fotografia — 2018-09-25 13:51:27 UTC

I am an Art teacher and I think that the

Leonardo

l_benedetti_fotografia — 2018-09-25 13:51:29 UTC

I am an Art teacher and I think that the LA

Leonardo

l_benedetti_fotografia — 2018-09-25 13:51:42 UTC

I am an Art teacher and I think that the LA increase the connection between the students

Gabriella

user_1412192056 — 2018-09-25 14:05:29 UTC

As a teacher, but moreover as a person, I think that we start to think about our language very soon. When for instance we play with our little friends and we choose to change our name or to call something in a different way, building a secret language, we are using our abilitiy to handle language and our consciusness that language is a social agreement.

Grace

2018-09-25 14:07:48 UTC

Far from appearing conceited, as a language teacher, being language-aware is a must quality, a mindset; it is easier when you deal with European languages, more challenging with

Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece

psaridou — 2018-09-25 14:08:30 UTC

I am a teacher in a Minority school in Greece where students are Greek citizens but their mother language is turkish. Usually when endering Primary school they know either few or nothing in Greek. I face too many difficalties since Turkish is a language very different to Greek or English. So, being a language aware teacher in fundamental to

romit kaur India

2018-09-25 14:26:19 UTC

As a teacher i think language is the first source of learning for our students.we must be proficient in different languages so that we can provide our expertise to every student without facing any difficulties in communication.

ro,

2018-09-25 14:26:20 UTC

romit

2018-09-25 14:26:27 UTC

Lucia

luciabucc — 2018-09-25 14:28:41 UTC

Bonjour à tous!
As you see I'm a french teacher. To be language-aware is important to teach but much more to pull down the barriers between languages and people.

Gabriela, Romania

gabi_petrichei — 2018-09-25 14:30:27 UTC

I am an English teacher in a technological high-school in Romania. My students study Romanian, English and French. Some of them already have knowledge of German, Turkish and Russian. I think that being a language aware teacher is compulsory in this situation. I can make them better understand through associating different structures from the languages they knoe.

Ireland

2018-09-25 14:44:38 UTC

Cecelia (Ireland)

2018-09-25 14:44:39 UTC

I teach in a school where a huge amount of the children are bi- and pluri-lingual (to extremely varying levels; from some speaking another language exclusively at hometo others who only know a few words of their parents' languages) . While I try to ensure that this aspect of their identities is celebrated within the formal educational setting, I would love to know more ways to support them in developing their language proficiency (in both their home language and English as the first language of the school).

Valentina (Italy)

2018-09-25 14:52:47 UTC

I'm a "young" teacher in secondary school, in Italy. My audience, right now, is formed by "difficult" pupils. The school where I teach is one of the last reserved schools for special educational needs. I teach humanities, as English speakers say. I always felt at ease when I had to deal with languages. I made classical studies since I was a child and what i realized, later, when I came across one of my most relevant passions at university, I'm talking about informatics, was that understanding the underlying structures and ideological patterns of a language was essential everywhere, even in that particular, so distant, field of knowledge. I see learning as an intricate riddle, as a Rubik's cube (I'm fond about it!) and I think the key to solve it, apprehend it and manage it easily, is laid in that patterns and logical structures of which I was speaking before. We can call them neurological algorithms, in a certain way. And I would like my pupils to be able to understand what I'm talking about, in order to improve, first of all, their key skills qualifications. In my opinion, these skills are the basis for all the successive achievements in life, inside and outside school.
I would like to get some tips during this course for teaching "language-awareness" to them.

Rosa, Italy I am an English teacher in a Primary School. I think it is very important to develop students’ plurilingual competence as soon as possible. I encourage my pupils to “play” with language and to enjoy new sounds and structures through rhyme, storytelling, song and tongue twisters. Nevertheless, I feel inadequate to answer all their language needs and I hope this course will give me some practical examples of I can become more language aware in my everyday teaching.

rosamonfreda2015 — 2018-09-25 15:07:16 UTC

I am a teacher in a Secondary School in Italy and my subjects are Latin and Ancient Greek. Everyday I encourage my students to improve their "language awareness", playing with etymology or helping to develop their learning processes by showing differencies and similarities among languages. Even if they deal with unspoken anymore or "dead" languages, as they say, I think that it is important to notice the shared skills and tools to embracing linguistic stuctures and rules, such as vocabulary and grammar. If they become aware of the importance of this approach, they will be able to master many languages

2018-09-25 15:07:19 UTC

Ernesto, Italy

2018-09-25 15:08:23 UTC

I am a physical education teacher at the secondary school. Language awareness is very important not only for teachers of foreign languages, but also for teachers of any subject.

Hello

2018-09-25 15:26:10 UTC

Christine Italy

2018-09-25 15:26:31 UTC

Hello everyone,
I'm an English teacher in a primary school. I like very much teaching to students aged from 6 to 10, it's a hard work but I think it's extremely important for children to get in touch with a foreign language early in their life in order to open their mind and try to experiment their lingual skills. CLIL has an important role in a new language learning process because it forces students to challenge the

Christine

2018-09-25 15:26:37 UTC

ismail erdoğan, Çanakkale, Turkey

aseka — 2018-09-25 15:30:51 UTC

Well, I feel like a language-aware teacher.I know that is so important I can think so.

Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy

2018-09-25 15:35:04 UTC

I’m a teacher of English Language and Culture at a Liceo in Italy. As foreign language teacher I’m aware of the importance of language as means of communication among the teacher and the students and among the students themselves. All languages share the same communicative functions but students are usually unaware of this basic rule, so the first aim of teachers of any subject should be to make profit of this common ground to develop compenteces, knowledge and abilities in their specific subject-matter.

Matilde

2018-09-25 15:37:23 UTC

In Catalonia we have two official languages, Catalan and Spanish. Our primary pupils also learn a third language, mostly English. And between 30 and 40% of my students speak another language at home. One of our aims is to integrated and value the cultural diversity of our pupils and to develop their language awarness.

Tamara

2018-09-25 15:58:51 UTC

Tamara,

2018-09-25 15:58:53 UTC

I've been teaching foreign languages for thirty years in different kinds of schools to students ranging from low to high levels so I think I am language aware even if I think you have always something to learn from anyone. That's why I'm here, to learn form others' experiences.

Fátima Silva

2018-09-25 16:02:40 UTC

Hello. I am a teacher of English in Seia on the slope of Serra da Estrela.
This year I am teaching English to year 7 and year 9.
At our school, our students also learn French and Spanish.

Rita

2018-09-25 16:32:38 UTC

Hi! I’m Rita from Italy, my pupils are between 11 and 14. I’m a “support teacher” in classes that have students with disabilities, so I often work together with my colleagues. I think that language awareness is very important for everyone because it helps us to become more aware of our language, of single words and of foreign languages.

Cristian Carotenuto

cristian_cris — 2018-09-25 16:36:29 UTC

Hi everybody! I teach English in upper secondary. My school is a Liceo with an International branch so it is quite important for me to develop language awareness as some of my students have mother tongues that are different from Italian. In so doing I try to get into their cultural backgrounds and help them in speaking and reproducing a language which has both BICS and CALP elements required for real language and IGCSE exams

2018-09-25 16:43:05 UTC

Cristian Carotenuto Cristian Carotenuto Hi everybody! I teach English in upper secondary. My school is a Liceo with an International branch so it is quite important for me to develop language awareness as some of my students have mother tongues that are different from Italian. In so doing I try to get into their cultural backgrounds and help them in speaking and reproducing a language which has both BICS and CALP elements required for real language and IGCSE exams Rita Rita Hi, I Fátima Silva Fátima Silva Hello. I am a teacher of English in Seia on the slope of Serra da Estrela. This year I am teaching English to year 7 and year 9. At our school, our students also learn French and Spanish. Tamara Tamara Tamara, Tamara, I've been teaching foreign languages for thirty years in different kinds of schools to students ranging from low to high levels so I think I am language aware even if I think you have always something to learn from anyone. That's why I'm here, to learn form others' experiences. Matilde Matilde In Catalonia we have two official languages, Catalan and Spanish. Our primary pupils also learn a third language, mostly English. And between 30 and 40% of my students speak another language at home. One of our aims is to integrated and value the cultural diversity of our pupils and to develop their language awarness. Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy I’m a teacher of English Language and Culture at a Liceo in Italy. As foreign language teacher I’m aware of the importance of language as means of communication among the teacher and the students and among the students themselves. All languages share the same communicative functions but students are usually unaware of this basic rule, so the first aim of teachers of any subject should be to make profit of this common ground to develop compenteces, knowledge and abilities in their specific subject-matter. ismail erdoğan, Çanakkale, Turkey ismail erdoğan, Çanakkale, Turkey Well, I feel like a language-aware teacher.I know that is so important I can think so. Hello Hello Christine Christine Christine Italy Christine Italy Hello everyone, I'm an English teacher in a primary school. I like very much teaching to students aged from 6 to 10, it's a hard work but I think it's extremely important for children to get in touch with a foreign language early in their life in order to open their mind and try to experiment their lingual skills. CLIL has an important role in a new language learning process because it forces students to challenge the Rosa, Italy I am an English teacher in a Primary School. I think it is very important to develop students’ plurilingual competence as soon as possible. I encourage my pupils to “play” with language and to enjoy new sounds and structures through rhyme, storytelling, song and tongue twisters. Nevertheless, I feel inadequate to answer all their language needs and I hope this course will give me some practical examples of I can become more language aware in my everyday teaching. Rosa, Italy I am an English teacher in a Primary School. I think it is very important to develop students’ plurilingual competence as soon as possible. I encourage my pupils to “play” with language and to enjoy new sounds and structures through rhyme, storytelling, song and tongue twisters. Nevertheless, I feel inadequate to answer all their language needs and I hope this course will give me some practical examples of I can become more language aware in my everyday teaching. Ernesto, Italy Ernesto, Italy I am a physical education teacher at the secondary school. Language awareness is very important not only for teachers of foreign languages, but also for teachers of any subject. I am a teacher in a Secondary School in Italy and my subjects are Latin and Ancient Greek. Everyday I encourage my students to improve their "language awareness", playing with etymology or helping to develop their learning processes by showing differencies and similarities among languages. Even if they deal with unspoken anymore or "dead" languages, as they say, I think that it is important to notice the shared skills and tools to embracing linguistic stuctures and rules, such as vocabulary and grammar. If they become aware of the importance of this approach, they will be able to master many languages I am a teacher in a Secondary School in Italy and my subjects are Latin and Ancient Greek. Everyday I encourage my students to improve their "language awareness", playing with etymology or helping to develop their learning processes by showing differencies and similarities among languages. Even if they deal with unspoken anymore or "dead" languages, as they say, I think that it is important to notice the shared skills and tools to embracing linguistic stuctures and rules, such as vocabulary and grammar. If they become aware of the importance of this approach, they will be able to master many languages Valentina (Italy) Valentina (Italy) I'm a "young" teacher in secondary school, in Italy. My audience, right now, is formed by "difficult" pupils. The school where I teach is one of the last reserved schools for special educational needs. I teach humanities, as English speakers say. I always felt at ease when I had to deal with languages. I made classical studies since I was a child and what i realized, later, when I came across one of my most relevant passions at university, I'm talking about informatics, was that understanding the underlying structures and ideological patterns of a language was essential everywhere, even in that particular, so distant, field of knowledge. I see learning as an intricate riddle, as a Rubik's cube (I'm fond about it!) and I think the key to solve it, apprehend it and manage it easily, is laid in that patterns and logical structures of which I was speaking before. We can call them neurological algorithms, in a certain way. And I would like my pupils to be able to understand what I'm talking about, in order to improve, first of all, their key skills qualifications. In my opinion, these skills are the basis for all the successive achievements in life, inside and outside school. I would like to get some tips during this course for teaching "language-awareness" to them. Ireland Ireland Cecelia (Ireland) Cecelia (Ireland) I teach in a school where a huge amount of the children are bi- and pluri-lingual (to extremely varying levels; from some speaking another language exclusively at hometo others who only know a few words of their parents' languages) . While I try to ensure that this aspect of their identities is celebrated within the formal educational setting, I would love to know more ways to support them in developing their language proficiency (in both their home language and English as the first language of the school). Lucia Lucia Bonjour à tous! As you see I'm a french teacher. To be language-aware is important to teach but much more to pull down the barriers between languages and people. ro, ro, romit romit romit kaur India romit kaur India As a teacher i think language is the first source of learning for our students.we must be proficient in different languages so that we can provide our expertise to every student without facing any difficulties in communication. Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece I am a teacher in a Minority school in Greece where students are Greek citizens but their mother language is turkish. Usually when endering Primary school they know either few or nothing in Greek. I face too many difficalties since Turkish is a language very different to Greek or English. So, being a language aware teacher in fundamental to Gabriela, Romania Gabriela, Romania I am an English teacher in a technological high-school in Romania. My students study Romanian, English and French. Some of them already have knowledge of German, Turkish and Russian. I think that being a language aware teacher is compulsory in this situation. I can make them better understand through associating different structures from the languages they knoe. Grace Grace Far from appearing conceited, as a language teacher, being language-aware is a must quality, a mindset; it is easier when you deal with European languages, more challenging with Gabriella Gabriella As a teacher, but moreover as a person, I think that we start to think about our language very soon. When for instance we play with our little friends and we choose to change our name or to call something in a different way, building a secret language, we are using our abilitiy to handle language and our consciusness that language is a social agreement. Leonardo Leonardo I am a teacher in Leonardo Leonardo Leonardo Leonardo I am an Art Leonardo Leonardo I am an Art teacher and I think that the Leonardo Leonardo I am an Art teacher and I think that the LA Leonardo Leonardo I am an Art teacher and I think that the LA increase the connection between the students Francesca Francesca I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using CLIL activities, because students can become aware of the importance of speaking different languages. I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using CLIL activities, because students can become aware of the importance of speaking different languages. anne france anne france I am a teacher on a primary school. To my mind,reflecting about awareness language increases pupil's motivation , and help teachers too Concetta, Sicily Concetta, Sicily Hi everybody, I teach in a secondary school. Because language is used to learn as well as to communicate I realized that it’s possible for my students to learn both a new language and a new subject at the same time. As a language teacher, I need to ensure that students understand all the crucial vocabulary and concepts in my lessons. In short, I must give comprehensible inputs. Moreover, I believe that in a CLIL lesson, language must be approached lexically rather than grammatically and learner styles must be taken into account in task types. I think I’m a LA teacher, so through this course I would like to improve my competences and develop my interests about it. I teach in a secunda I teach in a secundary school attended by adult students. I think it’s important especially for this type of users to reach awareness language to increspasse their skills and be able to position themselves again or better on job market R R Rean, ViennaAlth Rean, Vienna Although body language makes up an important part of our every day conversation in secondary education using spoken language is the key to gaining information. Working in a multilingual school LA has become part of our every day life and needs to be a top priority in training and further education. Mara Zambetti, Italy Mara Zambetti, Italy I'm a science teacher in a secondary school I'm not a LA teacher, i never thought about comon skill in different languages. I have students from foreign countries, but usually they are good italian speaker, not worse than italian mother toungue. Maybe language awareness can help all of us to learn more and open our minds. I am English teacher and think that I am starting to become a LA teacher. I intuitively felt the concept but now I am learning more deeply about it and think of becoming a LA teacher in future. With constant changes I have more children who are bilingual and my LA will help me to help them be more proficient in language learning. I am English teacher and think that I am starting to become a LA teacher. I intuitively felt the concept but now I am learning more deeply about it and think of becoming a LA teacher in future. With constant changes I have more children who are bilingual and my LA will help me to help them be more proficient in language learning. Tea Sisko Claudia Renda, Italy Claudia Renda, Italy Hi, I'm Claudia I teach italian language in CPIA like second language. Learning Awareness is important to every body, teachers and students. I work with adults seeing difficult I am a art teacher in a bilingual school from Bucharest, Romania. It is important to develop this abilities of speaking different languages. I am a art teacher in a bilingual school from Bucharest, Romania. It is important to develop this abilities of speaking different languages. Rute - Portugal Rute - Portugal I´m a primary school teacher and i work in a school that uses the CLIL in their classes. I believe this is a very useful complemente for children to have. I think i need to improve my language awareness and i believe this course will help me learn more and discover other ways to help my students. I am a teacher of french in a lower secondary school. As i teach in multilingual classes, I decided to attend this course to improve my competences in this field. I am a teacher of french in a lower secondary school. As i teach in multilingual classes, I decided to attend this course to improve my competences in this field. Tina, Messina Tina, Messina Hi everybody I teach in a secondary School in Sicily; in my class there are students that come from different countries; they have different linguistic needs and I think all the teachers should use different languages Hello Hello Bilingual school Bilingual school I work in a bilingual school and for most of the children the two operating languages is not their mother tongue. Therefore it is important to try to have consistent ways of delivering instructions across the school so children become familiar with the vocabulary in both languages. It also helps to explain the similarities and differences between the languages to clarify common mistakes. Roberto, Forlì Roberto, Forlì I teach Electronics in a vocational secondary school and I think Language awareness is a key compentece both for me and for my students. For me because: the terminology of Electronics is in English (L2); I teach one module of my subject in English (L2) using CLIL methodology. For my students Language awareness is a key competence for their future professional or scientific career. Aritz, Basque Country6 Aritz, Basque Country6 I'm a pre-school English teacher. Nowadays children are more aware about the wide range of languages and cultures that we have. Here we teach them mainly in Basque , some Spanish and English. Some children also have different mother languages such as; Arabic , French , Portuguese... In my opinion children should be aware of the importance of speaking languages particularly English in order to communicate with everybody (nowadays). Anna Kaya, Sweden Anna Kaya, Sweden I teach newly arrived students (from 9 years old to 16 years old) and I really try to be a language aware teacher. Our students speak different languages and it is important to use all their languages as resources in the classroom. I want to learn more about translanguging and how I can teach so our students can learn the Swedish language and continue to develop knowledge in all school subjects at the same time. Even though I try to think that “All languages are languages for learning” (or: “Alla språk är språk för lärande” in Swedish) it is not that easy to practice in the classroom. Kalima Bassey Kalima Bassey Language awareness is important because we sometimes have new students that come from a country where they speak neither French which is our mother tongue nor English which is the language I teach. Martina, Italy Martina, Italy I'm a primary school teacher. I'm a language-aware teacher: i believe in the importance of introduce more CLIL experiences in the primary from the beginning in order to improve pupil's language skills that they can use daily. Elena FP, Italy Elena FP, Italy I teach Literature and History in a Lyceum, and I also a CLIL teacher. Therefore, I am quite aware of the importance of language awareness, even if I still feel the need to improve my practical skiils and put them into use in the classroom. Adife DEMİRTAŞ Adife DEMİRTAŞ I am a teacher of English in a primary school and I do not think so that I am a language aware teacher. I belive that I have to still need to develop my critical thinking, cultural background of foreign languages I teach... Monica Boccoli Monica Boccoli I think that nowadays we have to think that we are citizens of the world. Every people have a strong link with other people all over the world through the web too. We have to learn other languages, in particular, English, to develop projects to build peace, respect, knowledge in the world. Gianni Lottino Gianni Lottino I'm a frenche teacher in secondary school and I think it's very important to improve student's developpement by using CLIL method across the use of different languages. Normally I use French and English as I prefer for a lesson. It depends on the subject and on the purpose of the lesson Vincenzo M. ITALY Vincenzo M. ITALY I am a teacher who is aware of the importance of languages, because knowledge and power. Only by knowing other languages will we be closer to other peoples. Francesca Palla, ITALY Francesca Palla, ITALY I'm a secondary school Italian teacher, and i had also some experiences in teaching Italian for foreign people in multilingual classrooms. I think that LA in this case could be a very useful competence, in order to manage lessons in different contexts. In my experience, multilingual classrooms give the possibility to create new ways of sharing knowledge. David Navas, Spain David Navas, Spain I am a secondary school teacher. I teach Technology in a bilingual school, although most of the students speak spanish, i am really concerned about being a language-aware. I think that we need to show to our students that we live in a globalized world, and maybe they will be working in a different country in the future. So it is neccesary to show them the importance of learning different languages. Laura Colombo, Italy Laura Colombo, Italy I teach English in a technical secondary school but in my regional area most students speak local dialect at home and Italian is their second language, so they already experience CLIL when studying other subjects. I think I have some language-awareness in the sense that I understand how difficult it can be for a student to learn an additional foreign language. During the lessons I usually make comparison between the three linguistic systems and ask questions to make students aware of similarities or differences. I believe this course can help me acquire strategies and find better teaching solutions. Training language awareness definition Training language awareness definition I'm a project coordinator, I meet students who want to go abroad. The aspects of language awareness I'd like to develop is the capacity to highlight to students the difference between home language and their use and the training language vocabulary and strustures. On the basis that learners and their learning strategies will change over time, I'd like to create a link between the importance to know the appropriate training language abroad and the possibility tyo maximixe thei mobility success Gabriela Turea from Romania Gabriela Turea from Romania I am a French teacher in a high school. I think that language awareness is very important. This week we are celebrating EDL which has become a tradition activity in our school. Our students are involved in many Erasmus projects and step by step they realized the importance of foreign languages. Because knowing a language offers them new opportunities to make new friends, to communicate, to express their ideas, to discover new things. Rovena Trivanović Rovena Trivanović Croatia I'm a secondary school English teacher. Teaching Englsh at grammar school and School for the hotel and catering industry is quite a challenge because my task is to prepare the students to pass their leaving school exam called Državna matura and to provide them with tools and skills needed for a quality communication in the foreign language. That's way it's very important to be aware of the structure and social characteristics of our mother tongue as well as any other foreign language. The foundation in the sense of aquiring the basic rules is essential for any kind of upgrading Özcan TURAN, Türkiye Özcan TURAN, Türkiye I am English teacher I teach both in high school and primary school even between these schools you have to use different language Chiara Sabatini, Italy Chiara Sabatini, Italy Language awareness is a feature that every teachers should know more about, so in this way it will be easier dealing with all the students and pupils in class. These days we are celebrating the EDL in our school and we are trying to do is to let understand the importance of all the languages and not only of English though English is the most used. In doing so also the students from different countries feel happy to share some expressions of their languages with their mates and are not ashamed of it. Said that I really looking forward to go into this matter as deep as we can. Vanessa, Italy Vanessa, Italy Being an English teacher, I basically always reflect on the Common Underlying Language: according to the grade of my students, I adapt my language when talking with them. Ana B. Portuga Ana B. Portuga As a primary teacher in an International School, I have a multicultural class. I think language awareness is very important if you want to provide good oportunities for building knowledge for all students. Sonia in Ireland Sonia in Ireland I agree that language awareness is very important in all classrooms. In my school context we see huge diversity especially in terms of students' L1. As a language teacher I sometimes feel a conflict between a communicative focus and explicit teaching of grammar/pronunciation etc. Within the conversations around grammar students who speak more than one language bring valuable perspectives (CUP) but often need encouragement to see their own backgrounds as an advantage, some are really shy about this difference in experience in fact. I I I'm Delicia Rojas..from Peru.. I'm Delicia Rojas..from Peru.. Even though I think I'm not a Language awareness teacher because there are still different aspects I need to know such as the challenges it takes to become one, but I try to encourage my students to keep learning a language that can break barriers and open new doors. Marisa Badini Italy Marisa Badini Italy I teach English in Primary school as a second language and I deal with pupils from other Countries, or with a Family language different from Italian. That's why I think It's crucial to learn more and more, in order to give more chances to students and have more effective teaching methods. Language diversity is a great opportunity to open to different worlds and a multilingual class is a rainbow to explore. Paola - Florence, Italy Paola - Florence, Italy Hi everybody! I'm an English teacher at a lower secondary school and I'm not sure to be a language-aware teacher... but I try everyday to give some sort of explanation to my students about how English works comparing it to other foreign languages and cultures through examples. Anyway I think this course is the right one to learn and improve my "awareness". Esmeralda Portugal Esmeralda Portugal I´m very sorry not to be a "language aware teacher" . In my student time we did not go deepen a second language. So I´m here to learn very much with this course Annalisa- Italy Annalisa- Italy I teach Italian language and history at the Secondary School. I would like to ameliorate my language awareness. Sharon Australia Sharon Australia We all need to be aware of the language needs that are necessary in a lesson - the language features and structures should be made evident to students so that they can monitor their learning Rosa, Portugal Rosa, Portugal I think I have to learn a lot to be a "language-aware" teacher but i want it very hard, so I´m here to learn! I know that I will enjoy this Course! Clara - Italy Clara - Italy I teach Italian language, history and geography at a Secondary School. It's important to be a language aware teacher? I think so. Nowdays I think that when the student is learning a subject through an additional language they improve their cognitive ability and prepares them for life beyond school. Moreover teaching and learning through an additional language encourages understanding between cultures. At last, a teacher who is ‘language aware’ understands why students have difficulties and what they can do to support them. Mary Mary I think that language awareness develops logical thinking. It's important to comunicate and interact with all people. Raffaela , Italy Raffaela , Italy I don't know if I really understand the meaning of Language awareness, but I'm sure I'm a good teacher when I can look at the world through my students' world views. FRANCESCA ITALY FRANCESCA ITALY I think that LA is the future of the learning because of the demographic globla changing; many of our students dont' speak italian and I believe that this is an opportunity for innovating the learning process Ana Cristina Martins Ana Cristina Martins Paço de Arcos, Portugal You become aware of the importance of language awareness when a first year student aged 5 asks you how do you know that his name is written on a paper just because he doesn't recognize any letter yet... I am a POrtuguese-English teacher, this year have have the bilingual English-Portuguese teaching programme with the first year in my school. I have english, moldavian, chinese and russian students in the classroom.... Sabrina, ItalyAs Sabrina, Italy As I think I’m not aware enough, I’m following these activities in order to learn how to be. I’m a primary school teacher. Giuseppe A, Italy Giuseppe A, Italy Hello! I'm a Math teacher. I believe that being LA teacher is very important in these days. It happen that sometimes the only way you have to talk with some students from abroad is using english language. I do not feel like a LA teacher, because I don't konw many technical words about the subject I teach in English. Esther, Spain Esther, Spain Hola!! My name is Esther and I am teacher trainer. I think it is so important to be aware of all the students` languages at school, at the playgroung, at home...A great opportunity to develop this awareness would be to celebrate the European Day of Languages in two days in class. It is great to give visibility to all our students´languages and students feel great and selfconfidence when they try to communicate in their own language or in their parents´language. ......it is a very richful experience for all the class. Paola,Italy Paola,Italy I think I'm a teacher who is aware of the language because I believe it is the most important goal, but I have several things to learn. A special class A special class Hi, I'm a tea PaOLa PaOLa T Sara, Portugal Sara, Portugal Hi! My name it´s Sara and I´m a kindergarten teacher. I don´t have, in my class, kids that speaks another language but I think that is important learn and improve a foreign language, than you can talk with all the people and help some kids that may stay in your class. In this moment I feel that I need to improve my skills and language awareness develops knowledge and helps you to comunicate and interact with everyone. Bruna (Italy) Bruna (Italy) Science teacher in a secondary technical school, sometimes I use some English in my lessons. Students don't always appreciate. But they're curious about other languages spoken by their foreign fellows, so I think I could use this language awarness to achieve better results and to make them open their mindas Maria Paola Maria Paola Hi, I teach Science and Maths in a secondary school in Ragusa, a small city in the south of Sicily. I think that it is very important to comunicate with foreign students so, with this course I hope to learn new strategies to teach to my students. In my opinion, it could be usefull to introduce new methods and concepts io order to make my pupils aware of language. I hope my students will increase their knowledges and grow up during my lessons. Daniela, Portugal Daniela, Portugal Hi! My name is Daniela Daniel and I’m a Portuguese teacher. I teach English in a public school in Portugal. My students are aged between 9 and 13. As I teach young people they sometimes feel reluctant when I propose talking activities. Nevertheless, I always teach them that the most important of all is the ability to communicate. Of course, that language awareness is very important but, on my point of view, it’s something that we can only develop if we aren’t afraid of saying something that isn’t completely correct in what grammar is concerned, for example. So, in my opinion, communication is, not only much more important than language awareness, but also a way to achieve it. Liana (Italy) Liana (Italy) Hallo! I teach italian language and literature, history and geography in the secondary school. I think to be a language-aware teacher, so through this course I would like to improve my competences and develop my interests about it. In the school context, beeing a language-aware teacher is a way to pay attention on reciprocal style of communication, starting by the use of each word; moreover is an opportunity to involve pupils in the communicative interactions trying to let themselves aware of the differences and similarities and how language is a precious heritage that includes a wider weltanschauung, emotions etc. etc. All those aspects contribute to the general growth of students as persons and citizens of the world, and improve the process of teaching and learning. Mary Mary I think that language awareness develops logical thinking. It's important to comunicate and interact with all people. Lucia,Crotone Lucia,Crotone I think that teacher awareness is a very important skill to help all students to communicate Giuseppina Tumino - Giuseppina Tumino - Italia I’m a Math and Science teacher in an Secondary School. In my classroom there are foreign students, so I think it is very important ti teacher using CLIL language, because so our students can give importance to learning new language. I home this course will give me new strategies and I can to use English language in different situazione. I find this course very important. Sophia Italy Sophia Italy I teach computer science in a technical high-school. I've read an interesting article from https://www.cambridge-community.org.uk/professional-development/gswla/index.html "Being language aware means you understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. These challenges might arise because a student is learning a subject through an additional language or it might be the first time a student has come across certain vocabulary or structures in their first language. A teacher who is ‘language aware’ understands why students face these difficulties and what they can do to support students." I hope to be a "language aware" teacher when teaching my subject in English (CLIL). As I'm not a Language teacher I do not know if I'm effective in supporting my students. Paola, Italy Paola, Italy I think language awareness is crucial to understand that, when we teach learners in a second language, we have to take into consideration that they have different needs from those taught in their first language. Therefore, "language aware" teachers have to be able to include these needs in their teaching and planning. The second language becomes the medium for delivery of the subject message. If learners are not confident using the second language, they may not achieve very well, they may be demotivated, losing their interest in the subject. It's teachers' responsability to make sure that language isn't a barrier to learning and they have to support students, taking into consideration the difference between conversational language (BICS) and academic language (CALP) and overcome this bridge. I need to deepen my knowledge concerning the benefits of teaching and learning through an additional language. Sinan Koru Sinan Koru No I am not, but will be Debora (Italia) Debora (Italia) Hi everybody, I'm a primary school teacher. I think that linguistic diversity can be perceived as a vari valuable pedagogical resource. In this way, the language awareness becomes a precious tool for more efficient and innovative teaching and learning. Catello de Sinno - Italy Catello de Sinno - Italy I'm an English teacher and as language teachers know, there is much more to a language than simply knowing vocabulary and grammar and reproducing them in either written or oral form. By increasing students’ language awareness, the students are better able to understand, appreciate and use the language. Debora (Italia Debora (Italia Hi everybody! I'm Brunella from Italy Brunella from Italy I'm not sure I'm really language aware in my daily work in class. That's why I want to learn more! Diana from Italy Diana from Italy I feel like a language.aware teacher but I need to improve the skills and tools to benefit from different languages in a classroom Maria Grassi, Italy Maria Grassi, Italy It's difficult to express my feelings about myself as a language aware teacher but I think it's important to be a language aware teacher because only if you can understand and find where is the common underlying proficiency between the different languages you can communicate with your students allowing them to achieve excellent results or language skills so I absolutely agree with Cummins theories... Alena, Czechia Alena, Czechia I´d like to become a more language-aware teacher, to learn how to foster BICS and CALP during L2 teaching. The concept of Common Underlying Proficiency seems very helpful for language learning as well. I´m looking forward to digging deeper into different CLIL activities and learning from others what works in their classes. :-) Alessandra, Pordenone - Italy Alessandra, Pordenone - Italy I teach italian, history and geography in a secondary school. In my school there are students with migratory background. I think is very important to improve my languange awareness in order to o improve the language skills of my students. Irene from Rome Irene from Rome Hi my dear collegues I'm a primary's school teacher. I agree about the importance of LA like a tool to development and improve cognitive and social skills in our students. Othermore the LA could help the students to be more self-confident and open-minded about the social and culture diversities. Silvia DM, Italy Silvia DM, Italy Language awareness is a crucial topic when you teach in multilingual classes like me. I hope to learn how to exploit this variety in a positive wayfor the benefit of my students. Daniela from Parma Daniela from Parma I think that language awareness is an important perspective for an English teacher, who can be considered as the "director" of language teaching in a school. If you know more than a language you have got a powerful weapon in your hands and you must learn how to use it! İSHAK KURT - MANİSA - TURKEY İSHAK KURT - MANİSA - TURKEY I see myself as proficient in foreign language. I can speak 3 languages and I can understand. I think that knowing language is very important in learning and teaching processes. If the teacher does not have the language of the audience to teach, learning will fail. language skills are very important for the development of cultural transmission or transfer ability. Otherwise, the messages will not be transferred with the correct channel. Lucia, from Italy - Puglia Lucia, from Italy - Puglia I'm a teacher from primary school. Language awareness is very important not only for foreign language teachers but also for teachers of any subject, like me. Laura Gianfranceschi Laura Gianfranceschi Hi everybody! I am math and science teacher in a secondary school. My students are not used to be aware to the scientific language. I am confident that the CLIL tecniques would be able to stimulate them to use wright languange and to be aware of the chances that they can have. 📎 Document Elisa, form Belluno (ITALY) Elisa, form Belluno (ITALY) Even though ours is a small community, our classes have their share of students with different backgrounds, such as pupils from South America, Eastern Europe countries, China. The majority of these students has arrived in Italy, if not in Belluno, at a very young age, so they present a good linguistic competence when speaking Italian for everyday communication with their peers. Problems emerge, though, when acquiring new concepts or specific lexicon in different subjects (e.g. geography, geology, history) or when writing longer essays in class. To help them work on their difficulties, I often try to create comparative tables, with the same word in italian, English, Sílvia Sílvia I'm a secondary teacher and this year I'm using CLIL to explain Maths in English. I hope that my students will learn not only Maths but also that we can use English to communicate and learn more about other cultures. Iveta Leinberga, Latvia Iveta Leinberga, Latvia Teaching English is like creating an art work. You always have to be creative and flexible to meet your students` needs and to find the best way to their hearts. English language has become an important communication tool in our everyday life as well as in the business world. English language can help learners to access the greatest treasure - knowledge. Teachers have to be aware of the diversity of English language learners, their cultural background. We all perceive and remember information in different ways so different teaching methods should be applied as well. I consider that interpersonal communication skills are of paramount importance in English language teaching. Language awareness has become an important tool in English language teaching and I hope it will continue its development. Antonino, Italy Antonino, Italy Hello, there! I'm a English Teacher in an Italian school. Language Awareness covers a wide spectrum of definition, but I would like to put it in practice, I mean, Everyone should connect language to our brain function and understand that each word has a meaning not only because it defines something, but also because a brain has thought it Athena, Nafpaktos-Greece Athena, Nafpaktos-Greece I ve been working as astate school teacher of english 16 years now and I feel the need to communicate with my students now more than ever.. A multicultural classroom is a phenomenon i come across more and more and i feel that language awareness can help me understand and be understood in a more effective way. Francesca, Italy Francesca, Italy Hi everybody, I'm a secondary school teacher in the suburbs of Milan. I think that acknowledging and embracing language diversity as an enriching factor in our classes, is a key issue and a big challenge for teachers. I like to think I'm a lifelong student, so I'm not sure I'm as "language aware" as I should, but I try to stimulate my students reflections on how English works in order to find differences and similarities between their L1 and the foreign languages they study at school and make learning a relevant experience for them (someone already mentioned Chomsky, and neurolinguistics is what I'm thinking of when I talk about similarities). I hope to find out useful practices and suggestions to make my effort more effective. Mustafa from Turkey Mustafa from Turkey Hello there. I am a secondary school teacher in Turkey. I have students speaking different languages in my class and I would like to take this course to give a better education to these students. Floriana from Italy Floriana from Italy Hi, I'm an italian teacher in a primary school. I think CLIL activities very important because language is a veicle for learning and pupils can to comunicate in other cultures. Ilaria from Italy Ilaria from Italy Clil is a very smart way of learning by doing, by using languages in different activities and topics. I like it a lot! Carmen from Italy Carmen from Italy I am an Italian primary school teacher and I feel like a language aware teacher. It is important to boost enhanced consciousness and sensitivity to the forms and functions of the language. I live and teach in Italy but I am Romanian mother tongue, so that Italian is a second language for me (L2) and English a foreign language. In all three cases I tried out by myself the meaning of formal language (CALP) and also informal communication (BICS). To be aware of language use you need a good preparation in your mother tongue and also a good knowledge of a foreign language; there are linguistic tools that can be transferred from mother tongue or maybe not and it is important to use also the metalinguistic code. Cinzia Italy Cinzia Italy I teach in a secondary school where 50% are students coming from abroad. I always underline how is important to learn other cultures and words in different languages. Last year we realized some short videos to explain easy words in Italian to our Lithuanian partner and they did the same. My students realized how foreign sounds can be difficult to produce and how we can teach our language. I also always underline the importance of dirrent cultures in our classroom as a richness. Floriana from Italy Floriana from Italy Hi, I'm an italian teacher in a primary school. I think CLIL activities are very important because language is a veicle for learning and pupils to Giuseppina Tumino - Giuseppina Tumino - Italy I’m a Science and Math’s teacher in an Italian Secondary School. In my classroom there are some foreign studente, so i think it is very important to’ teacher using CLIL language, beccasse so our students can give importance to learning new languages. I home this course will give me new strategies and I can ti use English language in different situatios. I find this course very important. Gianfranca Italy Gianfranca Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school. I think language awareness is very important to communicate with people and I really need to attend this course to improve my competences, to teach to my students the importance of a well spoken language. MARIA ITALY MARIA ITALY I think that learning a language means not only to know how a new language works but also and above all to understand another culture . All this in some way change and improve your identity. HartmutSchmidtke,Germany HartmutSchmidtke,Germany I am an English teacher at a secondary school and think that language awareness today is more important than 20 years ago. Importance of linguistic diversity Importance of linguistic diversity I think today that classes are increasingly different in origin, language awareness develops logical thinking. It is important to communicate and interact with all people. Alina, Romania My name is Alina ... I am a mathematics-physics-computer science teacher at the gymnasium ... My students learn from primary classes two foreign languages (English and German) but some know Italian or Greek because they spend their holidays with their parents gone to work abroad. Alina, Romania My name is Alina ... I am a mathematics-physics-computer science teacher at the gymnasium ... My students learn from primary classes two foreign languages (English and German) but some know Italian or Greek because they spend their holidays with their parents gone to work abroad. So I think very much in the knowledge, in the expression so that they can demonstrate what they have learned and realized Cinzia Marrone Italy Cinzia Marrone Italy Hi, I’m a primary English teacher and I believe in importance of languages in school curriculum.I think the youngest we start learning, the better we became aware of languages. Maja Maja Language awareness is one of the most important competencies teacher should have in a school like mine, where there are minority students and more and more foreign students. Teacher without this competence could easily affect on students low academic succsess and it is so unfair to thoose students. Ana, Lisbon PT Ana, Lisbon PT My school is a multicultural one, with more than 30 nationalities present. In my classes I always have many nationalities at the same time and I always try to take that in mind and involve each and every student in the learning activities. I also always try tomake my foreign pupils more confortable by learning some key words in their languages, so I can great them or thank them in a more personal way. I hope to learn a lot from this course so I can improuve my practices! Oleg Oleg I live in the border between Czech and Polnad. Almost everybody here speaks both languages. It is very nice. In my school I have students who finished Czech and Polish primary schools. We teach Czech, but I would like to use both languages. Elena Elena I am an Italian guitar teacher. I do not have foreign students in my classroom but I am very interested in this subject anyway. Sarah, UK Sarah, UK We need as teachers to be language aware so we can plan for and meet the needs of individual children. Roberta Roberta I am Roberta and I'm a primary school teacher. I teach Italian and English. I think it is very important to propose clil activities to children even if they are very young Hi, I'm a primary school teacher. I have been teaching English for several years and I have experienced the effectiveness of the connection between the characteristics of the mother tongue and those of the language to learn: I noticed that my pupils learn more easily if the similarities with their own language are highlighted and such learning also remains long time away. in my practice I try to promote this "game of similarities and differences" as much as possible because I believe that learning a new language also passes through this awareness. Hi, I'm a primary school teacher. I have been teaching English for several years and I have experienced the effectiveness of the connection between the characteristics of the mother tongue and those of the language to learn: I noticed that my pupils learn more easily if the similarities with their own language are highlighted and such learning also remains long time away. in my practice I try to promote this "game of similarities and differences" as much as possible because I believe that learning a new language also passes through this awareness. Serena from Italy Serena from Italy Hi, I'm a support teacher (Special Needs) I think the language awareness is important for all the teachers in the different subjects, we need each of the different languages that students speak in class. Zorica S. Zorica S. I am a teacher in a secendory school. Being aware of the language, means being aware of all the opportunities provided by that language.. I think that language awareness is very needed to better comunicate and use language skills. My opinion is that it is very important to speak different languages. Paola T.,Palestrina(Roma, Italy) Paola T.,Palestrina(Roma, Italy) Hi! I teach Art History in Secondary School. CLIL is a very important approach to teaching the content of curricular subjects through the medium of a non native language. Languages awareness Languages awareness Being a Portuguese English teacher I try to improve my confidence in the learning/teaching process so that I can share my experiences and knowledge with others, students and teachers!! So, language awareness, is a powerful tool to be successful in our professional life!! It allows us to understand and be understood!! Hi there Hi there I am Mariagrazia and I teach science and geography in CLIL and also English as a Foreign language. I have been teaching clil for two years so far and I feel i am becoming more and more language aware: I mean I can discover the limguistic world of my multilingua classes...I think that teaching using different language ... that is for example using code swiching...is really great for children and can be really DEMOCRATIC ...I mean no language is more important than others... Maria A Maria A Maria A. Maria A. Palau,Sardinia Italy I teach Italian and English in a Primary School. I feel even more convinced about the importance of being language aware. I'm very happy to have the opportunity to teach both Italian and English,I hope to improve my knowledge thanks to this course. I'm Laura, a primary teacher from Italy I'm Laura, a primary teacher from Italy Language is a vehicle for learning. It is through language that learners access the content of the lesson and communicate their ideas. So, as teachers, it's our responsibility to make sure that language isn’t a barrier to learning. One way to achieve this is to become more ‘language aware’. Being language aware means that we understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. A teacher who is ‘language aware’ understands why students face some difficulties and what they can do to support them. Mara, Capri Island, Italy Mara, Capri Island, Italy I'm an English teacher at secondary schools. I think it is important to be language-aware also because in the last years we are experiencing the presence of many students coming from different countries with different cultures and languages. Being language-aware means also to respect them and make any possible efforts of speak to their hearts and not only to their heads! Chiara, Italy Chiara, Italy I teach Italian, I try to be a language-aware teacher because languages are beautiful and through the words you can understand people. Gla Gla Gladiola Bondar, Borca - Romania Gladiola Bondar, Borca - Romania Hello! I'm a teacher in a primary school. I think it is very important for my students to become aware of language. My students learn to become aware of the language through active listening, explaining new words, making new statements, telling what they have read ... Language awareness develops logical thinking, imagination, students are more creative. Students cooperate on lessons, interact, learn together. Dzeina, a native Latvian teaching English in Spain Dzeina, a native Latvian teaching English in Spain Language awareness is an extremely important and many times overlooked aspect of learning. There are both stimulating and a little bit stifling practices at the school where I teach, trying to reach bilingualism (Spanish-Englisih) without translanguaging elements such as translation, which in my opinion are vital in becoming language aware. There are non-native students who do not receive the necessary amount of support for acquiring English and or Spanish, and their cultural and linguistic heritage tends to be overlooked unfairly. Having said that: I must admit that multilingual classrooms and multicultural education environment ca both be stimulating and exhausing at the same time. I am looking forward to learning some strategies to make my teaching life a bit easier. Cheers to all my colleagues from all over Europe! Irina Zama, Romania Irina Zama, Romania I'm a teacher of English and as part of my job I teach high school students but also younger ones privately and I have prepared many students for Cambridge exams. Teaching a language to students whose mother tongue you do not know can be really challenging. However, during my 2 months teaching in England to multilingual groups (Italian and Spanish) was really revealing for me. I realised it is much easier to teach students who have your own mother tongue than those who don't. Also, as I have a pretty good command of Italian and Spanish too, and of their culture, it was easier for me to teach them than teaching Chinese students. Knowing the cultural background and being aware of language differences can be helpful in reaching out to the students and getting through to them José Carlos Lopes, Guarda, Portugal José Carlos Lopes, Guarda, Portugal As a Guarda citizen, a little city next to the border of Spain, I grew up watching both Portuguese and Spanish TV. So I'm very confortable with Spanish language. As a 21st century citizen I learned english and french in school. Of course English should be everyone's second language in order to everyone could have a common language and feel like a real European citizen. Nowadays everybody in one way or another, better or worse, can understand basic english. We also know that language learning is much easier in early ages so, as a teacher I can only be language-awared for the languages I really feel prepared for. It´s not easy for a portuguese teacher to be prepared to communicate with a morocan, a sirian or with an iraquian pupil. But I also think that most of everyone can, nowadays, communicate in english. So, if it is the case, I think I can be aware and prepared to have a multilingual classroom with more than one language and teach in this environment. Vicky Archondi, Greece Vicky Archondi, Greece Being an English teacher and a linguist presupposes a certain degree of language awareness. However, for me language awareness goes hand in hand with culture awareness. So, if I wish to understand and learn my students' mother tongues , I should first of all be willing to embrace their cultures' wonders and secrets. Magda Uleia , Romania Magda Uleia , Romania I teach Math and ITC and my first meet with languages it was in the front of computer - at the beginning all was in english... WOW , I have studied only French and Deutch in school. Step by step I have learn English , I have start some projects on eTwinning , Comenius, Erasmus . Without languages all that was impossible! I study everyday in Math , in languages , in sociology. It is very nice , we still remained in contact with our students! Every day I try to prove to my studets that all we learn in school is important for us , for our future . Moreno, Rieti, Italy Moreno, Rieti, Italy I don't feel so much confident about langiage. I am a science field teacher so I have a good practice about the technical language that I use for my purpouse but not so much about the real grammar and technical rules Hi, everyone! Hi, everyone! I Think that I have to improve much more my language awareness in a double way: as a student and consequently as a teacher (we don't stop studying as teachers). It's clear that in a class composed by pupils coming from different countries and speaking at home a language different from the national one it Will be a bit different for the teacher be able to offer the right linguistica support to everyone But I'm here to try to learn it! Maria Grazia Monteleone Italy Hi, everyone. Greetings from Portugal (Eduarda ) Hi, everyone. Greetings from Portugal (Eduarda ) In my own perspective I believe I have still a long way to go as far as being language aware. I do feel the need to learn a lot more about this topic as the school I'm teaching is attended by different ethnies.Therefore I do need to learn a lot. But that's what being a teacher means: constantly learni g According to me, lan According to me, language awareness is a great opportunity for teachers and students. Angela Italy Angela Italy My pre-school class is multiethnic and I think LA is essential. Small children can learn easily. . . Hanife, Turkey Hanife, Turkey I am an English teacher in a secondary school. LA is very important that we explore during the process. I want to give my pupils experiences that expand their creativity, social skills and cultural scope. It is an exciting experince to explore another culture, language and a way of living. It is also important for pupils to learn through authentic communication. So, laening a language requires a language awareness during the learning process. Ayşe,Turkey Ayşe,Turkey I am a teacher in pre-primary and primary school. I think the students aware of everything and they can speak new language easily. I applied Clil in my school and my students addict this method so it can apply easily. Angela Italy Angela Italy At the moment I'm a pre-school teacher but I thought English also in primary and secondary school. Dimitra P., Greece Dimitra P., Greece Hello, everyone! What I think on the matter is that the world is constantly changing and, of course, the new era is more demanding both on learners and on teachers. Nowadays, we recognize that all European citizens should have sufficient knowledge of at least three European languages, which means that, above all, they need to conquer the capacity of language learning in an early stage of life (at least according to Chomsky). To understand the “deeper” structures of our mother tongue is crucial and it doesn’t happen by accident. To some people it doesn’t happen at all during their life –time. Bilinguals and multilinguals have a benefit over this, as Cummins and other scholars have suggested. Even more the linguistic landscape of Europe is bound to change, due to migration. Language awareness will be highly important, as language is a vehicle for culture. I believe that a teacher who is aware of linguistic deep structures, will be more equipped to help diverse pupils to enculturate to new ethnic/cultural backgrounds. Brigida Calise Brigida Calise I'm a secondary school teacher. My classes are multiethnic. In my opionion LA is essential and I absolutely agree with the definition of LA as the explicit knowledge about language, and conscious perception and sensitivity in language learning, language teaching and language use. I feel like a language-aware teacher and I try my best to improve. Having students who speak different languages is a powerful tool to enhance, exchange and motivate language learning. the students... I like ac the students... I like active participation in classes and to know their opinions about topics we learn together. According to me, teaching means "always learning" and the first questions to my students are: "Do you like foreign languages? did you go abroad? would you like to live abroad in the future?" Moreover, learning a foreign language means learning another culture and have another point of view. For sure, I need to improve teaching strategies (everyone has always to improve something) but I think to be "language-aware" :) Caterina fantini Caterina fantini Italy I'm a primary school teacher. I have a multiethnic class and the diversity of languages is very important to enrich the work. Students open their minds and know other cultures. Maria Jastrząb Maria Jastrząb I'm early primary education teacher. Learning and teaching languages is a great opportunity to expand your horizons. It's amazingly valuable both for teachers and students. Lu, English teacher (Italy) Lu, English teacher (Italy) I'm an English teacher in a Secondary School. I've worked with students coming from different countries and I think that LA is essential to motivate the students... I like active participation in classes and to know their opinions about topics we learn together. According to me, teaching means "always learning" and the first questions to my students are: "Do you like foreign languages? did you go abroad? would you like to live abroad in the future?" Moreover, learning a foreign language means learning another culture and have another point of view. For sure, I need to improve teaching strategies (everyone has always to improve something) but I think to be "language-aware" :) FILOMENA BIANCO, ITALY FILOMENA BIANCO, ITALY I feel I'm a language-aware teacher, being a teacher of English in a middle secondary school, where - students speak their local dialect and Italian - students learn two foreign languages, English and French or Spanish - the number of foreign students is increasing more and more İMRAN ARSLAN TÜRKİYE. İlkokulda çalışıyorum. Ülkemizde etnik kökeni farklı bir çok insan yaşamakta, farklı diller ve kültürler bizleri ayrıştırmıyor. Bütünleştiriyor. Farklı dillerde müzikler, sanatsal etkinlikler kültürümüzü zenginleştiriyor. Bir lisan bir insan iki lisan iki insan. Ben de kendi dilimde düşüncelerimi sizinle paylaştım. İMRAN ARSLAN TÜRKİYE. İlkokulda çalışıyorum. Ülkemizde etnik kökeni farklı bir çok insan yaşamakta, farklı diller ve kültürler bizleri ayrıştırmıyor. Bütünleştiriyor. Farklı dillerde müzikler, sanatsal etkinlikler kültürümüzü zenginleştiriyor. Bir lisan bir insan iki lisan iki insan. Ben de kendi dilimde düşüncelerimi sizinle paylaştım. I am soon to become I am soon to become a teacher and I think that learning different languages is very beneficial for incorporating new methods and concepts for our students.we can provide alternatives to students and make them understand well. Giuseppina V. Italy Giuseppina V. Italy Honestly I don’t know whether I feel like a language-aware teacher or not. I believe it is important being aware of the differences between Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) whether you teach in your mother tongue or teach in the target language (i.e. CLIL) or teach Italian as a second language to foreign students. Hi I am JESÚS from Spain and I teach English in infant level , what you can learn from them is amazing seing them speak in a new language , how they improve their motivation to do it right, so to teach a child a new way to create communication is something that can not be compare with nothing else in the world. Hi I am JESÚS from Spain and I teach English in infant level , what you can learn from them is amazing seing them speak in a new language , how they improve their motivation to do it right, so to teach a child a new way to create communication is something that can not be compare with nothing else in the world. Michela, I Michela, I Michela, I Michela, I Michela, I'm an Michela, I'm an Hande Türker Hande Türker Hi, I am an English teacher in a Secondary School in Turkey. I think i am a LA teacher with not many specifications:)To be honest, I am aware but i don't have many ideas to apply this knowledge into the lessons.I've been working for five years but i haven't had students with different languages but i want to improve myself in creating new athmospheres in the classroom. I want to prepare myself for the future because i may have students like that. And if not, i think i have to be more aware what is going on in the world and what the new aspects towards education are. In order to improve the students' language skills, teachers have to know about their way of thinking and understanding the world around. So, i wish i will learn new ways of applying effective methods in language classrooms. Anna, Italy. I'm a teacher for special need. Improving the language awareness helps to communicate with people with different culture. This can help to reach the acceptance of diversity and the best coexistence of different cultures. It manages to approach different cultures and try to understand them and know them not to be afraid of them. Anna, Italy. I'm a teacher for special need. Improving the language awareness helps to communicate with people with different culture. This can help to reach the acceptance of diversity and the best coexistence of different cultures. It manages to approach different cultures and try to understand them and know them not to be afraid of them. Michela, I'm an English teacher and I thin Michela, I'm an English teacher and I thin Michela, I'm an English teacher and Ith Michela, I'm an English teacher and Ith Michela, I'm an English teacher and Michela, I'm an English teacher and Michela, I'm an English teacher and I think Michela, I'm an English teacher and I think Michela, I'm an English teacher and I think being la Michela, I'm an English teacher and I think being la Ela, Poland Ela, Poland First of all I would like to say that bilingual education is more and more popular in my country. I am history, literature teacher and English as well. So, I can teach bilingual education. I try to do it time to time, for example when we disscusing about book which is written by English writer. Polish lessons have English language component. It is ocassion to improve language awareness. Secondly, I have travelled a lot, so my travel experience is very useful for teaching. I have got some ainteresting educational materials, e.g. leaflets, maps, short films. I use it in different way but generally it helps to gain students to cultural and linguistics competence. Mihaela, romania Mihaela, romania SPEAKING IN MORE LANGUAGES FOLLOWS MORE TO HIS SUFLET AND THAT YOU ARE ENOUGH TO EXPRESS AND MAKE YOUR FORCE Lucy (Italy Lucy (Italy I'm a geografy teacher in a secondary school Giedre (Lithuania) Giedre (Lithuania) I'm an English teacher. I teach from 2nd to 8th grades students in progymnasium. I think it's important to make my students aware of communicating languages. And also I think I will learn more teaching methodology in this course. Maria Goreti Silva Rocha (Portugal) Maria Goreti Silva Rocha (Portugal) I teach physics and chemistry. In my opinion is very important that students become aware of the importance of speaking english and other languages to understand the global world in which they live. I use CLIL to teach the disciplinary contents, the learning of the English language is assumed transversally. I hope to learn more about CLIL during this course. Michela, chemistry teacher from Italy. Michela, chemistry teacher from Italy. On my opinion, teaching in languages different from our mothertongue is very important for both teachers and students. Students with a good L. A. have a lot of benefits in term of, for example, development of brain skills or acquisition of new ways of perceiving the world. Francesca Italy Francesca Italy I'm an english Teacher, The best way to make students understand that speaking a lanuage is an ability, the aim of which is communicate, there's no way out ,the best thing to do is to do a lot of practice and to have a reason why you want to learn to speak that Language , you mustn't be obliged to study it!!! , Linda Linda I teach in a secondary school. I would like to improve communicating more effectively with students who do not speak the main language of instruction G G Giuseppina (Italy) Giuseppina (Italy) I'm a teacher of Scienze and Math in a secondary school and living in Ragusa (Sicily). I think that is very important nowadays to be a language-aware teacher because of our world is every time more international and every school because a mix of cultures of all over world R R I am a teacher in the primary school Hi everybody! I'm Alessia and I teach English as a second language in Primary School. I live and work in North Italy. In my classes I have to cope with language and cultural diversity quite often since lots of my students have a different linguistic background. I strongly support the idea that being aware of those difference and, above all, bieng able to "use" them to improve my lessons is vital to improve my teaching practice. Hi everybody! I'm Alessia and I teach English as a second language in Primary School. I live and work in North Italy. In my classes I have to cope with language and cultural diversity quite often since lots of my students have a different linguistic background. I strongly support the idea that being aware of those difference and, above all, bieng able to "use" them to improve my lessons is vital to improve my teaching practice. hi! I am Carmen, a teacher of English from Romania. I think I am a teacher aware of language, but still have a great desire and grit to learn more in order to assist my students better. hi! I am Carmen, a teacher of English from Romania. I think I am a teacher aware of language, but still have a great desire and grit to learn more in order to assist my students better. Sylwia, Poland Sylwia, Poland Hello everyone I'm the teacher of English in primary and secondary school. The LA gives conscious in language learning, motivates to use language in diffrent situations. Hi everybody, Hi everybody, I'm Alessia and I teach English as a second language in Primary School. I live and work in North Italy. In my lessons I have to cope with students of different backgrounds and different languages: quite often Italian is their second language. I hope this course will help me to "use" cultural and language diversity to improve my lessons I'm a psychology teacher and I try to give many importance to my students's language as in italian as in a foreign language. It's importan use language like a way to go inner the mind and the earth of students. I'm a psychology teacher and I try to give many importance to my students's language as in italian as in a foreign language. It's importan use language like a way to go inner the mind and the earth of students. I am a primary school teacher. It is my second year at this level (I was a Romanian teacher). I am a primary school teacher. It is my second year at this level (I was a Romanian teacher). I teach Italian as L I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Teaching helps me to reflect on my mother tongue as well as on the other foreign languages. Learning a different language develops critical thinking, increases appreciation for a different culture and language and at the same time it develops the ability of better communnication and understanding. Costina, Heidelberg Daisy (Italy Daisy (Italy I'm a language teacher in a secondary school, I'd like to reflect on the usage of the language I'm currently teaching (English and German); I think this course will improve my teaching skills, making me more aware of language diversity, with a change of perspective and a deeper insight in this topic. Marco (Italy) Marco (Italy) I'm a Math and Science teacher at an Italian middle school (10-13 years). I have always been aware of the importance to know foreign languages, especially English, to be able to interact with everybody in the world, thus improving the own culture and open mindedness. However, after becoming a teacher, I realized even more how important is the knowledge of foreign languages to set up a school environment which is really inclusive. Now, I would need some technical hints more on how CLIL methodology could be introduced in a course to be effective. Marco Vitiello, Ascoli Piceno I'm a teacher in the Primary School and I'm deeply persuaded about the importance to teach foreign languages in this School and to develope Language Awareness. There are a lot of reasons we could say to support this affirmation, and these reasons touch surely several areas of the Human and Social Being. I'd like to write here only three words: self-consciousness, power and freedom. I'm a teacher in the Primary School and I'm deeply persuaded about the importance to teach foreign languages in this School and to develope Language Awareness. There are a lot of reasons we could say to support this affirmation, and these reasons touch surely several areas of the Human and Social Being. I'd like to write here only three words: self-consciousness, power and freedom. Diana Nicoletta (Italy, Sicily) Nicoletta (Italy, Sicily) I'm a Tecnology's teacher in a secondary school. I think it is very important to teach using the activities of the Clil to speak in a universal way with the students Cinzia (Sicily) I'm a Math and Science's teacher in a secondary school of Ragusa, i think it's important teaching using CLIL language to communicate with all my students specially with foreign students Cinzia (Sicily) I'm a Math and Science's teacher in a secondary school of Ragusa, i think it's important teaching using CLIL language to communicate with all my students specially with foreign students G G Gökhan (Turkey) Gökhan (Turkey) I'm a teacher in a secondary school. I think CLIL activities are very important. Because so our students can give importance to learning new languages. Ciro ( Italy) Ciro ( Italy) Hi everyone. I'm Ciro, 35 yo, from South of italy and living in Milan as a teacher of Italian literature and History. To me different languages are the medium. the link to the wolrld because, by them, it's possible to aim a different view on our life improving who we are and devoloping who will be. Speaking in different language make us more confidential to the others, more open-minded and theese can also help us teacher to better interconnect with a worlwide school pupils. I'm a teacher in a primar I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using CLIL activities, because students can become aware of the importance of speaking different languages. I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using CLIL activities, because students can become aware of the importance of speaking different languages. İMRAN ARSLAN TÜRKİYE. İlkokulda çalışıyorum. Ülkemizde etnik kökeni farklı bir çok insan yaşamakta, farklı diller ve kültürler bizleri ayrıştırmıyor. Bütünleştiriyor. Farklı dillerde müzikler, sanatsal etkinlikler kültürümüzü zenginleştiriyor. Bir lisan bir insan iki lisan iki insan. Ben de kendi dilimde düşüncelerimi sizinle paylaştım. İMRAN ARSLAN TÜRKİYE. İlkokulda çalışıyorum. Ülkemizde etnik kökeni farklı bir çok insan yaşamakta, farklı diller ve kültürler bizleri ayrıştırmıyor. Bütünleştiriyor. Farklı dillerde müzikler, sanatsal etkinlikler kültürümüzü zenginleştiriyor. Bir lisan bir insan iki lisan iki insan. Ben de kendi dilimde düşüncelerimi sizinle paylaştım. Lucy (Italy Lucy (Italy I'm a geografy teacher in a secondary school think is important teaching C.l.i.l. think is important teaching C.l.i.l. Ipermahia Christodoulou , Greece Ipermahia Christodoulou , Greece I'm a primary school English Language teacher. In my opinion is that we should care of the L1 the language that a child speaks and hears as mother tongue, the L Roberta (Italy) Roberta (Italy) I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy learning a new language Eda Harp Zübari,Turkey Eda Harp Zübari,Turkey I am an English Language Teacher.I work in the southeastern of Turkey.The city has a lot of refugees from Syria.That is why,some of my students are Syrians.Some of them knows Turkish and English but most of them dont know either.We have difficulty in communication.The course may help me how to deal with this situation.Besides,almost all of my students doesnt Elín Iceland Elín Iceland I am taking my first steps in teaching foreign kids Icelandic. I like to know what to do for each ages. When start grammar and witch way. Caterina from Italy Caterina from Italy I'm a teacher in a primary school, in my class there're pupils from Marocco, Pakistan, Romania, Poland, and also one pupil with an Italian father an a Brazilian mother. I hope to improve my language aware during this course, to dive in the languages' ocean and discover the common underlying proficiency. Veronica, teacher -to Veronica, teacher -to I’m still not a teacher, but I’m studying to become a teacher in primary school. I think that is very important nowadays to be a language-aware teacher because of our world is every time more international and every school becomes a mix of cultures of all over the world. Furthermore, languages are every day more important for the professional and private life of everyone. Like a teacher, I think it could be great to let the children discover things about languages in the world, and let the children that know more than one language express themselves about their mother tongue. This will also permit us, like teaches, to understand more them like person, to understand the way they think, to help them doing connections to learning the language of the city where they live now, and to introduce them and the other children to an open-mind thinking. I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Learning another language improves the critical thinking, encourage cultural appreciation and increase I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Learning another language improves the critical thinking, encourage cultural appreciation and increase experience from other cou experience from other countries, with longer history of multilingual schools. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. Alina, Romania Roberta from Italy Roberta from Italy I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students, and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy studying a new langua R R Gina , Italy Gina , Italy I'm a teacher in secondary high school and unfortunately many of my students have problems with their mother tongue language and therefore English is difficult to face in the classroom. So LA is mandatory to learn news ways to get them motivated. I w I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. Federica Tagliafichi Federica Tagliafichi I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I teach English in a I teach English in a Primary School and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides,language diversity allows facing with people of different countries and cultures, so that our pupils can estend their knowledge. Stefania Stefania I'm a teacher in a primary school. I believe that it is our responsability to make the second language learning more enjoyable, trying to eliminate the difficulties and understand what we can do to support students. I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures Martina Martina Martina from Italy Martina from Italy Different languages, different cultures, different people! Our job is amazing. We have the possibility to spread the knowledge and the love for the human being. MariaM - Gaeta, Italy MariaM - Gaeta, Italy I’m a primary school teacher and I do believe that language is a vehicle for learning. This year I'm teaching English in a fifth class and I will experience some CLIL activities, so that my pupils can understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. he classroom. I want my s he classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Carolina From Italy Carolina From Italy I'm a teacher ,I teach English in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Lia from Italy Lia from Italy I am an English teacher at Primary School. I am aware of language development. I think that working in very multicultural contexts helped me a lot. Patrícia, Porto, Portugal Patrícia, Porto, Portugal I teach Portuguese and English and I work with young learners and teenagers too. I try to be very active with my students when it comes to language awareness... When we are working together we know that language is culture, language is identity, communication... And I try to share my passion with them, so they too will want to learn different languages, travel, meet new people... Lia MOlini from ITaly Lia MOlini from ITaly Pizzi Mariagle Pizzi Mariagle Italy I'm a French teacher in a secondary school and as we a have students with special needs or ADHD students I find very difficult planning lessons for a so wide diversity of students. But languages are too much important in these 10 last years and it's important to find to involve everybody. inci Süzer, Turkey inci Süzer, Turkey whenever my students ask "why do we learn English, does English kids learn Turkish aswell?" it makes me think learning a second language mustn't be an obligation. I have to sth to make it more charming , I need to show them that a new language is a door of a new world, new people , new cultures. inci inci Anna Rita Anna Rita I teach English in a secondary school, I find it difficult teaching English as a second Language and even giving my lessons in English because we have so different kids with special needs. Sometimes I see my best student feeling bored and I would like to give them more in order to increase their Language awareness. Carla Machado, Portugal Carla Machado, Portugal I teach English in a secondary school. And yes! I feel like a language-aware teacher. I have several students from other countries and sometimes I think the American melting pot has become a global one. So, I am truly prepared to welcome my students with different Hellos :) and I know they love it. They feel home! Lia, Italy Lia, Italy I teach English in a secondary school. I do have students with a very low background, who barely speak Italian, besides foreign students and last but not least students with special needs. Having said that, I need to be a language aware teacher and constanty switching from one code to another in order to involve all my students. Lucia, Ita Lucia, Ita I teach Maths and Physics in a secondary school. I believe it is fundamental for students whose first language is different from the language of schooling because they will be supported by subject teachers who have a much better understanding of the role that language plays in knowledge building. I am a teacher in pr I am a teacher in primary school. I am teaching language subject in the classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Being aware of the diversity of languages learners helps a teacher to recognize the differences in behavior and attitude of learners and how to pattern his teaching. Tiziana Varone, Ita Tiziana Varone, Ita I'm a ¨language-aware¨ teacher: I believe in the benefits coming from learning a second tongue, first of all the freedom to travel and work all over the world; I also think that living language diversity in classroom is an added value of the school experience, because it compells students and teachers to really do the effort to communicate in the language of the other and to daily practice a foreign language I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. Varvara Gashenko, Latvia Varvara Gashenko, Latvia i teach English and German in a secondary professional school and i need this course because i would like to use different CLIL activities at my lessons in order to make them more interested in English I I Odarka Kukite, Latvia Odarka Kukite, Latvia i teach English and French in a secondary professional school and i need this course in order to help my foreign students to improve their language awareness. Alessandra Amideo, Alessandra Amideo, ITALY I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian language and literature. Yes, I feel like a teacher who is attentive to the language. I think it is important to be a teacher who knows the language because it gives you the awareness of mastering it and consequently transmitting it to the students. . Roberta Di Pietro, Italy Roberta Di Pietro, Italy I teach in the primary school and to some extent, I think to be a language aware teacher. Luckily, I studied languages and I've been abroad learning in other languages. This influence my way of approachingbilingual students. However I know I can still improve and I hope this course will give me further information and help me finding more effective strategies to teach to my students and help them improve their learning methods and their language awareness, those who are bilingual and those who aren't, to help them become better citizens. Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) I teach English in a primary school with a small number of pupils from foreign countries. I believe it is fundamental to implement linguistic awareness for the purposes of integration and inclusion, important educational values to be transmitted. Rosy (Italy) Rosy (Italy) I am a teacher in a secondary school in Catania. I work with guys who have special needs and in my classroom there are only two foreign students. I Think that language awareness is important for every teacher and usefull to help pupils whose first language is different from the school's one. It is important not only to teach a foreign language but also to make pupils aware of the cultures of other school mates. School is not only a place where everyone acquires knowledge, but also a place where one learns to live together and builds common values . So that, everyone can find our place in classroom. Federica (Italy) Federica (Italy) I feel like a language-curious teacher rather than being aware of language diversity in my classroom. I still need to readapt my teaching to capture more effectively those who are bilingual and also to make Italian mother tongue students aware of their peers' difficulties Mariateresa De Mattia Mariateresa De Mattia I'm a teacher in an Italian school at Foggia.In my classroom i work with pupils who have special needs and so I think that language awareness is very important to comunicate and help them in their difficulties Alex_PT Alex_PT I am an EFL teacher in Portugal in a rural area, and even though we haven’t had many immigrants, the truth is that in the last – let’s say – two years, we’ve welcome some eastern Europeans, but basically, Brazilians. These students are all having extra classes in Portuguese in order to be able to comply and in what concerns my subject English as a Foreign Language, they are also problematic. I believe I am a language-aware teacher, conscious that my sts’ proficiency varies according to the context and subject – in Portuguese or English! Nevertheless, I have no doubts that if I was native-born or had more opportunities for local professional development, I would certainly acquire not only a more accurate language sensitivity but also have a better, improved perception of sociocultural aspects. Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy I'm a teacher in an Italian Primary School. In my school there are children who came from different parts of world, especially from China. There are also many pupils whit special needs. In my opinion, the language awareness is very important to help these students in their difficulties. I'ld like to improuve my knowledge for my job and for the benefit of children. Claudia Mazzone -Italy Claudia Mazzone -Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school in Naples. I work with guys who have particular needs. In the class where I teach there are students who come from different parts of the world. I'd like to improve my linguistic skills, because I think that the language awareness is a fundamental way to communicate with foreigners students, to check out their abilities and difficulties, in the way to make them feel part of the class, with benefits for their schoolmates and teachers. Rita Xuereb, Malta Rita Xuereb, Malta I am a Kindergarten Educator in a Maltese Public School, and our school population consists mainly of immigrants from all over the world. It's very difficult to communicate in Maltese so we use English as our common language. It’s also very interesting to observe how these 3-5 year olds communicate with each other in spite of their multicultural and language diversity. I would like to learn how to take advantage of this reality for the benefit of the children. RITA LUISO -ITALY RITA LUISO -ITALY I am a teacher in a technical school where there are a lot of immigrant and I try to make them aware of the importance of knowledge of a language to communicate to the other. In my classroom there different students with special needs and I'd like to improve my knowledge to help these students Daniela Galea, Malta Daniela Galea, Malta I am a primary teacher at Marsascala Primary School in Malta. My school is one of the most multicultural schools on our island that's why I think it is very important to make students aware of the importance of communicating through language. Martina Tettamanzi, Italy Martina Tettamanzi, Italy I am a teacher in an Italian Secondary School. I'm willing to improve my knowledge about communication and language awaress in order to help foreing students to learn a new language. I am a teacher in se I am a teacher in secondary school to students with special needs and I think it’s very important and useful to explore the communicative resources in the classroo I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. That is why I think it is important to get to your pupils/students and make them aware of the importance of communicate through language, any language. Daniela Roversi Daniela Roversi I teach German in an Italian Secondary school. I think, it's very useful, that the teacher remembers, how he/she learnt a foreign language, when he/she was at school. Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta I am a primary teacher in the tiny island of Gozo. Our mother tongue is Maltese and our second language is English. We start teaching both languages to our students from a very young age. Maltese, our mother language is part of our identity and culture, however English helps us communicate with the rest of the world. Filomena Montella, Italy Filomena Montella, Italy I am a teacher of Italian language and literature and history in secondary school. I strongly believe in the value of language as an important element of communication, that is, "putting in common" a message and having the right feedback HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY I am a teacher in a country where immigrants live intensively. I have a lot of information about this. I think I need more information about this. I find this course very important. more_vert LORETTA LORETTA I AM A SCIENCE TEACHER IN A SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ITALY. I THINK THAT LANGUAGE CAN HELP ME TO COMMUNICATE WITH STUDENTS THAT DO NOT SPEAK THE MAIN LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION Maren, Germany Maren, Germany I am a soon to be teacher in high school. Many Students are facing difficulties in their first language and hence in learning new languages. Being language aware of ALL languages surrounding children is super important in order to provide every student with the help that is necessary to succeed in language acquisition. Gabriella,Italy Gabriella,Italy I teach maths and science in a junior high school in Naples. In my opinion the students that use CLIL activities will have more opportunities in the future for their jobs, but olso for their life because they will become really European Citizen Rosamaria Teodorani Rosamaria Teodorani I'm a primary school teacher in Rome. I believe in the importance of Learning languages as a language is the key to get in a culture, explore it, experience diversity and open your mind. To learn languages it makes you undertand that all cultures have devoloped similar logical structures to communicate, that there are lots of similarities. It is a an exciting experience. Julia, Poland Julia, Poland I am a trainer for teachers working with children with immigration experience (usually from Ukraine). Our systhem of education is just on the beginning with that subject. I think that it is very important to use experience from other countries, with longer history of multilingual schools. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. Alina, Romania Roberta from Italy Roberta from Italy I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students, and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy studying a new langua R R Gina , Italy Gina , Italy I'm a teacher in secondary high school and unfortunately many of my students have problems with their mother tongue language and therefore English is difficult to face in the classroom. So LA is mandatory to learn news ways to get them motivated. I w I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. Federica Tagliafichi Federica Tagliafichi I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I teach English in a I teach English in a Primary School and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides,language diversity allows facing with people of different countries and cultures, so that our pupils can estend their knowledge. Stefania Stefania I'm a teacher in a primary school. I believe that it is our responsability to make the second language learning more enjoyable, trying to eliminate the difficulties and understand what we can do to support students. I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures Martina Martina Martina from Italy Martina from Italy Different languages, different cultures, different people! Our job is amazing. We have the possibility to spread the knowledge and the love for the human being. MariaM - Gaeta, Italy MariaM - Gaeta, Italy I’m a primary school teacher and I do believe that language is a vehicle for learning. This year I'm teaching English in a fifth class and I will experience some CLIL activities, so that my pupils can understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. he classroom. I want my s he classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Carolina From Italy Carolina From Italy I'm a teacher ,I teach English in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Lia from Italy Lia from Italy I am an English teacher at Primary School. I am aware of language development. I think that working in very multicultural contexts helped me a lot. Patrícia, Porto, Portugal Patrícia, Porto, Portugal I teach Portuguese and English and I work with young learners and teenagers too. I try to be very active with my students when it comes to language awareness... When we are working together we know that language is culture, language is identity, communication... And I try to share my passion with them, so they too will want to learn different languages, travel, meet new people... Lia MOlini from ITaly Lia MOlini from ITaly Pizzi Mariagle Pizzi Mariagle Italy I'm a French teacher in a secondary school and as we a have students with special needs or ADHD students I find very difficult planning lessons for a so wide diversity of students. But languages are too much important in these 10 last years and it's important to find to involve everybody. inci Süzer, Turkey inci Süzer, Turkey whenever my students ask "why do we learn English, does English kids learn Turkish aswell?" it makes me think learning a second language mustn't be an obligation. I have to sth to make it more charming , I need to show them that a new language is a door of a new world, new people , new cultures. inci inci Anna Rita Anna Rita I teach English in a secondary school, I find it difficult teaching English as a second Language and even giving my lessons in English because we have so different kids with special needs. Sometimes I see my best student feeling bored and I would like to give them more in order to increase their Language awareness. Carla Machado, Portugal Carla Machado, Portugal I teach English in a secondary school. And yes! I feel like a language-aware teacher. I have several students from other countries and sometimes I think the American melting pot has become a global one. So, I am truly prepared to welcome my students with different Hellos :) and I know they love it. They feel home! Lia, Italy Lia, Italy I teach English in a secondary school. I do have students with a very low background, who barely speak Italian, besides foreign students and last but not least students with special needs. Having said that, I need to be a language aware teacher and constanty switching from one code to another in order to involve all my students. Lucia, Ita Lucia, Ita I teach Maths and Physics in a secondary school. I believe it is fundamental for students whose first language is different from the language of schooling because they will be supported by subject teachers who have a much better understanding of the role that language plays in knowledge building. I am a teacher in pr I am a teacher in primary school. I am teaching language subject in the classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Being aware of the diversity of languages learners helps a teacher to recognize the differences in behavior and attitude of learners and how to pattern his teaching. Tiziana Varone, Ita Tiziana Varone, Ita I'm a ¨language-aware¨ teacher: I believe in the benefits coming from learning a second tongue, first of all the freedom to travel and work all over the world; I also think that living language diversity in classroom is an added value of the school experience, because it compells students and teachers to really do the effort to communicate in the language of the other and to daily practice a foreign language I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. Varvara Gashenko, Latvia Varvara Gashenko, Latvia i teach English and German in a secondary professional school and i need this course because i would like to use different CLIL activities at my lessons in order to make them more interested in English I I Odarka Kukite, Latvia Odarka Kukite, Latvia i teach English and French in a secondary professional school and i need this course in order to help my foreign students to improve their language awareness. Alessandra Amideo, Alessandra Amideo, ITALY I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian language and literature. Yes, I feel like a teacher who is attentive to the language. I think it is important to be a teacher who knows the language because it gives you the awareness of mastering it and consequently transmitting it to the students. . Roberta Di Pietro, Italy Roberta Di Pietro, Italy I teach in the primary school and to some extent, I think to be a language aware teacher. Luckily, I studied languages and I've been abroad learning in other languages. This influence my way of approachingbilingual students. However I know I can still improve and I hope this course will give me further information and help me finding more effective strategies to teach to my students and help them improve their learning methods and their language awareness, those who are bilingual and those who aren't, to help them become better citizens. Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) I teach English in a primary school with a small number of pupils from foreign countries. I believe it is fundamental to implement linguistic awareness for the purposes of integration and inclusion, important educational values to be transmitted. Rosy (Italy) Rosy (Italy) I am a teacher in a secondary school in Catania. I work with guys who have special needs and in my classroom there are only two foreign students. I Think that language awareness is important for every teacher and usefull to help pupils whose first language is different from the school's one. It is important not only to teach a foreign language but also to make pupils aware of the cultures of other school mates. School is not only a place where everyone acquires knowledge, but also a place where one learns to live together and builds common values . So that, everyone can find our place in classroom. Federica (Italy) Federica (Italy) I feel like a language-curious teacher rather than being aware of language diversity in my classroom. I still need to readapt my teaching to capture more effectively those who are bilingual and also to make Italian mother tongue students aware of their peers' difficulties Mariateresa De Mattia Mariateresa De Mattia I'm a teacher in an Italian school at Foggia.In my classroom i work with pupils who have special needs and so I think that language awareness is very important to comunicate and help them in their difficulties Alex_PT Alex_PT I am an EFL teacher in Portugal in a rural area, and even though we haven’t had many immigrants, the truth is that in the last – let’s say – two years, we’ve welcome some eastern Europeans, but basically, Brazilians. These students are all having extra classes in Portuguese in order to be able to comply and in what concerns my subject English as a Foreign Language, they are also problematic. I believe I am a language-aware teacher, conscious that my sts’ proficiency varies according to the context and subject – in Portuguese or English! Nevertheless, I have no doubts that if I was native-born or had more opportunities for local professional development, I would certainly acquire not only a more accurate language sensitivity but also have a better, improved perception of sociocultural aspects. Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy I'm a teacher in an Italian Primary School. In my school there are children who came from different parts of world, especially from China. There are also many pupils whit special needs. In my opinion, the language awareness is very important to help these students in their difficulties. I'ld like to improuve my knowledge for my job and for the benefit of children. Claudia Mazzone -Italy Claudia Mazzone -Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school in Naples. I work with guys who have particular needs. In the class where I teach there are students who come from different parts of the world. I'd like to improve my linguistic skills, because I think that the language awareness is a fundamental way to communicate with foreigners students, to check out their abilities and difficulties, in the way to make them feel part of the class, with benefits for their schoolmates and teachers. Rita Xuereb, Malta Rita Xuereb, Malta I am a Kindergarten Educator in a Maltese Public School, and our school population consists mainly of immigrants from all over the world. It's very difficult to communicate in Maltese so we use English as our common language. It’s also very interesting to observe how these 3-5 year olds communicate with each other in spite of their multicultural and language diversity. I would like to learn how to take advantage of this reality for the benefit of the children. RITA LUISO -ITALY RITA LUISO -ITALY I am a teacher in a technical school where there are a lot of immigrant and I try to make them aware of the importance of knowledge of a language to communicate to the other. In my classroom there different students with special needs and I'd like to improve my knowledge to help these students Daniela Galea, Malta Daniela Galea, Malta I am a primary teacher at Marsascala Primary School in Malta. My school is one of the most multicultural schools on our island that's why I think it is very important to make students aware of the importance of communicating through language. Martina Tettamanzi, Italy Martina Tettamanzi, Italy I am a teacher in an Italian Secondary School. I'm willing to improve my knowledge about communication and language awaress in order to help foreing students to learn a new language. I am a teacher in se I am a teacher in secondary school to students with special needs and I think it’s very important and useful to explore the communicative resources in the classroo I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. That is why I think it is important to get to your pupils/students and make them aware of the importance of communicate through language, any language. Daniela Roversi Daniela Roversi I teach German in an Italian Secondary school. I think, it's very useful, that the teacher remembers, how he/she learnt a foreign language, when he/she was at school. Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta I am a primary teacher in the tiny island of Gozo. Our mother tongue is Maltese and our second language is English. We start teaching both languages to our students from a very young age. Maltese, our mother language is part of our identity and culture, however English helps us communicate with the rest of the world. Filomena Montella, Italy Filomena Montella, Italy I am a teacher of Italian language and literature and history in secondary school. I strongly believe in the value of language as an important element of communication, that is, "putting in common" a message and having the right feedback HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY I am a teacher in a country where immigrants live intensively. I have a lot of information about this. I think I need more information about this. I find this course very important. think is important teaching C.l.i.l. think is important teaching C.l.i.l. M. Rosa Italy Ipermahia Christodoulou , Greece Ipermahia Christodoulou , Greece I'm a primary school English Language teacher. In my opinion is that we should care of the L1 the language that a child speaks and hears as mother tongue and mainly the L2 the language that a child with a different mother tongue is taught at school.L3 the foreign language which is compulsory to learn and at least the second foreign language which the child can choose to learn.When the child learns good the L2, there will not any problems to learn whatever language he/she prefers to. Roberta (Italy) Roberta (Italy) I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy learning a new language Eda Harp Zübari,Turkey Eda Harp Zübari,Turkey I am an English Language Teacher.I work in the southeastern of Turkey.The city has a lot of refugees from Syria.That is why,some of my students are Syrians.Some of them knows Turkish and English but most of them dont know either.We have difficulty in communication.The course may help me how to deal with this situation.Besides,most of my students dont believe in the beneficiency in learning a foreign language.I tell them about why we learn another language but some of them still insist on not to learn.They dont have an opportunity to communicate in English.Anyway,I hope this course will be useful both for me and my students.Thanks. Elín Iceland Elín Iceland I am taking my first steps in teaching foreign kids Icelandic. I like to know what to do for each ages. When start grammar and witch way. Caterina from Italy Caterina from Italy I'm a teacher in a primary school, in my class there're pupils from Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Poland, and also one pupil with an Italian father an a Brazilian mother. I hope to improve my language aware during this course, to dive in the languages' ocean and discover the common underlying proficiency. Veronica, teacher -to Veronica, teacher -to I’m still not a teacher, but I’m studying to become a teacher in primary school. I think that is very important nowadays to be a language-aware teacher because of our world is every time more international and every school becomes a mix of cultures of all over the world. Furthermore, languages are every day more important for the professional and private life of everyone. Like a teacher, I think it could be great to let the children discover things about languages in the world, and let the children that know more than one language express themselves about their mother tongue. This will also permit us, like teaches, to understand more them like person, to understand the way they think, to help them doing connections to learning the language of the city where they live now, and to introduce them and the other children to an open-mind thinking. I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Learning another language improves the critical thinking, encourage cultural appreciation and interpersonal connection, as well as the possibility to advance research. Language diversity helps not only to develop interpersonal and intercultural abilities , but also helps people to be I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Learning another language improves the critical thinking, encourage cultural appreciation and interpersonal connection, as well as the possibility to advance research. Language diversity helps not only to develop interpersonal and intercultural abilities , but also helps people to be experience from other cou experience from other countries, with longer history of multilingual schools. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. Alina, Romania Roberta from Italy Roberta from Italy I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students, and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy studying a new langua R R Gina , Italy Gina , Italy I'm a teacher in secondary high school and unfortunately many of my students have problems with their mother tongue language and therefore English is difficult to face in the classroom. So LA is mandatory to learn news ways to get them motivated. I w I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. Federica Tagliafichi Federica Tagliafichi I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I teach English in a I teach English in a Primary School and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides,language diversity allows facing with people of different countries and cultures, so that our pupils can estend their knowledge. Stefania Stefania I'm a teacher in a primary school. I believe that it is our responsability to make the second language learning more enjoyable, trying to eliminate the difficulties and understand what we can do to support students. I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures Martina Martina Martina from Italy Martina from Italy Different languages, different cultures, different people! Our job is amazing. We have the possibility to spread the knowledge and the love for the human being. MariaM - Gaeta, Italy MariaM - Gaeta, Italy I’m a primary school teacher and I do believe that language is a vehicle for learning. This year I'm teaching English in a fifth class and I will experience some CLIL activities, so that my pupils can understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. he classroom. I want my s he classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Carolina From Italy Carolina From Italy I'm a teacher ,I teach English in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Lia from Italy Lia from Italy I am an English teacher at Primary School. I am aware of language development. I think that working in very multicultural contexts helped me a lot. Patrícia, Porto, Portugal Patrícia, Porto, Portugal I teach Portuguese and English and I work with young learners and teenagers too. I try to be very active with my students when it comes to language awareness... When we are working together we know that language is culture, language is identity, communication... And I try to share my passion with them, so they too will want to learn different languages, travel, meet new people... Lia MOlini from ITaly Lia MOlini from ITaly Pizzi Mariagle Pizzi Mariagle Italy I'm a French teacher in a secondary school and as we a have students with special needs or ADHD students I find very difficult planning lessons for a so wide diversity of students. But languages are too much important in these 10 last years and it's important to find to involve everybody. inci Süzer, Turkey inci Süzer, Turkey whenever my students ask "why do we learn English, does English kids learn Turkish aswell?" it makes me think learning a second language mustn't be an obligation. I have to sth to make it more charming , I need to show them that a new language is a door of a new world, new people , new cultures. inci inci Anna Rita Anna Rita I teach English in a secondary school, I find it difficult teaching English as a second Language and even giving my lessons in English because we have so different kids with special needs. Sometimes I see my best student feeling bored and I would like to give them more in order to increase their Language awareness. Carla Machado, Portugal Carla Machado, Portugal I teach English in a secondary school. And yes! I feel like a language-aware teacher. I have several students from other countries and sometimes I think the American melting pot has become a global one. So, I am truly prepared to welcome my students with different Hellos :) and I know they love it. They feel home! Lia, Italy Lia, Italy I teach English in a secondary school. I do have students with a very low background, who barely speak Italian, besides foreign students and last but not least students with special needs. Having said that, I need to be a language aware teacher and constanty switching from one code to another in order to involve all my students. Lucia, Ita Lucia, Ita I teach Maths and Physics in a secondary school. I believe it is fundamental for students whose first language is different from the language of schooling because they will be supported by subject teachers who have a much better understanding of the role that language plays in knowledge building. I am a teacher in pr I am a teacher in primary school. I am teaching language subject in the classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Being aware of the diversity of languages learners helps a teacher to recognize the differences in behavior and attitude of learners and how to pattern his teaching. Tiziana Varone, Ita Tiziana Varone, Ita I'm a ¨language-aware¨ teacher: I believe in the benefits coming from learning a second tongue, first of all the freedom to travel and work all over the world; I also think that living language diversity in classroom is an added value of the school experience, because it compells students and teachers to really do the effort to communicate in the language of the other and to daily practice a foreign language I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. Varvara Gashenko, Latvia Varvara Gashenko, Latvia i teach English and German in a secondary professional school and i need this course because i would like to use different CLIL activities at my lessons in order to make them more interested in English I I Odarka Kukite, Latvia Odarka Kukite, Latvia i teach English and French in a secondary professional school and i need this course in order to help my foreign students to improve their language awareness. Alessandra Amideo, Alessandra Amideo, ITALY I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian language and literature. Yes, I feel like a teacher who is attentive to the language. I think it is important to be a teacher who knows the language because it gives you the awareness of mastering it and consequently transmitting it to the students. . Roberta Di Pietro, Italy Roberta Di Pietro, Italy I teach in the primary school and to some extent, I think to be a language aware teacher. Luckily, I studied languages and I've been abroad learning in other languages. This influence my way of approachingbilingual students. However I know I can still improve and I hope this course will give me further information and help me finding more effective strategies to teach to my students and help them improve their learning methods and their language awareness, those who are bilingual and those who aren't, to help them become better citizens. Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) I teach English in a primary school with a small number of pupils from foreign countries. I believe it is fundamental to implement linguistic awareness for the purposes of integration and inclusion, important educational values to be transmitted. Rosy (Italy) Rosy (Italy) I am a teacher in a secondary school in Catania. I work with guys who have special needs and in my classroom there are only two foreign students. I Think that language awareness is important for every teacher and usefull to help pupils whose first language is different from the school's one. It is important not only to teach a foreign language but also to make pupils aware of the cultures of other school mates. School is not only a place where everyone acquires knowledge, but also a place where one learns to live together and builds common values . So that, everyone can find our place in classroom. Federica (Italy) Federica (Italy) I feel like a language-curious teacher rather than being aware of language diversity in my classroom. I still need to readapt my teaching to capture more effectively those who are bilingual and also to make Italian mother tongue students aware of their peers' difficulties Mariateresa De Mattia Mariateresa De Mattia I'm a teacher in an Italian school at Foggia.In my classroom i work with pupils who have special needs and so I think that language awareness is very important to comunicate and help them in their difficulties Alex_PT Alex_PT I am an EFL teacher in Portugal in a rural area, and even though we haven’t had many immigrants, the truth is that in the last – let’s say – two years, we’ve welcome some eastern Europeans, but basically, Brazilians. These students are all having extra classes in Portuguese in order to be able to comply and in what concerns my subject English as a Foreign Language, they are also problematic. I believe I am a language-aware teacher, conscious that my sts’ proficiency varies according to the context and subject – in Portuguese or English! Nevertheless, I have no doubts that if I was native-born or had more opportunities for local professional development, I would certainly acquire not only a more accurate language sensitivity but also have a better, improved perception of sociocultural aspects. Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy I'm a teacher in an Italian Primary School. In my school there are children who came from different parts of world, especially from China. There are also many pupils whit special needs. In my opinion, the language awareness is very important to help these students in their difficulties. I'ld like to improuve my knowledge for my job and for the benefit of children. Claudia Mazzone -Italy Claudia Mazzone -Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school in Naples. I work with guys who have particular needs. In the class where I teach there are students who come from different parts of the world. I'd like to improve my linguistic skills, because I think that the language awareness is a fundamental way to communicate with foreigners students, to check out their abilities and difficulties, in the way to make them feel part of the class, with benefits for their schoolmates and teachers. Rita Xuereb, Malta Rita Xuereb, Malta I am a Kindergarten Educator in a Maltese Public School, and our school population consists mainly of immigrants from all over the world. It's very difficult to communicate in Maltese so we use English as our common language. It’s also very interesting to observe how these 3-5 year olds communicate with each other in spite of their multicultural and language diversity. I would like to learn how to take advantage of this reality for the benefit of the children. RITA LUISO -ITALY RITA LUISO -ITALY I am a teacher in a technical school where there are a lot of immigrant and I try to make them aware of the importance of knowledge of a language to communicate to the other. In my classroom there different students with special needs and I'd like to improve my knowledge to help these students Daniela Galea, Malta Daniela Galea, Malta I am a primary teacher at Marsascala Primary School in Malta. My school is one of the most multicultural schools on our island that's why I think it is very important to make students aware of the importance of communicating through language. Martina Tettamanzi, Italy Martina Tettamanzi, Italy I am a teacher in an Italian Secondary School. I'm willing to improve my knowledge about communication and language awaress in order to help foreing students to learn a new language. I am a teacher in se I am a teacher in secondary school to students with special needs and I think it’s very important and useful to explore the communicative resources in the classroo I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. That is why I think it is important to get to your pupils/students and make them aware of the importance of communicate through language, any language. Daniela Roversi Daniela Roversi I teach German in an Italian Secondary school. I think, it's very useful, that the teacher remembers, how he/she learnt a foreign language, when he/she was at school. Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta I am a primary teacher in the tiny island of Gozo. Our mother tongue is Maltese and our second language is English. We start teaching both languages to our students from a very young age. Maltese, our mother language is part of our identity and culture, however English helps us communicate with the rest of the world. Filomena Montella, Italy Filomena Montella, Italy I am a teacher of Italian language and literature and history in secondary school. I strongly believe in the value of language as an important element of communication, that is, "putting in common" a message and having the right feedback HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY I am a teacher in a country where immigrants live intensively. I have a lot of information about this. I think I need more information about this. I find this course very important. LORETTA LORETTA I AM A SCIENCE TEACHER IN A SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ITALY. I THINK THAT LANGUAGE CAN HELP ME TO COMMUNICATE WITH STUDENTS THAT DO NOT SPEAK THE MAIN LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION Maren, Germany Maren, Germany I am a soon to be teacher in high school. Many Students are facing difficulties in their first language and hence in learning new languages. Being language aware of ALL languages surrounding children is super important in order to provide every student with the help that is necessary to succeed in language acquisition. Gabriella,Italy Gabriella,Italy I teach maths and science in a junior high school in Naples. In my opinion the students that use CLIL activities will have more opportunities in the future for their jobs, but olso for their life because they will become really European Citizen Rosamaria Teodorani Rosamaria Teodorani I'm a primary school teacher in Rome. I believe in the importance of Learning languages as a language is the key to get in a culture, explore it, experience diversity and open your mind. To learn languages it makes you undertand that all cultures have devoloped similar logical structures to communicate, that there are lots of similarities. It is a an exciting experience. Julia, Poland Julia, Poland I am a trainer for teachers working with children with immigration experience (usually from Ukraine). Our systhem of education is just on the beginning with that subject. I think that it is very important to use experience from other countries, with longer history of multilingual schools. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. Alina, Romania Roberta from Italy Roberta from Italy I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students, and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy studying a new langua R R Gina , Italy Gina , Italy I'm a teacher in secondary high school and unfortunately many of my students have problems with their mother tongue language and therefore English is difficult to face in the classroom. So LA is mandatory to learn news ways to get them motivated. I w I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. Federica Tagliafichi Federica Tagliafichi I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I teach English in a I teach English in a Primary School and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides,language diversity allows facing with people of different countries and cultures, so that our pupils can estend their knowledge. Stefania Stefania I'm a teacher in a primary school. I believe that it is our responsability to make the second language learning more enjoyable, trying to eliminate the difficulties and understand what we can do to support students. I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures Martina Martina Martina from Italy Martina from Italy Different languages, different cultures, different people! Our job is amazing. We have the possibility to spread the knowledge and the love for the human being. MariaM - Gaeta, Italy MariaM - Gaeta, Italy I’m a primary school teacher and I do believe that language is a vehicle for learning. This year I'm teaching English in a fifth class and I will experience some CLIL activities, so that my pupils can understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. he classroom. I want my s he classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Carolina From Italy Carolina From Italy I'm a teacher ,I teach English in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Lia from Italy Lia from Italy I am an English teacher at Primary School. I am aware of language development. I think that working in very multicultural contexts helped me a lot. Patrícia, Porto, Portugal Patrícia, Porto, Portugal I teach Portuguese and English and I work with young learners and teenagers too. I try to be very active with my students when it comes to language awareness... When we are working together we know that language is culture, language is identity, communication... And I try to share my passion with them, so they too will want to learn different languages, travel, meet new people... Lia MOlini from ITaly Lia MOlini from ITaly Pizzi Mariagle Pizzi Mariagle Italy I'm a French teacher in a secondary school and as we a have students with special needs or ADHD students I find very difficult planning lessons for a so wide diversity of students. But languages are too much important in these 10 last years and it's important to find to involve everybody. inci Süzer, Turkey inci Süzer, Turkey whenever my students ask "why do we learn English, does English kids learn Turkish aswell?" it makes me think learning a second language mustn't be an obligation. I have to sth to make it more charming , I need to show them that a new language is a door of a new world, new people , new cultures. inci inci Anna Rita Anna Rita I teach English in a secondary school, I find it difficult teaching English as a second Language and even giving my lessons in English because we have so different kids with special needs. Sometimes I see my best student feeling bored and I would like to give them more in order to increase their Language awareness. Carla Machado, Portugal Carla Machado, Portugal I teach English in a secondary school. And yes! I feel like a language-aware teacher. I have several students from other countries and sometimes I think the American melting pot has become a global one. So, I am truly prepared to welcome my students with different Hellos :) and I know they love it. They feel home! Lia, Italy Lia, Italy I teach English in a secondary school. I do have students with a very low background, who barely speak Italian, besides foreign students and last but not least students with special needs. Having said that, I need to be a language aware teacher and constanty switching from one code to another in order to involve all my students. Lucia, Ita Lucia, Ita I teach Maths and Physics in a secondary school. I believe it is fundamental for students whose first language is different from the language of schooling because they will be supported by subject teachers who have a much better understanding of the role that language plays in knowledge building. I am a teacher in pr I am a teacher in primary school. I am teaching language subject in the classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Being aware of the diversity of languages learners helps a teacher to recognize the differences in behavior and attitude of learners and how to pattern his teaching. Tiziana Varone, Ita Tiziana Varone, Ita I'm a ¨language-aware¨ teacher: I believe in the benefits coming from learning a second tongue, first of all the freedom to travel and work all over the world; I also think that living language diversity in classroom is an added value of the school experience, because it compells students and teachers to really do the effort to communicate in the language of the other and to daily practice a foreign language I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. Varvara Gashenko, Latvia Varvara Gashenko, Latvia i teach English and German in a secondary professional school and i need this course because i would like to use different CLIL activities at my lessons in order to make them more interested in English I I Odarka Kukite, Latvia Odarka Kukite, Latvia i teach English and French in a secondary professional school and i need this course in order to help my foreign students to improve their language awareness. Alessandra Amideo, Alessandra Amideo, ITALY I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian language and literature. Yes, I feel like a teacher who is attentive to the language. I think it is important to be a teacher who knows the language because it gives you the awareness of mastering it and consequently transmitting it to the students. . Roberta Di Pietro, Italy Roberta Di Pietro, Italy I teach in the primary school and to some extent, I think to be a language aware teacher. Luckily, I studied languages and I've been abroad learning in other languages. This influence my way of approachingbilingual students. However I know I can still improve and I hope this course will give me further information and help me finding more effective strategies to teach to my students and help them improve their learning methods and their language awareness, those who are bilingual and those who aren't, to help them become better citizens. Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) I teach English in a primary school with a small number of pupils from foreign countries. I believe it is fundamental to implement linguistic awareness for the purposes of integration and inclusion, important educational values to be transmitted. Rosy (Italy) Rosy (Italy) I am a teacher in a secondary school in Catania. I work with guys who have special needs and in my classroom there are only two foreign students. I Think that language awareness is important for every teacher and usefull to help pupils whose first language is different from the school's one. It is important not only to teach a foreign language but also to make pupils aware of the cultures of other school mates. School is not only a place where everyone acquires knowledge, but also a place where one learns to live together and builds common values . So that, everyone can find our place in classroom. Federica (Italy) Federica (Italy) I feel like a language-curious teacher rather than being aware of language diversity in my classroom. I still need to readapt my teaching to capture more effectively those who are bilingual and also to make Italian mother tongue students aware of their peers' difficulties Mariateresa De Mattia Mariateresa De Mattia I'm a teacher in an Italian school at Foggia.In my classroom i work with pupils who have special needs and so I think that language awareness is very important to comunicate and help them in their difficulties Alex_PT Alex_PT I am an EFL teacher in Portugal in a rural area, and even though we haven’t had many immigrants, the truth is that in the last – let’s say – two years, we’ve welcomed some eastern Europeans, but basically, Brazilians. These students are all having extra classes in Portuguese in order to be able to comply and in what concerns my subject English as a Foreign Language, they are also problematic. I believe I am a language-aware teacher, conscious that my sts’ proficiency varies according to the context and subject – in Portuguese or English! Nevertheless, I have no doubts that if I was native-born or had more opportunities for local professional development, I would certainly acquire not only a more accurate language sensitivity but also have a better, improved perception of sociocultural aspects. Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy I'm a teacher in an Italian Primary School. In my school there are children who came from different parts of world, especially from China. There are also many pupils whit special needs. In my opinion, the language awareness is very important to help these students in their difficulties. I'ld like to improuve my knowledge for my job and for the benefit of children. Claudia Mazzone -Italy Claudia Mazzone -Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school in Naples. I work with guys who have particular needs. In the class where I teach there are students who come from different parts of the world. I'd like to improve my linguistic skills, because I think that the language awareness is a fundamental way to communicate with foreigners students, to check out their abilities and difficulties, in the way to make them feel part of the class, with benefits for their schoolmates and teachers. Rita Xuereb, Malta Rita Xuereb, Malta I am a Kindergarten Educator in a Maltese Public School, and our school population consists mainly of immigrants from all over the world. It's very difficult to communicate in Maltese so we use English as our common language. It’s also very interesting to observe how these 3-5 year olds communicate with each other in spite of their multicultural and language diversity. I would like to learn how to take advantage of this reality for the benefit of the children. RITA LUISO -ITALY RITA LUISO -ITALY I am a teacher in a technical school where there are a lot of immigrant and I try to make them aware of the importance of knowledge of a language to communicate to the other. In my classroom there different students with special needs and I'd like to improve my knowledge to help these students Daniela Galea, Malta Daniela Galea, Malta I am a primary teacher at Marsascala Primary School in Malta. My school is one of the most multicultural schools on our island that's why I think it is very important to make students aware of the importance of communicating through language. Martina Tettamanzi, Italy Martina Tettamanzi, Italy I am a teacher in an Italian Secondary School. I'm willing to improve my knowledge about communication and language awaress in order to help foreing students to learn a new language. I am a teacher in se I am a teacher in secondary school to students with special needs and I think it’s very important and useful to explore the communicative resources in the classroo I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. That is why I think it is important to get to your pupils/students and make them aware of the importance of communicate through language, any language. Daniela Roversi Daniela Roversi I teach German in an Italian Secondary school. I think, it's very useful, that the teacher remembers, how he/she learnt a foreign language, when he/she was at school. Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta I am a primary teacher in the tiny island of Gozo. Our mother tongue is Maltese and our second language is English. We start teaching both languages to our students from a very young age. Maltese, our mother language is part of our identity and culture, however English helps us communicate with the rest of the world. Filomena Montella, Italy Filomena Montella, Italy I am a teacher of Italian language and literature and history in secondary school. I strongly believe in the value of language as an important element of communication, that is, "putting in common" a message and having the right feedback HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY I am a teacher in a country where immigrants live intensively. I have a lot of information about this. I think I need more information about this. I find this course very important.

Tiziana

2018-09-25 17:00:37 UTC

Most of my life has been focussed on language teaching and thus language awareness is crucial. I love reflecting on languages, idioms and I like my students to become aware of the importance of language awareness.

Giuseppe, Italy

profgiuseppevullo — 2018-09-25 17:00:39 UTC

I am a Math and Science teacher in a small town middle school located near Milan, Italy. I think that being language-aware is an essential quality to have a better way of perceiving and thinking the world. I'm a very careful with pupils of different backgrounds and cultures; they’re an enriching factors in our classes, not an issue for the future of the our school community.

Hi my name is Michaela and I am an RECE in a school in Canada I always though language awareness and diversity is important for the teachers and students since we are a bilingual country, and have many children of different backgrounds here and children in our school just new to this country overall!

2018-09-25 17:07:46 UTC

Maria Rosaria

2018-09-25 17:44:50 UTC

Hi, I’m a teacher of English in Primary School. I think that is very important stimolate pupils to develop an ability to think critically about language and to create an inspirational environment in which pupils are encouraged to use of language as a medium in order to learn a foreign language

Lena, Germany

2018-09-25 17:48:31 UTC

I think I am a language-aware teacher in theory, which means I know the basic concepts, but I often forget that not all of my students have the same mother tongue that I have...and that sometimes leads to problems.

Pirjo, Finland

2018-09-25 18:14:34 UTC

Hello, I'm a teacher of English in primary school. In Finland we have a long tradition of starting learning English at the age of nine, on the third class. In two years time the start of first foreign language (mostly English) throughout the country will move to the first school year, the age of seven. My school belongs to a group of pilot schools which have started language studies for first classers already. It is noteworthy that children of that age themselves are already language aware.

Ioana, Romania

ioana633 — 2018-09-25 18:18:46 UTC

I am a primary school teacher and I think it is important for my students to know about language awareness.

We are witnessing a social, economic and political process that goes beyond the borders of the country, we actively participate in the transformation of the world, so we have to be active in terms of general linguistic dynamics, we need to understand the phenomenon of historical necessity leading to good knowledge of international languages.

Ali Coşkun,Turkey

alikacoskun — 2018-09-25 18:25:26 UTC

I am a primary school teacher language awareness is very important for students who speak other languages.

Sirpa, Finland

2018-09-25 18:25:30 UTC

I'm a history and politics teacher and I've been teaching bilingually over 20 years both in middle and high school. Language awareness has been important to me since we've had students from over 40 different countries and many of them don't have either Finnish or English as their mother tongue. I've noticed that it is important for the students to be able to do both oral and written assignments in both languages since most of them continue to universities either here in Finland or abroad.

PALMA FROM SPAIN

palmagarciahn — 2018-09-25 18:27:37 UTC

I am a Pre Primary teacher.Pre primary science are the first step to work language awarareness.If the teacher is not prepared in this field; the students will have great problems to make a successful communication

Federica (Italian in Australia)

2018-09-25 18:28:22 UTC

I teach in a public primary school with a bilingual program that strives to follow CLIL methodology. Since the school is surrounded by embassies, we have a multicultural community and therefore linguistic and cultural awareness are key features of our pedagogy. I feel that this linguistically and culturally diverse environment requires teachers to have a high degree of Language Awareness - as well as cultural awareness and sensitivity - for two main reasons: Firstly, to be able to connect with students, make them feel valued and foster a sense of belonging to their learning community. Secondly, to understand their background and prior knowledge and build on them. In fact, it can be of great advantage for teachers to know about different linguistic systems and point out differences and similarities, in order to help students make links between their native language/s and the foreign language/s they are learning. In general, I think to be a language aware teacher but I would like to know more about how to best support and value children who come from different Countries (especially non-European Countries) and enrich our school with a great variety of linguistic and cultural/intercultural experiences.

Petra Kokeza, Croatia

2018-09-25 18:32:27 UTC

Hello, I am a teacher of geography and history in secondary school. I think that language awareness and diversity is very important. I would like to know more about this topic, so I am here now, and I am ready for learning

Emilia, Poland

2018-09-25 18:51:59 UTC

I am a teacher in primary school and I believe language awareness is essential in my job. This is why I want to learn more about it during this course.

Marta Ropio, Portugal

2018-09-25 18:55:15 UTC

I'm a portuguese language and literature teacher in a Secondary School (in Portugal). This year, I'm teaching portuguese literature in Mohamed V University in Rabat. In Portugal i used to have multicultural students, but here it is a bigger challenge because I'm dealing with students which native language is the arabic and a little bit of french and english. To know about language awarness and multicultural environment can give me more tools to help my students.

Hello colleagues! I'm maestra Emma. I teach L1 and LS in a Primary School. My classes have students who come from different parts of the Earth. To include all the children and let them experience what happens when things are said in another language, I use L2 every day for routines and for things to do: I explain them and mime them. I do not use the word translate, I do not ask: How do I translate this word? I use the phrase: what is the saying in L1 / LS. Every word, every sentence is an expression of culture and history, of good practices. Being aware of the richness and the limit that brings diversity, we can not understand everything but we can try to understand a little more it is necessary to learn. Knowing other stories, foods, sounds, faces (every language has its faces) means knowing the need to learn.Some of my students in the summer attend school in their country or know songs, foods, uses that we do not know. This is why I have developed an UdA which is called "I am The Expert ". Children, helped by their parents present their other school, teach us a different school. Everyone is interested, does not mean that we no longer like our school, we know different ways. We have also seen study books from Japan, Korea, photos from other countries, other alphabets.I also like to use obsolete Italian words with sounds and shades of meaning that we risk losing. All of this intrigues and supports attention and motivation, because it is beautiful and concerns us. So learning is a bit easier.

2018-09-25 18:55:18 UTC

Mehtap Öz

mhtpz83 — 2018-09-25 18:55:41 UTC

Hello friends..I am an English teacher.I think language awareness is crucial and I am ready to learn.Thanks.

Erasmo,

2018-09-25 18:55:42 UTC

Hi All,
I am a teacher in secondary school.
We are living in a world where is becoming more and more important connectivity with people from foreign countries. It's important that students will be well prepared to face this in their future life. I am confident that this course will help me by supplying additonal teaching tools to support them.

Zeynep Taş Yardımcı, Turkey

zeyneptas0 — 2018-09-25 19:13:51 UTC

I'm an English teacher form Turkey. I think I'm a language-aware teacher as I study alot about language learning, however, I still need to develop some aspects such as cultural, traditional elements in my students' mother tongues. Turkish people have a huge difficulty in learning foreign languages so maybe this MOOC will help me understand why and find solutions to that problem.

Salvador Páez. SPAIN

salprosm1 — 2018-09-25 19:20:26 UTC

Hello friends!!!

I am a teacher in primary school in the south of Spain. I think that language awareness is essential for us as a teachers. I would like to teach my pupils the more the better to encoge their skills for the future. So this is the reason why I would like to take advance of this course.

Anja, Norway

2018-09-25 19:22:12 UTC

I am a teacher for German and Spanish at a secondary school. I think that I am a language-aware teacher, but struggle very much with getting my students interested in exploring their own language and other languages. I also get frustrated when students with beautiful mothertongues do not value their own knowledge, they seem to think that their languages don't count in our schoolsystem. I'd like to learn how to encourage them to be more open about it.

Marzia, Italy

2018-09-25 19:23:22 UTC

Hello, everybody!
I'm an italian primay teacher: I've been teaching english from 4 to 60 y,o. people in private schools, Italian to adults and kids as a second language and after 13 years as a class teacher, I'm back to my loved english teaching to kids. I've met a lot of foreign children and families and I'm not sure I've always been as good, as I should have, at language awareness so I'm very pleased to be part of this mooc. I think speaking foreign languages is very important also for empathy and the skill of seeing/understanding the others point of view.
What I think is very difficult but so important nowadays is to valorize as many languages as possible in our classes, such as arabic, chinese....and other languages, this can be done with games, sayings, songs and so on! I live in Maranello so I would like to participate with a photo of the Ferrari myth!

Maria Rosaria , Italy

tafymar — 2018-09-25 19:36:30 UTC

Hello everybody, I teach French in a lower secondary school, and I Think that language awareness is very important for teacher and pupils; especially nowadays it facilitates inclusion and develops respect for every foreign country

Hello

2018-09-25 19:40:16 UTC

I'm Khuraman from Azerbaijan.I have 5 years experience in teaching. I think I'll learn a lot in this mooc

Maria Calà, Italy

2018-09-25 19:42:54 UTC

Hello everyone!
I am a Catholic religion teacher in primary school. Sometimes I feel I'm up to my job and the role I play, especially when I have to work with foreign students who have no awareness of the language. I'm happy to attend this course. Today it is very important to enhance the languages and idioms in our classes, like Arabic, Chinese .... and other languages, even in a playful form

Agata Brescia, Italy

tatiagata_brescia — 2018-09-25 19:49:09 UTC

As Math teacher in the Secondary School, I explain the contents of the lesson and use language but I am not aware of the ways in which I do it.
I am seeing more and more , in my classes, students with unfamiliar names and different accents.
I think that it is through language that learners access the content of the lesson.
It is my responsability to make sure that language is not a barrier to learning.
I hope to acquire the elements of becoming a "language-aware" teacher!!!
"If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. ”
Nelson Mandela

Laura, Italy

2018-09-25 19:58:28 UTC

Hi everybody! I have been a Spanish and English teacher for 7 years. Apart from the Italian language, my students study three foreign languages (English, Spanish and French) and during our lessons I encourage them to compare the different language systems they manage in order to increase their language awareness.

Barbara, Italy

2018-09-25 20:10:04 UTC

Hi, I'm an English teacher in a primary school.I think language awareness is important and I make an effort every day , in my classes, to use new ways to teach this (Clil lessons included). I'd like to share ideas and experiences in this course.

language awareness

2018-09-25 20:19:14 UTC

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Pieri Stefania

2018-09-25 20:26:56 UTC

Hello everyone,I'm P.E and English teacher in a primary school and about thirty percent of my students are from other countries.So language awareness is essential for teachers and pupils.In these days we are working to celebrate European Day of Languages and this is a great opportunity to reflect on this topic.

Angela, Italy

2018-09-25 20:27:10 UTC

As a teacher of English at a secondary school, I am language-aware in theory, but I still need to develop a way to understand my student's needs better

Lanciate aware non

2018-09-25 20:28:24 UTC

Language awareness

2018-09-25 20:33:04 UTC

I think it is important to take into account the knowledge of a second language when teaching whichever subject. This because it may be an additional resource when it comes to acquiring something new. In some way we should be able to connect the new knowledge to the language the student already knows. Language is always

Francisca, from Spain

2018-09-25 20:44:47 UTC

Hello everybody. I'm a P.E. teacher in secundary school and it's the first time I teach in multilingual classroom, so I hope to learn a lot in this course and to share our experiencies about language awareness...

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isacetin03 — 2018-09-25 20:47:32 UTC

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I think it is very important to take into account the fact that the first language plays a crucial role in the learning process of whichever subject.

2018-09-25 20:49:02 UTC

Kirsten Barrett - Scotland

mynameiskirst — 2018-09-25 20:53:54 UTC

I am an EAL teacher (working with bilingual children here in Scotland.)
It is important to be "language-aware" as all teachers support children's learning and one way of doing this is to celebrate the diversity they bring to our classrooms. Bilingualism is a positive.

Angela gallo, Italy

mariangela_gallo68 — 2018-09-25 21:13:26 UTC

I teach English at the middle school and I think that language awareness is very important

Margherita Carta, Italy

margherita_carta — 2018-09-25 21:17:17 UTC

As a French teacher in a lower secondary school, I'm aware of the importance of languages as a mean of communication. Nevertheless, I believe it is essential to work and learn more and more to really become a language-aware teacher and to move students towards a deep understanding and learning. So, I'm here in order to work on teaching and learning strategies and find tools which can support and improve my every-day job.

Nadia Massariello Tibello, Italu

nadia_massariellotibello — 2018-09-25 21:22:14 UTC

Hello to everybody.
I'm an Italian and English teacher in a primary school.I think language awareness is important and I make an effort every day , in my classes, to use new ways to teach this.

Lara Melich, Tortosa

2018-09-25 21:32:19 UTC

I teach English and French to bilingual students who speak Catalan and Spanish and also students with other mother tongues, such as Arabic, Russian, Rumanian...
I usually try to compare words or structures that are common or similar in different languages, so they can associate and learn them easily. I feel they look curious and proud to see that they know the words in several languages

Voziari Ioanna, Greece

2018-09-25 21:38:32 UTC

Being a language-aware teacher helps learners feel more positive in the classroom and also more motivated to learn new things or participate in different activities

Andrea

mangiagalli — 2018-09-25 21:46:51 UTC

I'm a middle school technology teacher (a kind of strange subject we have in Italy...a mix betwen tech drawing - by hands and CAD too - and some info regarding actual industrial fields, construction, robotic, .... a lot of stuff).
I'm teaching in a small town, a godforsaken place, as I'm used to say to my pupils, even if this town is only 30 km from Milan.
We've a great number of first immigration kids, due to the low costs of the houses. They're from South America but, more often, from Africa (both North and Central), East Europe (Romania, Poland) and East Asia (Cina, India, Pakistan)
We're a real meltingpot of cultures and, realistically, my non Italian students son't speak Italian at home. In the first months of their being in Italy they have a small vocabulary and they are understandably frightened of speaking with their new classmates. I'm reasonably aware of the need of using language as a key to succeed in their integration both in our classes and in our society.
My partecipation to this course is to enlarge my views and prospectives.
I'm pretty sure I'll find a lot of interesting point of discussion and cues for my daily work

Carmen Guidetti, from Ferrara, Italy

carmenguidetti — 2018-09-25 22:04:31 UTC

I am foreing languafge teacher at secondary school and I think it is very important to be a language aware teacher. And it is not necessary to be a foreing language teacher to be one. I think that all ones should be. Sometimes, we can't find the best way or the best tool to improve our language awareness, sometimes we think it is not necessary at all because we can deal with daily lessons. >But when we open our classroom to other ones, as we can do being part of Etwinning community, we realise that we need to imporve this skill to let our students to increase and improve their languages competences and skills.

Serenella, Italy

2018-09-25 23:05:05 UTC

I teach English in a Primary school,, where the percentage of foreign students is not high, but things are changing lately and every year some new arrivals from European or non-European countries are a challenge for Teachers of any subjects. Being a Language-aware teacher can help a lot… (both for foreign and Italian pupils) So I hope to learn new teaching strategies during this course, sharing ideas and experiences with other colleagues.

Konstantina, Greece

2018-09-26 03:48:34 UTC

I think that I am a language aware teacher because I believe that our cultural and so, our language, make us the persons that we are and that is an element who specifies the teaching in the classroom with the students.

Melissa Mocriș, Romania

2018-09-26 05:25:39 UTC

Being myself a bilingual, I strongly believe that to be a ”language-aware” teacher is very necessary in the classroom. It can be helpful for the students because already knowing another language can help understand the second. Also, knowing 2 languages has a crucial role in understanding 2 different cultural and social backgrounds. It can change the way the way students looked at the world; they can find other ways of thinking. I believe that this course will help me in the way I approach the aspects of language awareness
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HI!

2018-09-26 05:54:40 UTC

Nicolina G., Italy

2018-09-26 07:00:03 UTC

I teach English as foreign language at a lower secondary school and I think that being a language aware teacher is very important. I work with students with special needs and with students from different countries. I am sure that this course will improve my language awareness to help all my students feel more motivated to learn or take part in different activities with benefits for everybody.

Laura Italy

laura_badalini — 2018-09-26 08:23:16 UTC

I'am a clil teacher in a secondary school and I have been teaching in multicultural classes for a long time . In these classes the teacher must understand the importance of language awarness in order to create a relationship with students coming from different countries and with different cultures .
I think I am a language-aware teacher because I often use my languages knowledge to approach new foreign students , and ask them to teach the class some words from their mother language , to make them feel confortable and motivate to learn our language .

Ana, Portugal

2018-09-26 08:47:04 UTC

I teach both English and Portuguese as second languages. I feel like a language-aware teacher, because I try to understand the different challenges my sts are facing, because I have Chinese and Ukrainian sts who are learning a second or third language and it's not always easy to explain some grammar structures.

Clara, Portugal

claraabegao — 2018-09-26 09:04:39 UTC

Dealing with the great linguistic variety is one of the greatest difficulties of the teacher and of the human being, in general. Many times the presence of linguistic and cultural diversity leads to tension, unleashes feelings of intolerance and, especially, the prejudice that defines differences as something negative. The lack of appreciation of linguistic diversity contributes to the confirmation of linguistic and cultural prejudice and this prejudice leads to discrimination, generating problems of interaction between students and between students and teachers, causing the classroom to become a place of social exclusion.
I belive I am a language aware teacher because I try hard to integrate foreign language (and culture) in my practice.

Maria Carla, Italy

2018-09-26 10:23:42 UTC

I think I feel like a language-aware teacher, and in my opinion this is probably the most important aspect when you teach in a foreign language. Language awareness allows your students to feel their experience as real and necessary.

Daniela, Romania

danardana2000 — 2018-09-26 11:56:22 UTC

I am IT teacher and I use the information gathered from the Internet in various languages (English, French, Spanish) in teaching the subject. I encourage my students to read articles about a specific subject in English, for example,
In this way they will improve their language skills.

Manlio Ajello, Italy

2018-09-26 11:57:53 UTC

I am an Art teacher and I consider important the knowledge of other languages, above all to overcome the communication gap with foreign students, who are often present in the classroom, but also to better involve them in sharing their discipline skills or personal ideas and opinions.

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2018-09-26 12:35:23 UTC

2018-09-26 12:36:29 UTC

Hi. I am a Clil teacher. I am languag

Hi. I am Gabriella from Milan, Italy and I am a Clil teacher in a Secondary High Scool. I am language aware. I am deeply convinced that a good language awareness, both in L1 and L2, is fundamental for an efficient problem solving reasoning in every field of daily life. If we are not aware of our language possibilities or language limits then we are not aware of our possibilities or limits of our thoughts, concepts since they are just "language". We can thinkabout something just because we can "speak" of it. If we cannot define an emotion with a word, express it in a sentence then it might not exist for us.

2018-09-26 12:48:56 UTC

elijanko from italy

2018-09-26 12:56:57 UTC

Hi to everybody! I'm a teacher of History of Art in Italy. I have been trying to teach with clil method, but I'm not sure to be smart enough to reach my goals! I'm convinced that we need a deep knowledge of other languages (not only ourmother tounge), but it's a hard challenge!!!

Fredrik Sweden

2018-09-26 13:19:37 UTC

I work as a Swedish as a second language teacher and for me, language awareness is about respect. Respecting the diversity of languages in the classroom and our different experiences

Hi! I teach french in Romania to students from 14 to 20 years old. I think is important to encourage our pupils to think and communicate in a foreign language because is good for their future. Speaking one or more languages help them to better accomodate in every country they go or to find better jobs.

violeta_crst — 2018-09-26 13:24:56 UTC

Carmela from Italy

carmela_alberghina — 2018-09-26 13:30:48 UTC

Hi I'm a teacher of English in a lower secondary school. Today in my school we have just celebrated The European Day of Languages and I invited my students to think about the importance of learning foreign languages. Some of them said that speaking foreign languages it's very important not only to be closer to different cultures and understand them but also for their future jobs. I can add that it helps students to get responsible and self confident citizens of the world.

Francesco from Italy

2018-09-26 13:34:44 UTC

Hi to everybody, I teach italian grammar and literature to students from 11 to 14 years old. I've just begun to think like a “language-aware” teacher, thanks to this course. To be a “language-aware” teacher it's important open-mindedness. Have a nice day!

Hi there! I teach English in a lower secondary school in Tuscany, Italy. My students are from 11 to 14 and many of them come from foreign countries. I always aim at enhancing language and culture diversity in my classes. I love planning CLIL activities together with my colleagues! I think it's fundamental to be a language-aware teacher nowadays: language is communication, language is culture. Language awareness has to do with respect and good citizenship.

continuita1 — 2018-09-26 13:52:05 UTC

Gioia, Italy

Hi I'm a teacher of Art History. I was born in Italy and have essentially lived all my life in Italy, but my mother is originally from Germany. I immediately wanted to learn as many languages as I could at school and I aim at enhancing language. I think it is important to think like a "language -aware" teacher .

2018-09-26 14:25:27 UTC

Patty from Italy

2018-09-26 15:04:27 UTC

Hello, I'm a teacher of English and Science in a Primary School. My students are from 6 to 10/11 and some of them come from foreign countries. Therefore teaching English with CLIL is a way to use foreign language for thinking in parallel with mother tongue and the focus is not on structure or grammar, but on language use in real- life contexts.

Angela from Italy

angelamdeceglie — 2018-09-26 15:05:53 UTC

Hi everybody! I teach English in a middle school . I'm happy to learn more about language awareness , it's challenging

Joanna, Poland.

2018-09-26 15:17:41 UTC

I teach English as a second language in mixed nationality classes . To be language aware means, for me, to be culture aware and realize what importance language has for individuals .

Luigi,Italy

Simbaleomomo — 2018-09-26 15:19:06 UTC

I teach English but I am also pecial need teacher in a upper secondary school. A good number of students in my school come from different Countries and some of them don't speak Italian .As more and more migrants and refugees are coming to our country and to our schools, I think it is essential to be a language aware teacher!

CINZIA, ITALY

2018-09-26 15:24:27 UTC

Hi! I teach English and Italian in a primary school. My class is composed of different cultures and some special needs pupils. To be language aware, in my opinion, means to be conscious of the power of words, of the of compare different languages and different cultures. Maybe I am keen on the theory about this, but I am looking forward to learning how to concretize my ideas.

Anna Rosa, Italy

2018-09-26 15:31:36 UTC

I'm a Clil teacher in History in a language secondary school. Being aware is maybe the most important value when teaching in English. Students get contents while enriching their own language awareness.

Hi,I'm a student of education,I think it is significant to encourage our pupils to learn foreign language as it is good for their future.By knowing more language they can find job in other countries and also able to understand foreigners and their culture

pardeepkaur9aug1994 — 2018-09-26 15:33:54 UTC

Francesco,Italy

2018-09-26 15:34:39 UTC

Francesco, Italy

2018-09-26 15:48:25 UTC

Howdy you all! My name is Francesco and I teach Literature, History and Geography in a secondary school of a little country village near Venice ( guys from 11 to 13). In my opinion it's very important to be a language-aware teacher above all if you like sharing with your students what you like most (and I'm not only talking about contents but also feelings). When you read a poem by Shakespeare or you tell your guys something about American Revolution or Natives and you want them to get complitely into that historical moment you should use English language to create the right atmosphere, so that they can understand and feel what was really happened. If you have any students coming from other countries it becomes more interesting because you can try to show them the importance of being a sort of big family, a group , a team which can comunicate using the same language.

Anna De Donno, Italy

annadedonno — 2018-09-26 15:48:30 UTC

I teach English and I like to use CLIL methodology because I think it's a way to enlarge our thinking and to be conscious of language awareness. It is necessary to be aware of the language we teach and the language our students use. We need to think of scaffolding activities to pre-teach the vocabulary our students need.

Maria Luisa, Italy

2018-09-26 16:20:13 UTC

Hi, I am an English teacher in an upper secondary school in Piacenza- Italy. I am also a CLIL teacher and I cooperate with collegues teaching other subjects, in particular technical ones. Also my classes are full of students from different countries and I would like to improve my teaching skills and hope to enhance my and my student's Language awareness.
Thanks for the opportunity

Language awareness

lauragiunta9 — 2018-09-26 16:25:52 UTC

Language awareness

lauragiunta9 — 2018-09-26 16:28:53 UTC

Maria Covino

2018-09-26 16:35:52 UTC

Italy
Hi! I'm an English teacher in a lower Secondary School. In my opinion all of us need to have a language awareness, expecially at school where there are a lot of multicultural students. Nowadays being language aware is a neccesity to live with other foreign people; students studying foreign languages, have the opportunity to open their mind to the world, to understand better the differences of cultures, to compare with others and to communicate with all the people they want.

Laurie, Germany

canadaday — 2018-09-26 16:45:11 UTC

Hello! I am a support teacher at an international primary school in Germany. Before moving to a Germany, I taught English in senior schools in Canada. I had no training as an EFL teacher and must admit to feeling immensely frustrated with the minimal levels of reading and writing proficiency of many of my former students. To further “complicate” matters, many of their family members had limited oral language skills in English so establishing the much needed home/school connection (without a translator) was virtually impossible. Since living abroad, learning the German language, and teaching at an international school (in which 30 different languages are represented), I have become much more receptive to multilingual environments. This has been an area of both personal and professional growth for me. As a much more language aware teacher, I consider language awareness to be at the core of human interaction.

Alessandra, Italy

irishwoman26 — 2018-09-26 16:50:50 UTC

Hello! In my opinion every teacher of every subject should be language-aware, as it is important in order to guide students in their scaffolding learning path. This starts from mother-tongue that is usually and wrongly given for granted. On the contrary it requires guidance and practice towards the students' language awareness. As for foreign languages, students should study more than one, so that they understand practically what lies beyond language expressions. Cultural diversity can be acquired only through language awareness.

2018-09-26 16:52:51 UTC

Hi, my name's Antonella and I'm a primary school teacher. In my class there are some foreign students who have difficulties in understanding Italian language or simply don't understand some specific word of school subjects because these ones are not used in colloquial speech. I think being a more language aware teacher can help me to find more strategies to help my students.

2018-09-26 16:54:01 UTC

Sandra Leite, Azores - PORTUGAL

leite_sandra — 2018-09-26 16:55:48 UTC

Within the classroom, it is necessary to show a motivated and open education based on learning, the interests that the students have about the world and the environment; which is shared and shared in the planning of the work to be done; that is cooperative, collaborative and in interaction knowing how to work together, going to the meeting that it is necessary to be a teacher "with knowledge of language". Hence, the pertinence of the work of my classroom under project methodology for the eTwinning and Scientix projects.

Anna

2018-09-26 17:02:01 UTC

Hi, I'm a primary school teacher. I totally agree with Letizia Cingagnotto.

Hello , I'm a teacher of English and science in a Primary School in Puglia , Italy. In my school there are pupils that come from foreign countries. Teaching Clil my students have the possibility to use the foreign language for thinking in parallel with the mother tongue. Moreover the focus is not on structures or grammar , but on language use in real -life contexts.

2018-09-26 17:06:07 UTC

Maria Rosa

maryroseprof — 2018-09-26 17:12:59 UTC

I’m a Maths teacher in a secondary school in Sicily( Italy).I’m trying to improve my English to become a CLIL teacher. I think that being a language aware teacher is very important to engage students to learn Maths in English. In this way students might improve their English skills and their vocabulary by learning specific words that we use in Maths lessons.

sevim hazar-Turkey

2018-09-26 17:25:48 UTC

Language awareness blends a) content about language, b) language skill, c) attitudinal education and d) metacognitive opportunities, which allow the student to reflect on the process of language acquisition, learning and language use. All four of these aspects of language awareness need to be integrated into the existing subject areas. A focus on language awareness is a key aspect of creating student-centered classrooms, and assists the teacher to present material accordingly to student readiness.

Stefania

2018-09-26 17:31:47 UTC

Hello!

I teach in a secondary school and I think that it is very important to be a language-aware teacher.

First of all, it could be helpful in order to show and to analyse the differences that we can find between two or more languages. In addition, studying these differences could be a successful way to learn and improve your skill in a foreign language.

Being a language-aware teacher can help you to find new strategies in order to improve your teaching method. For example, when I was a student our Spanish teacher explained us the difference between por qué and porque using why and because. At the beginning, it was quite difficult to understand how to use them in Spanish, but thanks to this example we learnt it quickly.

Chrysanthi

2018-09-26 17:34:13 UTC

I learn these things while I was at the university, because Lingustics was my object. So I think we can understand how important language awareness is by working with students without any awareness of language. There isn´t any concept in their mind about what language really is. But they start very quickly to compare with their own language by learning a second of course and this helps them to acquire awareness. So, a teacher must show them, that language is a system, but it is much more than that: It is the way I think, the way I see and understand the world.

Agata, Italy

scanselli — 2018-09-26 17:36:42 UTC

I'am teacher of English but I feel I can teach more than English. I love my students sharing their own language and life-style experience in class, and I love reminding them that each of them is unique and has a very particular richness to bring into the lessons. In this sense I may say I'm language-aware. The major difficulty I'm still facing is the embarassment that students sometimes feel when exposing themselves as "different" just because of their origins. I hope this MOOC can give me the right tools to use in class in order to help them overcome their negative feelings ...

Anna Maria Scrimieri

annamaria_scrimieri — 2018-09-26 17:38:36 UTC

My essential motive as a language teacher is stimulating pupils to develop an ability to think critically about language and to create a challenging and an inspirational environment in which pupils are encouraged to realise that learning is a process related to oneself. This implies the importance of being able to understand one’s own way of thinking and the use of language as a medium in order to learn a foreign language. In other words, my ambitions involve stimulating metacognition of my pupils.

Stathis Likidis, Greece

2018-09-26 17:46:51 UTC

I'm a teacher on electronics and computing at a secondary school. I believe that being language-aware is important not only to understand the native language of my students but also their culture. Language and culture awareness help us to understand in the maximum degree students in my class, something that makes the communication easier. Language and culture characterize everyone...

Being Aware of Language Diversity by Nives Torresi

2018-09-26 17:47:13 UTC

Amanpreet, India

2018-09-26 17:50:11 UTC

Hello,
I am an alpha teacher which means, I am learning how to teach students and according to me language awareness plays a very vital role while teaching students irrespective of any subject. By learning English language it will enhance my skills as well as will help me to know all the students from diverse regions. I will be teaching computers in future so according to me to be language-aware will not only help to understand the native languages but also all their culture too.

Manuela, Portugal

2018-09-26 18:11:52 UTC

I am a teacher of English as a second language and I believe that being language-aware is really important. It has become more and more common to have students from different nationalities in class and we really need to know how to deals with that.

Elena from Perugia

2018-09-26 18:13:05 UTC

Hello, I’m a teacher of English as EFL in a vocational school. My students, aged 14-19, come from different countries. We have multicultural classes and I think this is an opportunity and a resource to widen our cultural and language horizons. It’s a bit demanding but also a great challenge

Jeane de Fatima - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

2018-09-26 18:25:06 UTC

Language, how do we communicate?
The phrase used by Mandela represents how important communication is.
Hje participated in the Webinar and was delighted with Profª's experience in presenting other languages in a creative and interactive way.

naterobi_nr — 2018-09-26 18:25:19 UTC

Now that you know more about Language awareness, we ask you to reflect about this. Do you feel like a language-aware teacher? And if so, Why do you think it is important to be a ¨language-aware¨ teacher If not, what aspects of language awareness do you still need to develop? Please share your reflections in the padlet below. Thanks!

Being aware of Language Diversity by Nives Torresi

NTorresi — 2018-09-26 18:42:31 UTC

I am a native Speaker of English and teach in local High Schools at Secondary level. I have been teaching for over 20 years here in Italy. My background is Italo-Australian, I was born of Italian immigrants, completed my schooling and worked in Australia. Then I moved to Italy where I married and live in the countryside.
In Australia our schools were full of multi-cultural students and Teachers. Understanding and learning about each other's culture was the norm in growing up. I bring this experience with me into the Italian classroom using it as a basis for speaking, discussion and project topics.

Carmen from Spain

biologiamencia — 2018-09-26 18:58:16 UTC

I do not consider I am a language-aware teacher. I teach Biology in a second language, a different one to my mother tongue. Taking into account the Cummings´ definition, I consider I am more trained in CALP than in BICS, at some extent.
Living in a global world, it is necessry to develop LA as an important part of our proffessional teacher development plan.
When I teach using CLIL methodologies, I try to collabate in the design of the didactic units with the teacher who is the specialist in teaching the second language (english, in my case)at school for helping me in the linguistic objectives that I need to accomplish.
It is for that reason, I need to keep on learning in depth how to use a second language , basically in the 5 skilss of language learning.

2018-09-26 19:06:59 UTC

Samantha, European School, Varese
Hello! I'm Samantha Emanuele, I teach art at the European School of Varese, I have mixed groups in my classes of different nationalities, the students come from English, German, Italian, Dutch, French, this is my second year in the European School and this course is very important for me.

Maura I

scaramaura — 2018-09-26 19:55:06 UTC

I studi ed s

scaramaura — 2018-09-26 19:55:55 UTC

I studied foreign languages at university and I teach English as a foreign language in a

Marijana from Croatia

marijana_ivicaeng — 2018-09-26 19:58:13 UTC

I am a French and English teacher at a secondary school in Zagreb (students 14-19) and I have been teaching for 17 years. I don't think I am completely a language-aware teacher since in my school most students are Croatian. and we don't have multi-lingual students. But times are changing, so at the moment I have 3 new students in one class who are from China and Kosovo, so I hope this course will provide me with new confidence and practical tools to benefit from this cultural and language diversity.

Marilena from Modena

2018-09-26 20:06:36 UTC

Hi, I think I'm a language-aware teacher. The fact of being aware doesn't necessarily mean I am completely successful in teaching but I try. I teach French, I LOVE this language, it's the language of my soul, but I am interested in all languages, above all the farthest, which I consider the most exotic. The most amazing fact in any language is that there is ALWAYS a cultural background in it, in its lexis and functions there are historical, geographical and anthropological items. How interesting it is! Different kinds of greetings, for example, but every language has an AIM: to communicate! In "my" school there are many pupils of different nationalities and it's important for them to learn how to communicate in Italian but it's even important for us to know their languages in order to help them overcome their difficulties to express themselves in a foreign language.

Dulcinea - Portugal

2018-09-26 20:11:47 UTC

Hello,
I teache history in Valença to students of diferents ages , but most important, of a variety of cultures; We have studens from Brasil, Spain, China, Gypsis, etc.Dealing with theme and the great linguistic variety, but also the diferents cultures is one of yhe greatest dificulties of a teacher today. If we do not learn to respect and acept this diferencies as something positive we can not contribue for a better sociey

Simona from Porto Azzurro, Italy

2018-09-26 20:32:32 UTC

Hi, I think I'm becoming more aware about language. I've taught English for years and years in primary schools, in Italy. I've taught Italian too for 5 years. I became aware about lnguage when I started teaching Italian to my pupils: I realized how our "mother tongue" is culture, gives us a structure to our thoughts. It's very interesting teaching both Italian and english to the same young learners because you can use one language to "help" learning the other.... you can play with them: i. e.: we're lucky, we are italian and we know when to each article (il, lo, la, i gli, le) without studying.... and when we study english we only have "the",
I work in an Erasmus+ school, we often have friends coming from other countries and we go to other countries with young pupils...
What I miss and I would like to learn more here is how to encourage ant strenghten multilingual activities in my classes "using" more and better the other languages spoken by some children or by their mums/dads. So I'm looking for class strategies for young learners.

Laura,Sicily

2018-09-26 20:53:44 UTC

I'm a maths teacher and I'm studing to become a CLIL teacher .and I've been in Dublin thanks to Erasmus Progect K1,where I attended a CLIL course.
What I think about language aweareness is that studing a foreign language help students not only to improve accuracy and fluency but also to better understand every subject .I would like to know new teaching methods so to improve my knowledge.
As a result, it's very important to be a language aweare teacher

J. Javier M-Spain

jjaviering1 — 2018-09-26 20:59:15 UTC

in order to become language aware, we as teachers should understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. These challenges may come because of learning a subject through an additional language or it may be the first time our students find some vocabulary or structures in their first language. Teachers who are ‘language aware’ understand why students face these difficulties and what we can do to help students overcome problems.

EZEL TUNA -TURKEY

ezeltuna — 2018-09-26 21:12:27 UTC

I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using.

Josefina Martín

fefimg — 2018-09-26 21:17:43 UTC

Language awareness is key to make a sensible approach to language teaching and learning. As bilingual program coordinator I usually start talking and about this different concepts to my CLIL subject teachers ,Cummings BIC and CALP concepts. When you teach a foreign language you need to go back to mother tongue and forth to the foreign language exposing students to tbe aware of the differences and likeness between both.

Sara, Aveiro, Portugal

2018-09-26 21:19:12 UTC

Over the years I've taught from primary to adults. Language is culture and reflects heritage. Each language is a world, each speaker has a part in it. Children in particular value that teachers are interested in them and if they speak another language, they like sharing it. The more languages you know, the easier you can communicate- that's what I told my 8-year-olds this monday. My kids come from different countries and I make sure they know that is valuable for everyone.

Maria do Rosário, Gaia, Portugal

2018-09-26 22:09:30 UTC

More than being language aware, I believe it is important to make students aware of the responsibility of using their language to communicate BICs and CALP which nowadays is becoming harderspecially in places where social and economical difficulties are present in a daily basis.
In my school we are dealing with a large group of gipsies who lack competences to communicate since they don't value on the one hand, school, on the other hand because they are socially very limited to their community. They lack the will to interact with their classmates and adults. It's a challenge for teachers to make them participate and understand the importance of being fluent. Being aware of the languages in school is one of the reasons to enroll in this course. I wish I'll learn a lot to use afterwards.

Language is closely related to thinking so if a teacher

2018-09-26 22:10:22 UTC

The importance of communication Patrizia Apetino Italia

2018-09-26 22:21:23 UTC

The major part of communication isn't verbal, even if we often forget it. Language awareness is very important moreover when you use Clil methodology.

Isabel Couto, Lisboa, Portugal

isabelle_couto — 2018-09-26 23:40:13 UTC

As a teacher of French and Portuguese, I believe that mastering languages is increasingly important. Speaking other languages, apart from the obvious professional benefits, is the best alternative to fully interact with other cultures, in a globalized world and increasingly demanding that we can interact with people from all over the world.
When we teach a language, we teach not only grammatical structures, vocabulary. We allow our students to connect with other cultures and even discover their own culture. These end up developing various skills at different levels.

Hello everyone!

2018-09-27 03:32:58 UTC

Madalina Cucaila, Romania
Language awareness is very important in our society. Children from different countries study together, so it's important to make students aware of their language.

Erasmo, Italy

2018-09-27 05:10:00 UTC

Do you feel like a language-aware teacher? Yes I do, so far I missed the theory behind that (e.g.I J. Cummins...) but I have always thought that it's crucial in modern world to be able to communicate in a 2nd language. What i need to develolop? I would like to know more practical tools to be able to better transfer it to my students.

Krizia, Italy

kriziaiese — 2018-09-27 07:28:10 UTC

Hi, I'm an English teacher. I think it's fundamental to have students aware of their own language and of the foreign language they are studying. They need to reflect and understand the best way to communicate

Ginevra, Italy

2018-09-27 08:39:13 UTC

Hello everyone! I'm a Primary teacher. Often in the classroom there are children who come from different countries, it's important to make students aware of their Language.

Silvia, Italy

2018-09-27 08:40:05 UTC

I think language awareness is important for all the teachers, this is why I decided to start this course. I don't feel like a language-aware teache because I have teaching for only one year, but I want to work on this and try to improvemy knowledge and language awareness.

Rosy,Italy

2018-09-27 09:15:44 UTC

There are lots of different foreign students in my classroom. It is very difficult for them to explain what they have to .

Patrizia, Italy

2018-09-27 09:39:35 UTC

Hello everybody.
I am an italian teacher of secondary school. All my students are adults and they come from different countries, so they have different mother languages. Sometimes it is very difficult for me to teach in such contest. I hope this course will help me to do my job with a new awareness and with new tools.

Krisnel, Italy

krisneln — 2018-09-27 10:49:18 UTC

Language is a fundamental part of the exchange between people. I am a teacher of technical subjects who is learning to use the CLIL methodology for this a greater awareness of the vehicular language is important.

Sandra, Italy

sandra_evangelio — 2018-09-27 10:59:08 UTC

I'm a teacher of English as a second language and I think of being aware of language diversity because very often in our school there are students from different country, language and culture. For this reason I?d like to learn more practical tools and new teaching methods to help my students in their learning activities

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2018-09-27 12:14:38 UTC

Language Awareness

2018-09-27 12:31:36 UTC

Hello
I am primary teacher and I think that language awareness is important not only to understand the native language of the students but it also helps to know about different cultures. Moreover, nowadays being language aware is a neccesity to live with foreign people as well as studying foreign languages,have the great opportunity for students and teachers to improve their skills and knowledge all about the world

2018-09-27 12:33:55 UTC

I am here to learn something about language diversity in the school setting

2018-09-27 12:36:27 UTC

I here to learn something about language diversity in the classroom

Fernanda, Portugal

2018-09-27 12:42:12 UTC

It is important for teachers to get students connected with these aspects aspects of language learning to improve their skills. I believe I'm aware of this diversity but I
think I need to expand it.

Natalia, Italy

nbv777 — 2018-09-27 13:00:25 UTC

I'm an English teacher at a middle school in Italy. I think of being aware of language diversity because in my school there are students from many countries and they speak different languages. Of course, They also share with us their culture.

Me too, I’m Spanish, I live in Italy and I teach English to students that come from different parts of the world, that’s why, I’d like to improve old tools and of course, to know new tools, resources and teaching methods to help students.

Language awareness

2018-09-27 14:06:16 UTC

I’m a teacher in a secondary school in Rome, subject Italian, history and geography. I’d like to increase and improve my language awareness and that of my students. I’m starting learning Clil because, even if i’m not used to work with foreign students, i think it’s important to enlarge my own language skills, in order to help guys with particular needs.

Giota, Greece

2018-09-27 14:21:15 UTC

working with refugees children from Africa, with plurilingual reprertoires and enrolling them at the greek schools it is a great opportunity to talk about intercomprehension of languages and Clil or the principle of interdependance but it is also so diffficult and challenging to create material
i want to embrace their wealth of languages, their plurilngual competence

Roberta, Venice

roberta_folli — 2018-09-27 14:43:19 UTC

I strongly believe that each student is unique and I try to transmit them that mastering more languages widens their possibilities of expressing their opinions and feelings with more accuracy and richness.
I hope I will learn new teaching methods to help them learn a language with pleasure.

Serena, Italy

2018-09-27 15:05:27 UTC

I've been always fond of languages and I'e been studying this subject all life long.....and I'm still doing! I think language awareness is the main key to provide our students with the most useful tools to be and feel citizens of the world. Education can only be conveyed throught language and people need to be well prepared to face nowadays problems but also to take all the possibilities to improve their life and relation sharing ideas and projects. I think I'm language-aware teacher, however sometimes I find difficult to involve my collegues in new challanges working together

Erika, Italy

szazie — 2018-09-27 15:30:06 UTC

So far (from 2016) I had the opportunity to develop a project addressed to 23 children of different ages (between 6 and 10 years old) who did not attend courses of Catholic Religion concerning ‘Interculture, Citizenship and Costitution’ in a Primary School near Milan, I could/can work with children who speak Italian as a second language fluently and children who had to start with the basics. The majority are from Egypt and Morocco, but I had one student from Ecuador and one student from China too.

Considering the peculiar aspects of my project, I had to acknowledge the importance of being a language aware teacher. Language awareness is the first step to learn to communicate with students characterized by different social and cultural backgrounds. When the language spoken at school is completely different from the language spoken at home, children can experience a lot of difficulties not related to the specific subject that is taught, but to the unfamiliar language that is used to teach it.
A teacher who is not language aware is a teacher who is not aware of the fact that a language can become a real barrier that prevent the learner from reaching the real contents of his/her lessons. This misunderstanding can have a very negative effect: the strategies implemented by the teacher to help the learner won’t be effective because they won’t solve the learner's real problem (low linguistic proficiency).
I think that I was able to become a more language aware teacher, even though I know that I need to develop some aspects of my language awareness, especially considering all the activities linked to the assessment. Last June, during a course (programme of study), I discovered that all the tests I had designed were not completely suitable for the students who spoke Italian as a second language. They were not stratified and not “calibratable” in accordance with children’s age, intercultural and linguistic competence.

Christina, Finland

2018-09-27 15:30:55 UTC

Language awareness

Christina, Finland

2018-09-27 15:33:05 UTC

Children in today's world are often already coming from various language backgrounds. Their homelanguage might be different to that of the school. Language awareness helps teachers to create space for diverse thinking; each language has its own way of thinking, concepts etc. Allowing and exploring these diverse ways with the pupils the teacher can create an atmosphere of acceptance and creativity and help the pupils to reach their full potential.

Cristina,Italy

2018-09-27 15:36:33 UTC

I have been teaching languages for 22 years, because I'm an Italian and Latin teacher in Secondary school. I'm very fond of the language, its components. For long time I wasn't a language aware teacher, because I taught my subjects only to Italian students. When I met CLIL methodology, I discovered something new also in my usual way to teach. Furthermore , in the last years, I had to cope with students coming from a lot of different country of Europe and not only and , mostly, I had to learn English that I had abandoned more than twenty years ago. Classrooms are more and more full of stranger students and I think that being language-aware teachers will make us better in our educational aims. Communicating is the first need, so a vehicular language is important , but we can understand that all the languages can partecipate in building a deeper knowledge. and stranger students could be a resource.

Miriam- Madrid

2018-09-27 15:37:14 UTC

I’m an italian primary school teacher. I have taught in Madrid for two years in an italian school with spanish children. Before I moved here, I taught in a multicultural school in Rome for almost twenty years. So, I think I developed a language awareness to answer the needs of my pupils coming form different countries of the world. In particular, in Rome, teaching italian as second language to migrants pupils, I worked to they acquire comunication skills, but also academic language to face better middle school.

Now, teaching italian as a stranger language in a spanish contest, I'm working overall to educate to metalinguistic skills. Italian is not a second language here in Madrid, so my students play, communicate and speech all day in spanish and they exercise italian language only in the school with the teachers.

So, the first need here is to improve metalinguistic awareness to control better the use of these two languages, that are also very similar. Therefore, I try to work on difference between spanish and italian but also on the common underlying proficiencies

Maria Rita, Italy

2018-09-27 16:11:02 UTC

I am an English teacher. I became a language-aware student during an internship as teacher in an italian language school for foreigners. So I think I am a language-aware teacher. During that experience I realized the fact that each student has a completely different background and the teachers needed to be prepared and aware of that to start the language learning path. Despite my experience, I am sure I need to improve my awareness and to learn new methods and strategies to help the students to be proud of their mother language while they’re learning a new one.

Maura, Italy

scaramagli_maura — 2018-09-27 17:32:41 UTC

Vassiliki Boltsi, Greece

phoebe1_gallika — 2018-09-27 17:54:56 UTC

As a foreign language teacher I am full aware of Language awareness. Another reason is that South European countries have received many immigrants and Greece is one of these. Classes have become multilingual.

Nicoleta- Romania

2018-09-27 18:04:33 UTC

I am a primary school teacher in a secondary school with over 750 students. We have a lot of kids who speak two different languages- Italian, Spanish, English, French- because they used to live a period of time with parents abroad. I strongly belive in the importance of language diversity and I hope to learn more from your experience.

Jesús (Spain)

jesus_griego — 2018-09-27 18:38:54 UTC

I consider myself a language-aware teacher, surely due to the fact that I have been teaching for several years spoken languages (English in bilingual groups of students and French in school exchanges) and literary languages such as Latin and Greek. To my view using multilingual resources in our classrooms is a powerful tool for teaching and learning. I think I haven’t found disadvantages in this methodology so far. Perhaps I am an optimistic teacher and tend to focus only on benefits.

LAURA PAGNOZZI

2018-09-27 19:04:16 UTC

Camelia - Romania

2018-09-27 19:27:59 UTC

I am a history teacher at a primary school where there are also roma students. They, sometimes, don't even understand basic words from the language I'm teaching and being conscious of their difficulties I consider language awareness very important.

Giselda Costa- Teresina-Piauí-Brazil

2018-09-27 19:59:50 UTC

The teacher who has language-aware can avoid linguistic prejudices within his class. It is necessary to know the verbal and nonverbal discourse (the body language) and to know how to read the image critically. A teacher who is ‘language aware’ understands why students face these difficulties and what they can do to support students.

Margaret - Poland

2018-09-27 20:12:01 UTC

In the place where I live there are no foreign students so I can't check if I am a language-aware teacher. But I want my school to develop and I want to show my students that language awareness is important. What they say, what words they use - it matters. Especially when they have contact with an English speaker. I want to learn more about the subject.

2018-09-27 20:19:50 UTC

I feel language awareness is deeply important, I’ve fallen in love of Cummings iceberg metaphore but.... I’m not able to explane how and I’m not sure to be a LA teacher....
Need studying animore....

Elisa-Italy

2018-09-27 20:25:23 UTC

I am a Business Teacher in a really multicultural school in the centre of Milan (Italy). Almost all my students are foreigners and some of them have just moved to Italy from coutries like The Philippines, Santo Domingo Syria and so on. It means that I NEED to become a language aware teacher. For this reason I am attending a Clil course and I want to improve and my capabilities to teach in L2. However that's not enough. In order to manage their different backgrounds I'd like to develop inclusive strategies that can help students to love both the italian culture and their own ones. Moreover I'd like my student to understand how beautiful is diversity and how important is fighting against xenophobia.

Being language aware and language competent (Maria Rosaria - Italy)

2018-09-27 20:35:37 UTC

Each person should aim to become language aware and language competent as much as each person should be aware of the tools he/she uses in order to perform actions in his/her life.
That's why no matter the language we speak (L1 - L2 - LS - AL - etc.), we should acknowledge that language allows us to communicate and to negotiate meanings. As a teacher of Italian and History I rather feel language aware and I always offer my students the chance to focus on the language of the topics we are dealing with.

I teach English in a primary school in Northern Italy. Most of my pupils are from other countries. English is the common language for them and helps them to find a real way to communicate and interact at school. Besides, I find that chidren born in Italy from foreign parents, or who learn Italian at school, but still speak their mother tongue at home, are more aware of differences and similarities when working together...

2018-09-27 20:39:03 UTC

Cemile-Turkey

2018-09-27 21:12:12 UTC

I am preschool teacher. I want to show my pupils that language awareness is very important.

Yasemin Uysal-Muğla/Turkey

YaseminUysal — 2018-09-27 21:30:26 UTC

I am the teacher of English in Yatağan,Muğla.I want to learn and teach language awareness to my students.I try to teach different things in the foreign language.I hope I will learn new information about language awareness in this MOOC

Tiziana- Italy

titty_ska — 2018-09-27 21:37:25 UTC

I teach in a primary school and I really believe that language awareness is important for students since they are very Young. They should be put in the condition to know other languages and interact.

I teach English in a primary school and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides it allows facing with people of different countries and cultures so that our pupils can extend their knowledge.

2018-09-28 05:27:39 UTC

what aspects of language awareness do you still need to develop?

2018-09-28 06:42:58 UTC

Chiara, from Mantova, Italy. I would like to develop a method to make teens (15-22) more confident in speaking daily language especially abroad.

My aim is to help students to reach this awareness autonomously, managing their own learning time, using excercises, slides, video mapping, skype call, social media, freeware tools, everything they would consider useful, building their learning togheter with me.

The teacher in my dream will be a mean to an end/facilitator of learning

Krisnel, Italy

krisneln — 2018-09-28 07:45:34 UTC

I am a teacher of technical subjects, so for me language has always been of great importance, in mechanics it must be unequivocal in meaning. Naturally one never stops learning and improving oneself, the society evolves and so the languages a comparison with the others always brings a personal and professional enrichment.

Laura, Italy

2018-09-28 08:56:42 UTC

As a teacher language awareness is very important because it helps you understand your students' learning process with the possible difficulties they may face. You are able to understand the reasons why students can face challenges in learning a language or through a language and you can support them with adequate tools/strategies.

Tec

2018-09-28 09:34:34 UTC

I think is very motivating using more than one language in teaching, both for improving my language skills an to find empathy with my foreign students ( i work in a CPIA).

2018-09-28 10:00:51 UTC

Nuno, PT

profnpms — 2018-09-28 11:23:27 UTC

I consider myself language aware and I understand the need to be it.

I'm a technical teacher of Food and Beverage and I my hope is that students feels the importance of language for their future

2018-09-28 11:24:24 UTC

Moisés Silva, Portugal

Hümeyra YENER/TURKEY

hs_yener — 2018-09-28 11:42:41 UTC

As a teacher, I’m trying to use English frequently but to tell the truth I’m not sure how I am aware of teacher language awareness. I feel like I have a good grasp of structures or grammar but I sometimes have difficulty in speaking fluently. I know language doesn’t only consist of vocabulary or grammar. With the help of this MOOC, I will be able to build language awareness in my classes. By increasing students’ language awareness, we can help students understand and use the language, and also students are able to gain a positive attitude toward language learning.

Sofia, ATH/GREECE

2018-09-28 11:51:16 UTC

I'm a preschool teacher and the last years my students more often are from different countries. I want to help them understand Greek without isolate them or make them feel unwelcome and I want to understand their own background and create a lesson appropriate for them too. After all we all live together every day and we are a great team!

Teresa Wisniewska

2018-09-28 12:19:57 UTC

explicit knowledge about language, and conscious perception and sensitivity in language learning, language teaching and language use is my speciality. I love foreign languages while learning, using and teaching them. The differences make me thrive.The similiarities provoke a smile and understanding. As much as languages I love meeting new people. And that may be the reason why the definition fits me right.

Laura Sgambelluri

2018-09-28 13:25:53 UTC

I feel that I am more and more aware of the dominance of the English language. I am a secondary EAL and FSL teacher in Canada and I worry that students don't feel their languages other than English, French belong in school.

Language awareness

2018-09-28 13:28:59 UTC

Mary from Italy
I think that language awareness is very important because student have to be the opportunity to interact with people of different countries in order to become conscious of their ability to use the language in many contexts . This will enrich their knowledge.

Elena from Italy

2018-09-28 14:25:56 UTC

That's an interesting start: thinking of the language awarness can be very important when you teach a foreign language.

Raffaella from Italy

raffaturbi1 — 2018-09-28 15:15:53 UTC

I’m a Secondary School teacher in an evening course. Many students come from all above the world, in particular from latin America, Africa and Asia.
They have different cultures, ages and experiences.
So I think it is very important to reflect on language awareness in this context, and I’m trying to improve it.

I am a teacher in an school for foreigners. i think

2018-09-28 15:18:44 UTC

my students help me to become more and more a language-aware teacher, they are inspiring me and my collegues,
Cristina from Italy

Cristina , Romania

2018-09-28 15:20:06 UTC

I teach the native language. A lot of kids are from other countries and it's difficult them to make me understood and receive exactly my message. I guess this course an opportunity.

Silvia from Italy

2018-09-28 15:21:52 UTC

I'm a secondary school teacher of Spanish as a foreign language for Italians. I recognise that my students' proficiency in speaking Spanish really depends on their skills in Italian as their mother tongue. The more accurate they are in Italian, the easier is for me to teach them good Spanish.

Paola - Madrid

2018-09-28 15:26:10 UTC

As a primary school teacher in the Italian school abroad, in Spain, I have to cope daily with awareness in language, as the teaching language in the school is Italian, while almost all the pupils are Spanish mother tongue. It's a challenge, but also a rich and outstanding learning environment. I like it SOO much

Deshwinder Kaur. India

2018-09-28 15:48:38 UTC

Hello I'm alpha teacher . I think it is very important to use more than one languages for improving my language skills. I'm alpha teacher of Punjabi and social Study. And it will help me to become a good teacher.

Nadina NICOLICI, Romania

n_nadina — 2018-09-28 15:52:27 UTC

I teach English and French in a high school, and even if my students speak only their mother tongue, I try to make them language aware. They should spot and understand the differences between the languages they learn / know as this helps them become more tolerant, more aware, and it develops their critical thinking and their cultural awareness.

Daniela, Macedonia

danibosh — 2018-09-28 16:21:56 UTC

Hi, I teach English language to young learners. I'm just wondering: is language awareness important just in learning, teaching and use of foreign languages? because "conscious perception and sensitivity" in learning happens when children are learning their mother language, too. What do you think?

Anabela Vieira, from Portugal

2018-09-28 16:24:16 UTC

Hi I'm an English Teacher in a Basic School. I teach students between 6 and 12 years old.
As a language teacher , I know and feel that there is much more to a language than simply knowing vocabulary and grammar and reproducing them in either written or oral form. Becoming aware of the nuances and meanings of a language is part of language learning. By increasing students’ language awareness, the students are better able to understand, appreciate and use the language. I way to motivate my students' is envolving them in projects with other countries (European) - eTwinning Projects.

VINCENZO, REGGIO CALABRIA. I'm a teacher of art and design, for me is important to transfer, accross the different shapes of Art, emotions and wonder in to my pupils.

2018-09-28 16:26:00 UTC

Sofia, Portugal

2018-09-28 16:34:32 UTC

Hello! It's becoming more and more necessary for me, teaching in a globalised world to be language-aware and help my students to use language as an effective means of Communication. As a teacher of English as a foreign Language, I've noticed in multiple occasions that students that speak a different mother togue than the one used in school can transfer that knowledge and use the same strategies when learning a third language. So that is a starting point for me, to get the students to take advantage of that knowledge and reuse it. But I would love to find out more about the subject and learn how to become more Language-aware.

Ilaria, Bologna - Italy

2018-09-28 16:42:13 UTC

Hi. I'm a special teacher of secondary school and I like to know more about LA for being a better teacher for the students that I help and also for the foreign students that very frequently are in the classes of my school, mostly from China, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

2018-09-28 16:44:20 UTC

Hi, I'm an English teacher in a secondary school, I've noticed that the most difficult thing is increase students' curiosity about what language ca under grammar rules and literary topics.

Gregorio, Falcone (ME)- Sicily - Italy

2018-09-28 16:59:50 UTC

My name is Gregorio, I live in a falcon (ME). I am an electronics teacher at a second grade technical school. My goal is to be able to transfer the basic concepts of my subject into the L2 language.

Message in a bottle from a survivor: I’ve been one of these learners….(from Italy)

2018-09-28 18:13:29 UTC

Hi, I’m Silvana and I teach chemistry in an Italian Technical High School.

I feel I’m a language aware teacher (not a perfect one!!!). I think my experience in this field is not related to training, but more to my past story. As a child, a teen and adult I have spent time studying and living in different countries. I have experienced on my one skin language awareness to survive!!!

Now that I’m a teacher I can understand the needs of a common underlying proficiency to integrate different learners. I think it is highly important to be a “language-aware” teacher, because of the internationalization of schools and the requirement to integrate learners with special needs.

I think I still have the necessity to be trained in this field, because as I said above my experience is from my own life. I have to improve my “Language awareness”!!!

2018-09-28 19:17:04 UTC

Lina, Messina

Hi , everybody

I’m a teacher of Italian Literature and History in a Secondary school in Sicily. I think Language awareness is very important because develop critical thinking . In my class, this year, there some students of different nationalities with different linguistic needs . I use different methods to help them. I think it's essential that teachers use different languages to offer good opportunities of learning to the students

Cinzia Centrone, Italy

centrone_cinzia — 2018-09-28 20:45:59 UTC

Hi, I'm Cinzia. I teach in a secondary school. In my classroom there are 3 students that come from Finlandia, Honduras and Turkey, they don't speak Italian. I need Know methods that can help us to communicate. So I think language awareness very important. I would like to be able to build language awareness.

Fabrizio, Genova

2018-09-29 04:53:19 UTC

Hello, I am a teacher at a high school in Genoa (Italy) and in my classes there are many foreign students, from South America, from the Far East and from India.
I feel the need to know the operative methods to integrate these students in the activities. I chose to participate in this course, to learn how to design functional and effective teaching actions.

Dina, Verona

2018-09-29 06:37:59 UTC

I'm a primary school math teacher. An awareness of the weight of the language seems to me very important. In my class there are many foreign students, My students encounter many difficulties when the mathematical concepts are transmitted through the language and not only through numbers and procedures alone. For example in problems. I am desperately looking for a way to help them overcome this difficulty.

Kelly, Denmark

2018-09-29 07:04:47 UTC

I am a science teacher in an international school. I have some skills in drawing out connections between languages and underlying skills, but only with intermediate (and above) English speakers. I find it hard to reach beginners and non-beginners other than saying "hmm, have you looked it up in your own language to see if it makes more sense?"

Christina, Finland

2018-09-29 07:20:28 UTC

I have studied about language awareness before and consider it an essential part of a teacher's work. In today's world many students have more than one language and their stronger language (home language) can be different to that of the school. It is very important that the teacher allows and explores with the students those different ways of thinking (concepts, sayings etc.) with the students. This brings out students' capasities and possibilities fully. This also provides tools against marginalization and experiences of social exclusion. What I personally need to develope in myself is paying constant attention to moments where I and the students can be more aware of language diversity.

Marina, Italy

maricos001 — 2018-09-29 08:23:42 UTC

I'm a teacher of English at High Secondary School in the north west of Italy. My students are 14-18 and they study three foreign languages: English, French and either German or Spanish. I am also a teacher of Italian as a Second Language. I think developing language awareness in students is very important.

Ilaria, Italy

2018-09-29 09:56:14 UTC

As a teacher I’m aware that my students will have more difficulties to study in italian if they speak other languages at home or if they have arrived in Italy only recently. I see it on myself when I attend this kind of courses, I love the english language and I never stop to try to improve it, but still things take longer time to be processed as they are not written and explained in italian.

Monica , Romania

aro_monica — 2018-09-29 10:01:09 UTC

As an English teacher I strongly believe that languages are an impoartnat part of everyone's life. We need languages to express ourselves, to discover the world around us, to be proficient and to socialise.

isabelle_couto — 2018-09-29 10:11:36 UTC

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2018-09-29 10:34:04 UTC

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Aurelio, Ital

2018-09-29 10:43:45 UTC

As a math teacher I think language is important to communicate in the specific fields. Specific terms can help to improve the communication with all the students

Matanat Ahadova/ Azerbaijan

ahadovamatanat2 — 2018-09-29 10:51:22 UTC

I teach an English teacher at Baku European Lyceum , The students have a hardship with the understanding the language and have a complex to speak and communicate. I think they don`t have a motivation to speak in foreign languages

DESHWINDER KAUR /INDIA

2018-09-29 11:02:02 UTC

HELLO I AM ALPHA TEACHER . AND I TEACH PUNJABI AND SOCIAL STUDY .AND I THINK LANGUAGE AWARENESS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR A TEACHER WHO TEACH MULTIPLE LANGUAGES.

Tiziana Panaro Casamassima-Bari Italy

tizianapanaro — 2018-09-29 11:58:55 UTC

I have been a teacher of English AFL in Italy for a long time and also a CLIL teacher of English with Maths. I've always felt that being conscious of language awareness is vital for teaching and learning. Also, I believe the linguistic abilities must go together with the communicative, paralinguistic, cultural aspects of a foreign language.I am currently starting a project on teaching Italian AFL to a group of Georgian adults. I am sure I need to learn more about language awareness and I'm glad to share my ideas with you all.

Raúl C.. Spain

2018-09-29 13:10:22 UTC

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Sheila Corwin Florence, Italy

2018-09-29 14:24:44 UTC

I am an English language teacher trainer in Florence, Italy and work with lots of teachers from all parts of Europe. It is important to be a language aware teacher because there are, fortunately, many languages used in the world. Language is a part of everyone's identity and it important to respect and understand the differences. I often let students speak in their mother tongues in my classroom especially if they are at an A1 or A2 level according to the CEFR. We all need to be language aware and keep in mind that we are all very intimate with our mother tongues.

Vincenza R. - Salerno Italy

2018-09-29 15:01:04 UTC

I think I'm probabily a LA teacher because I've experienced Cummins' Theory by myself: when I was a student at the University I've studied for about one year in England at the University of Kent. There I realize the divergency between BICS and CALP. Now I'm a teacher and I clearly see the relevance to be LA in today society where a lot of people move from their own country to another because of different reasons and multiculturalism and special Education needs are so widespread.

Tiziana Diso

tiziana_diso — 2018-09-29 15:41:54 UTC

ItalyI teach Englis
h in a middle school and I do not have kids from other countries. My kids love studying languages through online videoconferences with foreign students where English is the vehicular language. Sometimes it happens that I must create a bridge between the cultural diversity of the children they come into contact with and the different ways in which language must change and adapt to their background and vice versa. I think that speaking a language like English and contextualizing it according to the interlocutor's country of reference is an important step for linguistic awareness. I try to do that but I hope to better my strategies.

VANESSA RIDOLFI, Italy

vanessa_ridolfi — 2018-09-29 15:45:45 UTC

I teach English at high school in Italy, and my "subject" makes me naturally aware of the language awareness. In case I don't know my students' language, I use English as the vehicular language to find a contact with the person I have in front of me (trying at the beginning of letting him/her speak about his/her original culture)

IRENE S. ITALY

2018-09-29 17:05:38 UTC

I’m a primary Math and English teacher. I think that LA is very important if you use CLIL methodology at school so that students can be more confident while they are learning a content using a foreign language.

Shukufa Najafova

shukufa_n — 2018-09-29 17:18:38 UTC

Ismailli, Azerbaijan
Hi all. At first want to welcome you and wish all success in this course. I am from Ismailli, Azerbaijan. My name is Shukufa and surname is Najafova. I teach at secondary school #1 named after Israil Hasanov. I teach English at school. I teach from 1st till 11th grades. All time I try to speak to my students in English during the lesson. Sometimes students have difficulty in speaking . They have complexity for this. They are shy to express their thoughts. But some students do this with great pleasure. I always try to make my students speak English during the lesson.I think if we do this continuously then our students will do their best for learning how to tell their opinion to others in English

Denis

dens_lec14 — 2018-09-29 17:20:25 UTC

Denis L

dens_lec14 — 2018-09-29 17:20:27 UTC

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dens_lec14 — 2018-09-29 17:20:28 UTC

Denis L,France

dens_lec14 — 2018-09-29 17:20:30 UTC

The oral classroom must be developed and valued as a practice and means of communication because it allows to express his imagination. For many students, it is also a good support for perception and learning. Students remember better an idea or a notion they have already said.

For me, the student has the right to make an oral mistake because the important thing is to communicate and to be understood.

Classroom oral expression is also essential in the construction of knowledge as it allows teachers to check and evaluate student understanding through participation and debate.

Nataliia Khlivna, Ukraine

2018-09-29 18:04:20 UTC

Hello from Ukraine! My name is Nataliia and I am an English teacher. I believe that English is a tool at my lessons. I want my students to use their native tongue as less as possible. If something is not clear I explain it in other words but in English. I believe this is the only way to submerge students into learning environment. Moreover, it helps to develop life skills like communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking.

Emilia,Romania

teacherro — 2018-09-29 19:26:19 UTC

Hi! I am also an English teacher.I love languages and I think they develop you personally and make you understand better other culture.Yes, I don't know if I am a language aware teacher, I will discover during this course.I 've noticed nowadays, being surrounded by technology it's easier for students to learn a language independently.Most of them use the language for social interaction while chatting on the internet or when playing games.Of course it's not a proper language /vocabulary they use during their interaction but they are happy they use a foreign language and they manage to make themselves understood.It's a first step to see language in real life situations because my students don't travel abroad or they don't use English in the street.

Aleksandra, Macedonia

anecvetanovska — 2018-09-29 20:19:05 UTC

Hi! I am an English teacher and I like all the language games where in non-formal communication pupils use the language they feel deeply inside. If a pupil is bilingual sometimes he/she needs time to express properly in English cos he/she is aware of the language diversity. Being able to be language aware is certainly an asset.

Jose Teixeira, PT

2018-09-29 21:59:02 UTC

I am a teacher of languages. I have been teaching for more than 20 years and I really feel like a language-aware teacher. For me to learn a language is a challenge and it never ends, because we are learning every day. I try to enncourage my students to learn new languages, aprt from English because we live a divers society.

Hi everybody! I'm Computer Science teacher in a secondary school. I'm lucky because Computer Science has the same vocabulary all over the world. In my classrooms there are students speaking different languages, but a lot of contents in my discipline have the same standard all over the world. In the world of computer English is the common factor, so this can help me to begin a language aware teacher.

2018-09-30 01:01:20 UTC

Sofia Tsigara, Greece

softsigara — 2018-09-30 05:44:55 UTC

Hello, I'm a kindergarten teacher in Volos, Greece. Last year I had a girl from Spain, so I learned some words to communicate with her and feel more confidend. HOLA

Melissa Leyshon, Malta

2018-09-30 06:22:54 UTC

This year I will be teaching English in Primary year 3, however I have been in education for the last 8 years. My understanding of language awareness is limited to my country's natural adoption and adaptation of two languages Maltese and English. Which are in essence extremely different. I would like to further develop, with the help of this course an understanding of how each language develops in it's own right and how to encourage this. As the main issue I have in my classroom is that children speak English using Maltese syntax.

Rosa Agneta, Italy

rosaagneta — 2018-09-30 09:19:57 UTC

Hello, I'm science teacher in secondary school. I would like to further develop the critical thinking of students by understanding and using foreign language. In addition, I think that the CLIL methodology is a great opportunity for scientific study in classroom.

Latife Çeri,Turkey

2018-09-30 09:24:21 UTC

Hi,
I feel myself like a language-aware teacher but my pupils don't.It is really important because life is changing quickly and people change their counrtries and language diversity occurs.For instance in my classes,
I have kurdish,arabic,syrian and persian also turkish pupils.Their moher tongue is different and our common language is English and in this point I need help how to motivate them.

Emanuela, Italy

2018-09-30 10:33:24 UTC

I want to discover during this course , if I am an english awareness teacher.

Minka, Bulgaria

sminamin — 2018-09-30 11:23:50 UTC

Nowadays the world becomes more and more international and every school becomes a mix of cultures of all over the world. Like a teacher in a primary school, I think it is very important for my students to become aware of languages. I believe that it is our responsability to make learning more enjoyable. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to allow students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves.

Language a

omishachhabra100 — 2018-09-30 11:50:42 UTC

Language awar

omishachhabra100 — 2018-09-30 11:54:31 UTC

Aim of language awareness

2018-09-30 11:56:40 UTC

I Think that is very necessary for everybody try to improve foreign languages'knolewdge

Language awareness is a art of communication

omishachhabra100 — 2018-09-30 11:57:57 UTC

I omisha wish all success in this course. As we live in a global world, so language become

Nicoletta , Italy

2018-09-30 12:00:09 UTC

I am a primary school teacher, I teach Math, Science and English. I started this new year with two 1th classes and at once I started to speak English with them in an informal way. I think is very important to create an environment where the foreign Language is perceived as an instrument of real interaction and not exclusively as a discipline. I want in this course to increase my Language awareness and try to do all of my best.

Language awareness is an art of communication

omishachhabra100 — 2018-09-30 12:16:33 UTC

Hi, omisha wish all success in this course. I am a alpha teacher, from India. As we live in a global world so language becomes a tool for critical thinking and communication. I need to develop my skills, knowledge and comfortable level among various languages so that I can increase the thinking, concentration level of my students also.

Lucia, Romania

birlea_lucia — 2018-09-30 12:38:58 UTC

Hi! I'm from Romania and I teach romanian language at secondary school. I like languages and I want to learn foreign language.

Μarianthi Arvanitidou-Greece

1canislupus22 — 2018-09-30 12:39:05 UTC

I think that language is the most important thing to communicate. But there are so many other ways to express youself as body movements feelings

Maria Grazia, Italy

tecnologica — 2018-09-30 12:41:04 UTC

HI, I’m an Italian primary school teacher. I started teaching about twenty years ago. I don’t know if I feel like a language-aware teacher but I have been always fascinated by foreign languages and cultures. In these years the world in general is changed and more than before it’s necessary to be a language-aware teacher. We meet children and their families coming from different countries every day, so we need to be an open minded person. Knowing a foreign language and culture broadens our horizon.

Giusy, Italy

2018-09-30 12:44:49 UTC

Hi, I'm at my first experience teaching English in primary school. I think that linguistic awareness is fundamental for teachers and for pupils. I hope this course will be useful for starting a CLIL business in the coming years.

Language awareness is a

omishachhabra100 — 2018-09-30 13:04:53 UTC

Elisa, Italy

2018-09-30 13:06:11 UTC

Hi, I'm a native French teacher in secondary school.
As I switch all the time from a language to another, I think that language awarness is necessary and fundamental.

Lucia

2018-09-30 13:08:32 UTC

HI, I 'm a primary school teacher, I teach English in seven classes from first to fifth. I think that linguistic awareness is important to widen the knowledge of my students.

Mihaela

2018-09-30 13:19:31 UTC

Hi! I'm a pre-primary school teacher and usually I aply in the activities CLIL method.

Mariella, Italy

mariella_brunaz — 2018-09-30 13:58:09 UTC

I hope to be a language-aware teacher, anyway I know that it’s not always easy to identify the pupils’ needs without a careful observation carried out by all the teachers of the class and the comparison of those observations during the teachers’ class meetings. I also think that it is important to make students language aware to help them gain a positive attitude towards language learning. They have to learn that if they want to master the language they have to make attempts or take risks. It is fundamental to provide students with learning strategies that can make language acquisition easier so that, they can become active during lessons and more responsible for their own learning.

Helen, Spain

helen119 — 2018-09-30 14:15:56 UTC

I think that I am a language aware teacher. I am a native speaker of English who teachers English in Spain. I am constantly using my L2 to teach my students my L1. Through teaching, I am constantly aware that my BICS are much better than my CALP (in Spanish). Using my L2 to teach my L1 makes me constantly language aware. As teachers, we must be language aware because the success of our role depends entirely on communication.

I’d like to be a language aware for my pupils, but I haven’t enough English language knowledge. But, I try to include English in my classes trying to transmit the importance of being in touch with other languages and my good feelings of understanding people who don’t speak in the same language I usually do.

2018-09-30 15:02:07 UTC

Emanuela, Italy

2018-09-30 15:11:19 UTC

Hello, I'm Emanuela, I teach Italian, History and Geography (Secondary school - first degree). I live in Italy and I like to travel: I believe that linguistic diversity is not a limit but a great wealth of which we must all be aware.

Albert, Catalonia

apanade4 — 2018-09-30 15:46:28 UTC

Hi everyone, I'm Albert and I'm a teacher of Vocational and Educational Training.
I want to become a language-awareness teacher, because sometimes at my classroom converge pupils from different countries and it's difficult for them to learn technical words even in L1. So we need to be realistic and be aware what future are waiting for us in terms of teaching.

Daniela, Italy

2018-09-30 15:50:42 UTC

Hi, I'm Daniela, Maths teacher in a secondary school. I consider myself a language -aware teacher even in L1. Nowadays multilingualism is common in schools: I think that teachers must have some sociolinguistics notions in order to help foreing students fill the gap between their L1 and another language.

Hi, I'm Sabrina, I work with students with special needs. I hope to improve my competences and become a language-awareness teacher in order to help my foreign students.

sabrina_poli — 2018-09-30 15:55:28 UTC

Alma, Croatia

2018-09-30 16:05:02 UTC

I am Computer science teacher in a primary school in Croatia, my students are between 11 and 15 and I have been teaching for 21 years. I'm traying to improve my English because my subject uses a lot of English words. For that I traying to become a CLIL teacher. Also, we are living in a global world, it is necessry to develop LA as an important part of our proffessional teacher development plan.

Paolo, Italy

2018-09-30 16:29:19 UTC

I teach History and Philosophy at an Italian high-school.
I think that it's very important to be a language-aware teacher because in this way you can show to your students how they can see the world; how the different linguistic points of view can improve their comprehension of the life. In my opinion in this way it's possible to understand in depth different cultures and to develop good relationships with pepole of other countries

Alessandra, Italy

2018-09-30 16:58:21 UTC

I'm a primary school teacher and I work with pupils coming from many countries of the world. I think it's important to improve competences and become a language aware teacher because you can understand their different cultures, traditions, life style. It's a good opportunity to share relationships with them.

2018-09-30 17:34:22 UTC

Alessandra, Italy Alessandra, Italy I'm a primary school teacher and I work with pupils coming from many countries of the world. I think it's important to improve competences and become a language aware teacher because you can understand their different cultures, traditions, life style. It's a good opportunity to share relationships with them. Paolo, Italy Paolo, Italy I teach History and Philosophy at an Italian high-school. I think that it's very important to be a language-aware teacher because in this way you can show to your students how they can see the world; how the different linguistic points of view can improve their comprehension of the life. In my opinion in this way it's possible to understand in depth different cultures and to develop good relationships with pepole of other countries Alma, Croatia Alma, Croatia I am Computer science teacher in a primary school in Croatia, my students are between 11 and 15 and I have been teaching for 21 years. I'm traying to improve my English because my subject uses a lot of English words. For that I traying to become a CLIL teacher. Also, we are living in a global world, it is necessry to develop LA as an important part of our proffessional teacher development plan. Hi, I'm Sabrina, I work with students with special needs. I hope to improve my competences and become a language-awareness teacher in order to help my foreign students. Hi, I'm Sabrina, I work with students with special needs. I hope to improve my competences and become a language-awareness teacher in order to help my foreign students. Daniela, Italy Daniela, Italy Hi, I'm Daniela, Maths teacher in a secondary school. I consider myself a language -aware teacher even in L1. Nowadays multilingualism is common in schools: I think that teachers must have some sociolinguistics notions in order to help foreing students fill the gap between their L1 and another language. Albert, Catalonia Albert, Catalonia Hi everyone, I'm Albert and I'm a teacher of Vocational and Educational Training. I want to become a language-awareness teacher, because sometimes at my classroom converge pupils from different countries and it's difficult for them to learn technical words even in L1. So we need to be realistic and be aware what future are waiting for us in terms of teaching. Emanuela, Italy Emanuela, Italy Hello, I'm Emanuela, I teach Italian, History and Geography (Secondary school - first degree). I live in Italy and I like to travel: I believe that linguistic diversity is not a limit but a great wealth of which we must all be aware. I’d like to be a language aware for my pupils, but I haven’t enough English language knowledge. But, I try to include English in my classes trying to transmit the importance of being in touch with other languages and my good feelings of understanding people who don’t speak in the same language I usually do. I’d like to be a language aware for my pupils, but I haven’t enough English language knowledge. But, I try to include English in my classes trying to transmit the importance of being in touch with other languages and my good feelings of understanding people who don’t speak in the same language I usually do. Helen, Spain Helen, Spain I think that I am a language aware teacher. I am a native speaker of English who teachers English in Spain. I am constantly using my L2 to teach my students my L1. Through teaching, I am constantly aware that my BICS are much better than my CALP (in Spanish). Using my L2 to teach my L1 makes me constantly language aware. As teachers, we must be language aware because the success of our role depends entirely on communication. Mariella, Italy Mariella, Italy I hope to be a language-aware teacher, anyway I know that it’s not always easy to identify the pupils’ needs without a careful observation carried out by all the teachers of the class and the comparison of those observations during the teachers’ class meetings. I also think that it is important to make students language aware to help them gain a positive attitude towards language learning. They have to learn that if they want to master the language they have to make attempts or take risks. It is fundamental to provide students with learning strategies that can make language acquisition easier so that, they can become active during lessons and more responsible for their own learning. Mihaela Mihaela Hi! I'm a pre-primary school teacher and usually I aply in the activities CLIL method. Language awareness is a Language awareness is a Giusy, Italy Giusy, Italy Hi, I'm at my first experience teaching English in primary school. I think that linguistic awareness is fundamental for teachers and for pupils. I hope this course will be useful for starting a CLIL business in the coming years. Lucia Lucia HI, I 'm a primary school teacher, I teach English in seven classes from first to fifth. I think that linguistic awareness is important to widen the knowledge of my students. Maria Grazia, Italy Maria Grazia, Italy HI, I’m an Italian primary school teacher. I started teaching about twenty years ago. I don’t know if I feel like a language-aware teacher but I have been always fascinated by foreign languages and cultures. In these years the world in general is changed and more than before it’s necessary to be a language-aware teacher. We meet children and their families coming from different countries every day, so we need to be an open minded person. Knowing a foreign language and culture broadens our horizon. Elisa, Italy Elisa, Italy Hi, I'm a native French teacher in secondary school. As I switch all the time from a language to another, I think that language awarness is necessary and fundamental. Μarianthi Arvanitidou-Greece Μarianthi Arvanitidou-Greece I think that language is the most important thing to communicate. But there are so many other ways to express youself as body movements feelings Lucia, Romania Lucia, Romania Hi! I'm from Romania and I teach romanian language at secondary school. I like languages and I want to learn foreign language. Language awareness is an art of communication Language awareness is an art of communication Hi, omisha wish all success in this course. I am a alpha teacher, from India. As we live in a global world so language becomes a tool for critical thinking and communication. I need to develop my skills, knowledge and comfortable level among various languages so that I can increase the thinking, concentration level of my students also. Nicoletta , Italy Nicoletta , Italy I am a primary school teacher, I teach Math, Science and English. I started this new year with two 1th classes and at once I started to speak English with them in an informal way. I think is very important to create an environment where the foreign Language is perceived as an instrument of real interaction and not exclusively as a discipline. I want in this course to increase my Language awareness and try to do all of my best. Language awareness is a art of communication Language awareness is a art of communication I omisha wish all success in this course. As we live in a global world, so language become Aim of language awareness Aim of language awareness I Think that is very necessary for everybody try to improve foreign languages'knolewdge Language awar Language awar Language a Language a Emanuela, Italy Emanuela, Italy I want to discover during this course , if I am an english awareness teacher. Latife Çeri,Turkey Latife Çeri,Turkey Hi, I feel myself like a language-aware teacher but my pupils don't.It is really important because life is changing quickly and people change their counrtries and language diversity occurs.For instance in my classes, I have kurdish,arabic,syrian and persian also turkish pupils.Their moher tongue is different and our common language is English and in this point I need help how to motivate them. Rosa Agneta, Italy Rosa Agneta, Italy Hello, I'm science teacher in secondary school. I would like to further develop the critical thinking of students by understanding and using foreign language. In addition, I think that the CLIL methodology is a great opportunity for scientific study in classroom. Melissa Leyshon, Malta Melissa Leyshon, Malta This year I will be teaching English in Primary year 3, however I have been in education for the last 8 years. My understanding of language awareness is limited to my country's natural adoption and adaptation of two languages Maltese and English. Which are in essence extremely different. I would like to further develop, with the help of this course an understanding of how each language develops in it's own right and how to encourage this. As the main issue I have in my classroom is that children speak English using Maltese syntax. Sofia Tsigara, Greece Sofia Tsigara, Greece Hello, I'm a kindergarten teacher in Volos, Greece. Last year I had a girl from Spain, so I learned some words to communicate with her and feel more confidend. HOLA Minka, Bulgaria Minka, Bulgaria Nowadays the world becomes more and more international and every school becomes a mix of cultures of all over the world. Like a teacher in a primary school, I think it is very important for my students to become aware of languages. I believe that it is our responsability to make learning more enjoyable. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to allow students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. Hi everybody! I'm Computer Science teacher in a secondary school. I'm lucky because Computer Science has the same vocabulary all over the world. In my classrooms there are students speaking different languages, but a lot of contents in my discipline have the same standard all over the world. In the world of computer English is the common factor, so this can help me to begin a language aware teacher. Hi everybody! I'm Computer Science teacher in a secondary school. I'm lucky because Computer Science has the same vocabulary all over the world. In my classrooms there are students speaking different languages, but a lot of contents in my discipline have the same standard all over the world. In the world of computer English is the common factor, so this can help me to begin a language aware teacher. Jose Teixeira, PT Jose Teixeira, PT I am a teacher of languages. I have been teaching for more than 20 years and I really feel like a language-aware teacher. For me to learn a language is a challenge and it never ends, because we are learning every day. I try to enncourage my students to learn new languages, aprt from English because we live a divers society. Aleksandra, Macedonis Aleksandra, Macedonis Hi! I am an English teacher and I like all the language games where in non-formal communication pupils use the language they feel deeply inside. If a pupil is bilingual sometimes he/she needs time to express properly in English cos he/she is aware of the language diversity. Being able to be language aware is certainly an asset. Emilia,Romania Emilia,Romania Hi! I am also an English teacher.I love languages and I think they develop you personally and make you understand better other culture.Yes, I don't know if I am a language aware teacher, I will discover during this course.I 've noticed nowadays, being surrounded by technology it's easier for students to learn a language independently.Most of them use the language for social interaction while chatting on the internet or when playing games.Of course it's not a proper language /vocabulary they use during their interaction but they are happy they use a foreign language and they manage to make themselves understood.It's a first step to see language in real life situations because my students don't travel abroad or they don't use English in the street. Nataliia Khlivna, Ukraine Nataliia Khlivna, Ukraine Hello from Ukraine! My name is Nataliia and I am an English teacher. I believe that English is a tool at my lessons. I want my students to use their native tongue as less as possible. If something is not clear I explain it in other words but in English. I believe this is the only way to submerge students into learning environment. Moreover, it helps to develop life skills like communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking. Denis Denis Denis L Denis L Denis L_ Denis L_ Denis L,France Denis L,France The oral classroom must be developed and valued as a practice and means of communication because it allows to express his imagination. For many students, it is also a good support for perception and learning. Students remember better an idea or a notion they have already said. For me, the student has the right to make an oral mistake because the important thing is to communicate and to be understood. Classroom oral expression is also essential in the construction of knowledge as it allows teachers to check and evaluate student understanding through participation and debate. Shukufa Najafova Shukufa Najafova Ismailli, Azerbaijan Hi all. At first want to welcome you and wish all success in this course. I am from Ismailli, Azerbaijan. My name is Shukufa and surname is Najafova. I teach at secondary school #1 named after Israil Hasanov. I teach English at school. I teach from 1st till 11th grades. All time I try to speak to my students in English during the lesson. Sometimes students have difficulty in speaking . They have complexity for this. They are shy to express their thoughts. But some students do this with great pleasure. I always try to make my students speak English during the lesson.I think if we do this continuously then our students will do their best for learning how to tell their opinion to others in English IRENE S. ITALY IRENE S. ITALY I’m a primary Math and English teacher. I think that LA is very important if you use CLIL methodology at school so that students can be more confident while they are learning a content using a foreign language. VANESSA RIDOLFI, Italy VANESSA RIDOLFI, Italy I teach English at high school in Italy, and my "subject" makes me naturally aware of the language awareness. In case I don't know my students' language, I use English as the vehicular language to find a contact with the person I have in front of me (trying at the beginning of letting him/her speak about his/her original culture) Tiziana Diso Tiziana Diso Italy I teach English in a middle school and I do not have kids from other countries. My kids love studying languages through online videoconferences with foreign students where English is the vehicular language. Sometimes it happens that I must create a bridge between the cultural diversity of the children they come into contact with and the different ways in which language must change and adapt to their background and vice versa. I think that speaking a language like English and contextualizing it according to the interlocutor's country of reference is an important step for linguistic awareness. I try to do that but I hope to better my strategies. Vincenza R. - Salerno Italy Vincenza R. - Salerno Italy I think I'm probabily a LA teacher because I've experienced Cummins' Theory by myself: when I was a student at the University I've studied for about one year in England at the University of Kent. There I realize the divergency between BICS and CALP. Now I'm a teacher and I clearly see the relevance to be LA in today society where a lot of people move from their own country to another because of different reasons and multiculturalism and special Education needs are so widespread. Sheila Corwin Florence, Italy Sheila Corwin Florence, Italy I am an English language teacher trainer in Florence, Italy and work with lots of teachers from all parts of Europe. It is important to be a language aware teacher because there are, fortunately, many languages used in the world. Language is a part of everyone's identity and it important to respect and understand the differences. I often let students speak in their mother tongues in my classroom especially if they are at an A1 or A2 level according to the CEFR. We all need to be language aware and keep in mind that we are all very intimate with our mother tongues. Raúl C.. Spain Raúl C.. Spain I aa physi Tiziana Panaro Casamassima-Bari Italy Tiziana Panaro Casamassima-Bari Italy I have been a teacher of English AFL in Italy for a long time and also a CLIL teacher of English with Maths. I've always felt that being conscious of language awareness is vital for teaching and learning. Also, I believe the linguistic abilities must go together with the communicative, paralinguistic, cultural aspects of a foreign language.I am currently starting a project on teaching Italian AFL to a group of Georgian adults. I am sure I need to learn more about language awareness and I'm glad to share my ideas with you all. DESHWINDER KAUR /INDIA DESHWINDER KAUR /INDIA HELLO I AM ALPHA TEACHER . AND I TEACH PUNJABI AND SOCIAL STUDY .AND I THINK LANGUAGE AWARENESS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR A TEACHER WHO TEACH MULTIPLE LANGUAGES. Matanat Ahadova/ Azerbaijan Matanat Ahadova/ Azerbaijan I teach an English teacher at Baku European Lyceum , The students have a hardship with the understanding the language and have a complex to speak and communicate. I think they don`t have a motivation to speak in foreign languages Aurelio, Ital Aurelio, Ital As a math teacher I think language is important to communicate in the specific fields. Specific terms can help to improve the communication with all the students N N Hi! 📎 European Schoolnet Academy (eunacademy) Monica , Romania Monica , Romania As an English teacher I strongly believe that languages are an impoartnat part of everyone's life. We need languages to express ourselves, to discover the world around us, to be proficient and to socialise. Ilaria, Italy Ilaria, Italy As a teacher I’m aware that my students will have more difficulties to study in italian if they speak other languages at home or if they have arrived in Italy only recently. I see it on myself when I attend this kind of courses, I love the english language and I never stop to try to improve it, but still things take longer time to be processed as they are not written and explained in italian. Marina, Italy Marina, Italy I'm a teacher of English at High Secondary School in the north west of Italy. My students are 14-18 and they study three foreign languages: English, French and either German or Spanish. I am also a teacher of Italian as a Second Language. I think developing language awareness in students is very important. Christina, Finland Christina, Finland I have studied about language awareness before and consider it an essential part of a teacher's work. In today's world many students have more than one language and their stronger language (home language) can be different to that of the school. It is very important that the teacher allows and explores with the students those different ways of thinking (concepts, sayings etc.) with the students. This brings out students' capasities and possibilities fully. This also provides tools against marginalization and experiences of social exclusion. What I personally need to develope in myself is paying constant attention to moments where I and the students can be more aware of language diversity. Kelly, Denmark Kelly, Denmark I am a science teacher in an international school. I have some skills in drawing out connections between languages and underlying skills, but only with intermediate (and above) English speakers. I find it hard to reach beginners and non-beginners other than saying "hmm, have you looked it up in your own language to see if it makes more sense?" Dina, Verona Dina, Verona I'm a primary school math teacher. An awareness of the weight of the language seems to me very important. In my class there are many foreign students, My students encounter many difficulties when the mathematical concepts are transmitted through the language and not only through numbers and procedures alone. For example in problems. I am desperately looking for a way to help them overcome this difficulty. Fabrizio, Genova Fabrizio, Genova Hello, I am a teacher at a high school in Genoa (Italy) and in my classes there are many foreign students, from South America, from the Far East and from India. I feel the need to know the operative methods to integrate these students in the activities. I chose to participate in this course, to learn how to design functional and effective teaching actions. Cinzia Centrone, Italy Cinzia Centrone, Italy Hi, I'm Cinzia. I teach in a secondary school. In my classroom there are 3 students that come from Finlandia, Honduras and Turkey, they don't speak Italian. I need Know methods that can help us to communicate. So I think language awareness very important. I would like to be able to build language awareness. Lina Lina, Messina Hi , everybody I’m a teacher of Italian Literature and History in a Secondary school in Sicily. I think Language awareness is very important because develop critical thinking . In my class, this year, there some students of different nationalities with different linguistic needs . I use different methods to help them. I think it's essential that teachers use different languages to offer good opportunities of learning to the students Message in a bottle from a survivor: I’ve been one of these learners….(from Italy) Message in a bottle from a survivor: I’ve been one of these learners….(from Italy) Hi, I’m Silvana and I teach chemistry in an Italian Technical High School. I feel I’m a language aware teacher (not a perfect one!!!). I think my experience in this field is not related to training, but more to my past story. As a child, a teen and adult I have spent time studying and living in different countries. I have experienced on my one skin language awareness to survive!!! Now that I’m a teacher I can understand the needs of a common underlying proficiency to integrate different learners. I think it is highly important to be a “language-aware” teacher, because of the internationalization of schools and the requirement to integrate learners with special needs. I think I still have the necessity to be trained in this field, because as I said above my experience is from my own life. I have to improve my “Language awareness”!!! Gregorio, Falcone (ME)- Sicily - Italy Gregorio, Falcone (ME)- Sicily - Italy My name is Gregorio, I live in a falcon (ME). I am an electronics teacher at a second grade technical school. My goal is to be able to transfer the basic concepts of my subject into the L2 language. Ilaria, Bologna - Italy Ilaria, Bologna - Italy Hi. I'm a special teacher of secondary school and I like to know more about LA for being a better teacher for the students that I help and also for the foreign students that very frequently are in the classes of my school, mostly from China, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Hi, I'm an English t Hi, I'm an English teacher in a secondary school, I've noticed that the most difficult thing is increase students' curiosity about what language ca under grammar rules and literary topics. Sofia, Portugal Sofia, Portugal Hello! It's becoming more and more necessary for me, teaching in a globalised world to be language-aware and help my students to use language as an effective means of Communication. As a teacher of English as a foreign Language, I've noticed in multiple occasions that students that speak a different mother togue than the one used in school can transfer that knowledge and use the same strategies when learning a third language. So that is a starting point for me, to get the students to take advantage of that knowledge and reuse it. But I would love to find out more about the subject and learn how to become more Language-aware. VINCENZO, REGGIO CALABRIA. I'm a teacher of art and design, for me is important to transfer, accross the different shapes of Art, emotions and wonder in to my pupils. VINCENZO, REGGIO CALABRIA. I'm a teacher of art and design, for me is important to transfer, accross the different shapes of Art, emotions and wonder in to my pupils. Anabela Vieira, from Portugal Anabela Vieira, from Portugal Hi I'm an English Teacher in a Basic School. I teach students between 6 and 12 years old. As a language teacher , I know and feel that there is much more to a language than simply knowing vocabulary and grammar and reproducing them in either written or oral form. Becoming aware of the nuances and meanings of a language is part of language learning. By increasing students’ language awareness, the students are better able to understand, appreciate and use the language. I way to motivate my students' is envolving them in projects with other countries (European) - eTwinning Projects. Daniela, Macedonia Daniela, Macedonia Hi, I teach English language to young learners. I'm just wondering: is language awareness important just in learning, teaching and use of foreign languages? because "conscious perception and sensitivity" in learning happens when children are learning their mother language, too. What do you think? Nadina NICOLICI, Romania Nadina NICOLICI, Romania I teach English and French in a high school, and even if my students speak only their mother tongue, I try to make them language aware. They should spot and understand the differences between the languages they learn / know as this helps them become more tolerant, more aware, and it develops their critical thinking and their cultural awareness. Deshwinder Kaur. India Deshwinder Kaur. India Hello I'm alpha teacher . I think it is very important to use more than one languages for improving my language skills. I'm alpha teacher of Punjabi and social Study. And it will help me to become a good teacher. Paola - Madrid Paola - Madrid As a primary school teacher in the Italian school abroad, in Spain, I have to cope daily with awareness in language, as the teaching language in the school is Italian, while almost all the pupils are Spanish mother tongue. It's a challenge, but also a rich and outstanding learning environment. I like it SOO much Silvia from Italy Silvia from Italy I'm a secondary school teacher of Spanish as a foreign language for Italians. I recognise that my students' proficiency in speaking Spanish really depends on their skills in Italian as their mother tongue. The more accurate they are in Italian, the easier is for me to teach them good Spanish. Cristina , Romania Cristina , Romania I teach the native language. A lot of kids are from other countries and it's difficult them to make me understood and receive exactly my message. I guess this course an opportunity. I am a teacher in an school for foreigners. i think I am a teacher in an school for foreigners. i think my students help me to become more and more a language-aware teacher, they are inspiring me and my collegues, Cristina from Italy Raffaella from Italy Raffaella from Italy I’m a Secondary School teacher in an evening course. Many students come from all above the world, in particular from latin America, Africa and Asia. They have different cultures, ages and experiences. So I think it is very important to reflect on language awareness in this context, and I’m trying to improve it. Elena from Italy Elena from Italy That's an interesting start: thinking of the language awarness can be very important when you teach a foreign language. Language awareness Language awareness Mary from Italy I think that language awareness is very important because student have to be the opportunity to interact with people of different countries in order to become conscious of their ability to use the language in many contexts . This will enrich their knowledge. Laura Sgambelluri Laura Sgambelluri I feel that I am more and more aware of the dominance of the English language. I am a secondary EAL and FSL teacher in Canada and I worry that students don't feel their languages other than English, French belong in school. Teresa Wisniewska Teresa Wisniewska explicit knowledge about language, and conscious perception and sensitivity in language learning, language teaching and language use is my speciality. I love foreign languages while learning, using and teaching them. The differences make me thrive.The similiarities provoke a smile and understanding. As much as languages I love meeting new people. And that may be the reason why the definition fits me right. Sofia, ATH/GREECE Sofia, ATH/GREECE I'm a preschool teacher and the last years my students more often are from different countries. I want to help them understand Greek without isolate them or make them feel unwelcome and I want to understand their own background and create a lesson appropriate for them too. After all we all live together every day and we are a great team! Hümeyra YENER/TURKEY Hümeyra YENER/TURKEY As a teacher, I’m trying to use English frequently but to tell the truth I’m not sure how I am aware of teacher language awareness. I feel like I have a good grasp of structures or grammar but I sometimes have difficulty in speaking fluently. I know language doesn’t only consist of vocabulary or grammar. With the help of this MOOC, I will be able to build language awareness in my classes. By increasing students’ language awareness, we can help students understand and use the language, and also students are able to gain a positive attitude toward language learning. I'm a technical teacher of Food and Beverage and I my hope is that students feels the importance of language for their future I'm a technical teacher of Food and Beverage and I my hope is that students feels the importance of language for their future Moisés Silva, Portugal Nuno, PT Nuno, PT I consider myself language aware and I understand the need to be it. I think is very motivating using more than one language in teaching, both for improving my language skills an to find empathy with my foreign students ( i work in a CPIA). I think is very motivating using more than one language in teaching, both for improving my language skills an to find empathy with my foreign students ( i work in a CPIA). Tec Tec Laura, Italy Laura, Italy As a teacher language awareness is very important because it helps you understand your students' learning process with the possible difficulties they may face. You are able to understand the reasons why students can face challenges in learning a language or through a language and you can support them with adequate tools/strategies. Krisnel, Italy Krisnel, Italy I am a teacher of technical subjects, so for me language has always been of great importance, in mechanics it must be unequivocal in meaning. Naturally one never stops learning and improving oneself, the society evolves and so the languages a comparison with the others always brings a personal and professional enrichment. what aspects of language awareness do you still need to develop? what aspects of language awareness do you still need to develop? Chiara, from Mantova, Italy. I would like to develop a method to make teens (15-22) more confident in speaking daily language especially abroad. My aim is to help students to reach this awareness autonomously, managing their own learning time, using excercises, slides, video mapping, skype call, social media, freeware tools, everything they would consider useful, building their learning togheter with me. The teacher in my dream will be a mean to an end/facilitator of learning I teach English in a primary school and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides it allows facing with people of different countries and cultures so that our pupils can extend their knowledge. I teach English in a primary school and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides it allows facing with people of different countries and cultures so that our pupils can extend their knowledge. Tiziana- Italy Tiziana- Italy I teach in a primary school and I really believe that language awareness is important for students since they are very Young. They should be put in the condition to know other languages and interact. Yasemin Uysal-Muğla/Turkey Yasemin Uysal-Muğla/Turkey I am the teacher of English in Yatağan,Muğla.I want to learn and teach language awareness to my students.I try to teach different things in the foreign language.I hope I will learn new information about language awareness in this MOOC Cemile-Turkey Cemile-Turkey I am preschool teacher. I want to show my pupils that language awareness is very important. I teach English in a primary school in Northern Italy. Most of my pupils are from other countries. English is the common language for them and helps them to find a real way to communicate and interact at school. Besides, I find that chidren born in Italy from foreign parents, or who learn Italian at school, but still speak their mother tongue at home, are more aware of differences and similarities when working together... I teach English in a primary school in Northern Italy. Most of my pupils are from other countries. English is the common language for them and helps them to find a real way to communicate and interact at school. Besides, I find that chidren born in Italy from foreign parents, or who learn Italian at school, but still speak their mother tongue at home, are more aware of differences and similarities when working together... Being language aware and language competent (Maria Rosaria - Italy) Being language aware and language competent (Maria Rosaria - Italy) Each person should aim to become language aware and language competent as much as each person should be aware of the tools he/she uses in order to perform actions in his/her life. That's why no matter the language we speak (L1 - L2 - LS - AL - etc.), we should acknowledge that language allows us to communicate and to negotiate meanings. As a teacher of Italian and History I rather feel language aware and I always offer my students the chance to focus on the language of the topics we are dealing with. Elisa-Italy Elisa-Italy I am a Business Teacher in a really multicultural school in the centre of Milan (Italy). Almost all my students are foreigners and some of them have just moved to Italy from coutries like The Philippines, Santo Domingo Syria and so on. It means that I NEED to become a language aware teacher. For this reason I am attending a Clil course and I want to improve and my capabilities to teach in L2. However that's not enough. In order to manage their different backgrounds I'd like to develop inclusive strategies that can help students to love both the italian culture and their own ones. Moreover I'd like my student to understand how beautiful is diversity and how important is fighting against xenophobia. I feel language awar I feel language awareness is deeply important, I’ve fallen in love of Cummings iceberg metaphore but.... I’m not able to explane how and I’m not sure to be a LA teacher.... Need studying animore.... Margaret - Poland Margaret - Poland In the place where I live there are no foreign students so I can't check if I am a language-aware teacher. But I want my school to develop and I want to show my students that language awareness is important. What they say, what words they use - it matters. Especially when they have contact with an English speaker. I want to learn more about the subject. Giselda Costa- Teresina-Piauí-Brazil Giselda Costa- Teresina-Piauí-Brazil The teacher who has language-aware can avoid linguistic prejudices within his class. It is necessary to know the verbal and nonverbal discourse (the body language) and to know how to read the image critically. A teacher who is ‘language aware’ understands why students face these difficulties and what they can do to support students. Camelia - Romania Camelia - Romania I am a history teacher at a primary school where there are also roma students. They, sometimes, don't even understand basic words from the language I'm teaching and being conscious of their difficulties I consider language awareness very important. LAURA PAGNOZZI LAURA PAGNOZZI Jesús (Spain) Jesús (Spain) I consider myself a language-aware teacher, surely due to the fact that I have been teaching for several years spoken languages (English in bilingual groups of students and French in school exchanges) and literary languages such as Latin and Greek. To my view using multilingual resources in our classrooms is a powerful tool for teaching and learning. I think I haven’t found disadvantages in this methodology so far. Perhaps I am an optimistic teacher and tend to focus only on benefits. Nicoleta- Romania Nicoleta- Romania I am a primary school teacher in a secondary school with over 750 students. We have a lot of kids who speak two different languages- Italian, Spanish, English, French- because they used to live a period of time with parents abroad. I strongly belive in the importance of language diversity and I hope to learn more from your experience. Vassiliki Boltsi, Greece Vassiliki Boltsi, Greece As a foreign language teacher I am full aware of Language awareness. Another reason is that South European countries have received many immigrants and Greece is one of these. Classes have become multilingual. Maura, Italy Maura, Italy I Maria Rita, Italy Maria Rita, Italy I am an English teacher. I became a language-aware student during an internship as teacher in an italian language school for foreigners. So I think I am a language-aware teacher. During that experience I realized the fact that each student has a completely different background and the teachers needed to be prepared and aware of that to start the language learning path. Despite my experience, I am sure I need to improve my awareness and to learn new methods and strategies to help the students to be proud of their mother language while they’re learning a new one. Miriam- Madrid Miriam- Madrid I’m an italian primary school teacher. I have taught in Madrid for two years in an italian school with spanish children. Before I moved here, I taught in a multicultural school in Rome for almost twenty years. So, I think I developed a language awareness to answer the needs of my pupils coming form different countries of the world. In particular, in Rome, teaching italian as second language to migrants pupils, I worked to they acquire comunication skills, but also academic language to face better middle school. Now, teaching italian as a stranger language in a spanish contest, I'm working overall to educate to metalinguistic skills. Italian is not a second language here in Madrid, so my students play, communicate and speech all day in spanish and they exercise italian language only in the school with the teachers. So, the first need here is to improve metalinguistic awareness to control better the use of these two languages, that are also very similar. Therefore, I try to work on difference between spanish and italian but also on the common underlying proficiencies Cristina,Italy Cristina,Italy I have been teaching languages for 22 years, because I'm an Italian and Latin teacher in Secondary school. I'm very fond of the language, its components. For long time I wasn't a language aware teacher, because I taught my subjects only to Italian students. When I met CLIL methodology, I discovered something new also in my usual way to teach. Furthermore , in the last years, I had to cope with students coming from a lot of different country of Europe and not only and , mostly, I had to learn English that I had abandoned more than twenty years ago. Classrooms are more and more full of stranger students and I think that being language-aware teachers will make us better in our educational aims. Communicating is the first need, so a vehicular language is important , but we can understand that all the languages can partecipate in building a deeper knowledge. and stranger students could be a resource. Christina, Finland Christina, Finland Children in today's world are often already coming from various language backgrounds. Their homelanguage might be different to that of the school. Language awareness helps teachers to create space for diverse thinking; each language has its own way of thinking, concepts etc. Allowing and exploring these diverse ways with the pupils the teacher can create an atmosphere of acceptance and creativity and help the pupils to reach their full potential. Christina, Finland Christina, Finland Language awareness Erika, Italy Erika, Italy So far (from 2016) I had the opportunity to develop a project addressed to 23 children of different ages (between 6 and 10 years old) who did not attend courses of Catholic Religion concerning ‘Interculture, Citizenship and Costitution’ in a Primary School near Milan, I could/can work with children who speak Italian as a second language fluently and children who had to start with the basics. The majority are from Egypt and Morocco, but I had one student from Ecuador and one student from China too. Considering the peculiar aspects of my project, I had to acknowledge the importance of being a language aware teacher. Language awareness is the first step to learn to communicate with students characterized by different social and cultural backgrounds. When the language spoken at school is completely different from the language spoken at home, children can experience a lot of difficulties not related to the specific subject that is taught, but to the unfamiliar language that is used to teach it. A teacher who is not language aware is a teacher who is not aware of the fact that a language can become a real barrier that prevent the learner from reaching the real contents of his/her lessons. This misunderstanding can have a very negative effect: the strategies implemented by the teacher to help the learner won’t be effective because they won’t solve the learner's real problem (low linguistic proficiency). I think that I was able to become a more language aware teacher, even though I know that I need to develop some aspects of my language awareness, especially considering all the activities linked to the assessment. Last June, during a course (programme of study), I discovered that all the tests I had designed were not completely suitable for the students who spoke Italian as a second language. They were not stratified and not “calibratable” in accordance with children’s age, intercultural and linguistic competence. Serena, Italy Serena, Italy I've been always fond of languages and I'e been studying this subject all life long.....and I'm still doing! I think language awareness is the main key to provide our students with the most useful tools to be and feel citizens of the world. Education can only be conveyed throught language and people need to be well prepared to face nowadays problems but also to take all the possibilities to improve their life and relation sharing ideas and projects. I think I'm language-aware teacher, however sometimes I find difficult to involve my collegues in new challanges working together Roberta, Venice Roberta, Venice I strongly believe that each student is unique and I try to transmit them that mastering more languages widens their possibilities of expressing their opinions and feelings with more accuracy and richness. I hope I will learn new teaching methods to help them learn a language with pleasure. Giota, Greece Giota, Greece working with refugees children from Africa, with plurilingual reprertoires and enrolling them at the greek schools it is a great opportunity to talk about intercomprehension of languages and Clil or the principle of interdependance but it is also so diffficult and challenging to create material i want to embrace their wealth of languages, their plurilngual competence Language awareness Language awareness I’m a teacher in a secondary school in Rome, subject Italian, history and geography. I’d like to increase and improve my language awareness and that of my students. I’m starting learning Clil because, even if i’m not used to work with foreign students, i think it’s important to enlarge my own language skills, in order to help guys with particular needs. Natalia, Italy Natalia, Italy I'm an English teacher at a middle school in Italy. I think of being aware of language diversity because in my school there are students from many countries and they speak different languages. Of course, They also share with us their culture. Me too, I’m Spanish, I live in Italy and I teach English to students that come from different parts of the world, that’s why, I’d like to improve old tools and of course, to know new tools, resources and teaching methods to help students. Fernanda, Portugal Fernanda, Portugal It is important for teachers to get students connected with these aspects aspects of language learning to improve their skills. I believe I'm aware of this diversity but I think I need to expand it. I here to learn some I here to learn something about language diversity in the classroom I am here to learn s I am here to learn something about language diversity in the school setting Language Awareness Language Awareness Hello I am primary teacher and I think that language awareness is important not only to understand the native language of the students but it also helps to know about different cultures. Moreover, nowadays being language aware is a neccesity to live with foreign people as well as studying foreign languages,have the great opportunity for students and teachers to improve their skills and knowledge all about the world H H Sandra, Italy Sandra, Italy I'm a teacher of English as a second language and I think of being aware of language diversity because very often in our school there are students from different country, language and culture. For this reason I?d like to learn more practical tools and new teaching methods to help my students in their learning activities Krisnel, Italy Krisnel, Italy Language is a fundamental part of the exchange between people. I am a teacher of technical subjects who is learning to use the CLIL methodology for this a greater awareness of the vehicular language is important. Patrizia, Italy Patrizia, Italy Hello everybody. I am an italian teacher of secondary school. All my students are adults and they come from different countries, so they have different mother languages. Sometimes it is very difficult for me to teach in such contest. I hope this course will help me to do my job with a new awareness and with new tools. Rosy,Italy Rosy,Italy There are lots of different foreign students in my classroom. It is very difficult for them to explain what they have to . Silvia, Italy Silvia, Italy I think language awareness is important for all the teachers, this is why I decided to start this course. I don't feel like a language-aware teache because I have teaching for only one year, but I want to work on this and try to improvemy knowledge and language awareness. Ginevra, Italy Ginevra, Italy Hello everyone! I'm a Primary teacher. Often in the classroom there are children who come from different countries, it's important to make students aware of their Language. Krizia, Italy Krizia, Italy Hi, I'm an English teacher. I think it's fundamental to have students aware of their own language and of the foreign language they are studying. They need to reflect and understand the best way to communicate Erasmo, Italy Erasmo, Italy Do you feel like a language-aware teacher? Yes I do, so far I missed the theory behind that (e.g.I J. Cummins...) but I have always thought that it's crucial in modern world to be able to communicate in a 2nd language. What i need to develolop? I would like to know more practical tools to be able to better transfer it to my students. Hello everyone! Hello everyone! Madalina Cucaila, Romania Language awareness is very important in our society. Children from different countries study together, so it's important to make students aware of their language. Isabel Couto, Lisboa, Portugal Isabel Couto, Lisboa, Portugal As a teacher of French and Portuguese, I believe that mastering languages is increasingly important. Speaking other languages, apart from the obvious professional benefits, is the best alternative to fully interact with other cultures, in a globalized world and increasingly demanding that we can interact with people from all over the world. When we teach a language, we teach not only grammatical structures, vocabulary. We allow our students to connect with other cultures and even discover their own culture. These end up developing various skills at different levels. The importance of communication Patrizia Apetino Italia The importance of communication Patrizia Apetino Italia The major part of communication isn't verbal, even if we often forget it. Language awareness is very important moreover when you use Clil methodology. Language is closely related to thinking so if a teacher Language is closely related to thinking so if a teacher Maria do Rosário, Gaia, Portugal Maria do Rosário, Gaia, Portugal More than being language aware, I believe it is important to make students aware of the responsibility of using their language to communicate BICs and CALP which nowadays is becoming harderspecially in places where social and economical difficulties are present in a daily basis. In my school we are dealing with a large group of gipsies who lack competences to communicate since they don't value on the one hand, school, on the other hand because they are socially very limited to their community. They lack the will to interact with their classmates and adults. It's a challenge for teachers to make them participate and understand the importance of being fluent. Being aware of the languages in school is one of the reasons to enroll in this course. I wish I'll learn a lot to use afterwards. Sara, Aveiro, Portugal Sara, Aveiro, Portugal Over the years I've taught from primary to adults. Language is culture and reflects heritage. Each language is a world, each speaker has a part in it. Children in particular value that teachers are interested in them and if they speak another language, they like sharing it. The more languages you know, the easier you can communicate- that's what I told my 8-year-olds this monday. My kids come from different countries and I make sure they know that is valuable for everyone. Josefina Martín Josefina Martín Language awareness is key to make a sensible approach to language teaching and learning. As bilingual program coordinator I usually start talking and about this different concepts to my CLIL subject teachers ,Cummings BIC and CALP concepts. When you teach a foreign language you need to go back to mother tongue and forth to the foreign language exposing students to tbe aware of the differences and likeness between both. EZEL TUNA -TURKEY EZEL TUNA -TURKEY I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using. J. Javier M-Spain J. Javier M-Spain in order to become language aware, we as teachers should understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. These challenges may come because of learning a subject through an additional language or it may be the first time our students find some vocabulary or structures in their first language. Teachers who are ‘language aware’ understand why students face these difficulties and what we can do to help students overcome problems. Laura,Sicily Laura,Sicily I'm a maths teacher and I'm studing to become a CLIL teacher .and I've been in Dublin thanks to Erasmus Progect K1,where I attended a CLIL course. What I think about language aweareness is that studing a foreign language help students not only to improve accuracy and fluency but also to better understand every subject .I would like to know new teaching methods so to improve my knowledge. As a result, it's very important to be a language aweare teacher Simona from Porto Azzurro, Italy Simona from Porto Azzurro, Italy Hi, I think I'm becoming more aware about language. I've taught English for years and years in primary schools, in Italy. I've taught Italian too for 5 years. I became aware about lnguage when I started teaching Italian to my pupils: I realized how our "mother tongue" is culture, gives us a structure to our thoughts. It's very interesting teaching both Italian and english to the same young learners because you can use one language to "help" learning the other.... you can play with them: i. e.: we're lucky, we are italian and we know when to each article (il, lo, la, i gli, le) without studying.... and when we study english we only have "the", I work in an Erasmus+ school, we often have friends coming from other countries and we go to other countries with young pupils... What I miss and I would like to learn more here is how to encourage ant strenghten multilingual activities in my classes "using" more and better the other languages spoken by some children or by their mums/dads. So I'm looking for class strategies for young learners. Marilena from Modena Marilena from Modena Hi, I think I'm a language-aware teacher. The fact of being aware doesn't necessarily mean I am completely successful in teaching but I try. I teach French, I LOVE this language, it's the language of my soul, but I am interested in all languages, above all the farthest, which I consider the most exotic. The most amazing fact in any language is that there is ALWAYS a cultural background in it, in its lexis and functions there are historical, geographical and anthropological items. How interesting it is! Different kinds of greetings, for example, but every language has an AIM: to communicate! In "my" school there are many pupils of different nationalities and it's important for them to learn how to communicate in Italian but it's even important for us to know their languages in order to help them overcome their difficulties to express themselves in a foreign language. I studied foreign la I studied foreign languages at university and I teach English as a foreign language in a Maura I Maura I I studi ed s Dulcinea - Portugal Dulcinea - Portugal Hello, I teache history in Valença to students of diferents ages , but most important, of a variety of cultures; We have studens from Brasil, Spain, China, Gypsis, etc.Dealing with theme and the great linguistic variety, but also the diferents cultures is one of yhe greatest dificulties of a teacher today. If we do not learn to respect and acept this diferencies as something positive we can not contribue for a better sociey Samantha, European S Samantha, European School, Varese Hello! I'm Samantha Emanuele, I teach art at the European School of Varese, I have mixed groups in my classes of different nationalities, the students come from English, German, Italian, Dutch, French, this is my second year in the European School and this course is very important for me. Marijana from Croatia Marijana from Croatia I am a French and English teacher at a secondary school in Zagreb (students 14-19) and I have been teaching for 17 years. I don't think I am completely a language-aware teacher since in my school most students are Croatian. and we don't have multi-lingual students. But times are changing, so at the moment I have 3 new students in one class who are from China and Kosovo, so I hope this course will provide me with new confidence and practical tools to benefit from this cultural and language diversity. Carmen from Spain Carmen from Spain I do not consider I am a language-aware teacher. I teach Biology in a second language, a different one to my mother tongue. Taking into account the Cummings´ definition, I consider I am more trained in CALP than in BICS, at some extent. Living in a global world, it is necessry to develop LA as an important part of our proffessional teacher development plan. When I teach using CLIL methodologies, I try to collabate in the design of the didactic units with the teacher who is the specialist in teaching the second language (english, in my case)at school for helping me in the linguistic objectives that I need to accomplish. It is for that reason, I need to keep on learning in depth how to use a second language , basically in the 5 skilss of language learning. Being aware of Language Diversity by Nives Torresi Being aware of Language Diversity by Nives Torresi I am a native Speaker of English and teach in local High Schools at Secondary level. I have been teaching for over 20 years here in Italy. My background is Italo-Australian, I was born of Italian immigrants, completed my schooling and worked in Australia. Then I moved to Italy where I married and live in the countryside. In Australia our schools were full of multi-cultural students and Teachers. Understanding and learning about each other's culture was the norm in growing up. I bring this experience with me into the Italian classroom using it as a basis for speaking, discussion and project topics. Amanpreet, India Amanpreet, India Hello, I am an alpha teacher which means, I am learning how to teach students and according to me language awareness plays a very vital role while teaching students irrespective of any subject. By learning English language it will enhance my skills as well as will help me to know all the students from diverse regions. I will be teaching computers in future so according to me to be language-aware will not only help to understand the native languages but also all their culture too. Now that you know more ab Now that you know more about Language awareness, we ask you to reflect about this. Do you feel like a language-aware teacher? And if so, Why do you think it is important to be a ¨language-aware¨ teacher If not, what aspects of language awareness do you still need to develop? Please share your reflections in the padlet below. Thanks! Jeane de Fatima - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil Jeane de Fatima - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil Language, how do we communicate? The phrase used by Mandela represents how important communication is. Hje participated in the Webinar and was delighted with Profª's experience in presenting other languages in a creative and interactive way. Elena from Perugia Elena from Perugia Hello, I’m a teacher of English as EFL in a vocational school. My students, aged 14-19, come from different countries. We have multicultural classes and I think this is an opportunity and a resource to widen our cultural and language horizons. It’s a bit demanding but also a great challenge Manuela, Portugal Manuela, Portugal I am a teacher of English as a second language and I believe that being language-aware is really important. It has become more and more common to have students from different nationalities in class and we really need to know how to deals with that. Being Aware of Language Diversity by Nives Torresi Being Aware of Language Diversity by Nives Torresi I am a native Speaker of English and teach in local High Schools at Secondary level. I have been teaching for over 20 years here in Italy. My background is Italo-Australian, I was born and completed my schooling and worked in Australia, Stathis Likidis, Greece Stathis Likidis, Greece I'm a teacher on electronics and computing at a secondary school. I believe that being language-aware is important not only to understand the native language of my students but also their culture. Language and culture awareness help us to understand in the maximum degree students in my class, something that makes the communication easier. Language and culture characterize everyone... Anna Maria Scrimieri Anna Maria Scrimieri My essential motive as a language teacher is stimulating pupils to develop an ability to think critically about language and to create a challenging and an inspirational environment in which pupils are encouraged to realise that learning is a process related to oneself. This implies the importance of being able to understand one’s own way of thinking and the use of language as a medium in order to learn a foreign language. In other words, my ambitions involve stimulating metacognition of my pupils. Agata, Italy Agata, Italy I'am teacher of English but I feel I can teach more than English. I love my students sharing their own language and life-style experience in class, and I love reminding them that each of them is unique and has a very particular richness to bring into the lessons. In this sense I may say I'm language-aware. The major difficulty I'm still facing is the embarassment that students sometimes feel when exposing themselves as "different" just because of their origins. I hope this MOOC can give me the right tools to use in class in order to help them overcome their negative feelings ... Chrysanthi Chrysanthi I learn these things while I was at the university, because Lingustics was my object. So I think we can understand how important language awareness is by working with students without any awareness of language. There isn´t any concept in their mind about what language really is. But they start very quickly to compare with their own language by learning a second of course and this helps them to acquire awareness. So, a teacher must show them, that language is a system, but it is much more than that: It is the way I think, the way I see and understand the world. Stefania Stefania Hello! I teach in a secondary school and I think that it is very important to be a language-aware teacher. First of all, it could be helpful in order to show and to analyse the differences that we can find between two or more languages. In addition, studying these differences could be a successful way to learn and improve your skill in a foreign language. Being a language-aware teacher can help you to find new strategies in order to improve your teaching method. For example, when I was a student our Spanish teacher explained us the difference between por qué and porque using why and because. At the beginning, it was quite difficult to understand how to use them in Spanish, but thanks to this example we learnt it quickly. Maria Rosa Maria Rosa I’m a Maths teacher in a secondary school in Sicily( Italy).I’m trying to improve my English to become a CLIL teacher. I think that being a language aware teacher is very important to engage students to learn Maths in English. In this way students might improve their English skills and their vocabulary by learning specific words that we use in Maths lessons. sevim hazar-Turkey sevim hazar-Turkey Language awareness blends a) content about language, b) language skill, c) attitudinal education and d) metacognitive opportunities, which allow the student to reflect on the process of language acquisition, learning and language use. All four of these aspects of language awareness need to be integrated into the existing subject areas. A focus on language awareness is a key aspect of creating student-centered classrooms, and assists the teacher to present material accordingly to student readiness. Hello , I'm a teacher of English and science in a Primary School in Puglia , Italy. In my school there are pupils that come from foreign countries. Teaching Clil my students have the possibility to use the foreign language for thinking in parallel with the mother tongue. Moreover the focus is not on structures or grammar , but on language use in real -life contexts. Hello , I'm a teacher of English and science in a Primary School in Puglia , Italy. In my school there are pupils that come from foreign countries. Teaching Clil my students have the possibility to use the foreign language for thinking in parallel with the mother tongue. Moreover the focus is not on structures or grammar , but on language use in real -life contexts. Anna Anna Hi, I'm a primary school teacher. I totally agree with Letizia Cingagnotto. Sandra Leite, Azores - PORTUGAL Sandra Leite, Azores - PORTUGAL Within the classroom, it is necessary to show a motivated and open education based on learning, the interests that the students have about the world and the environment; which is shared and shared in the planning of the work to be done; that is cooperative, collaborative and in interaction knowing how to work together, going to the meeting that it is necessary to be a teacher "with knowledge of language". Hence, the pertinence of the work of my classroom under project methodology for the eTwinning and Scientix projects. Hi, my name's Antone Hi, my name's Antonella and I'm a primary school teacher. In my class there are some foreign students who have difficulties in understanding Italian language or simply don't understand some specific word of school subjects because these ones are not used in colloquial speech. I think being a more language aware teacher can help me to find more strategies to help my students. Hi, my name's Antone Hi, my name's Antonella and I'm a primary school teacher. In my class there are some foreign students who have difficulties in understanding Italian language or simply don't understand some specific word of school subjects because these ones are not used in colloquial speech. I think being a more language aware teacher can help me to find more strategies to help my students. Alessandra, Italy Alessandra, Italy Hello! In my opinion every teacher of every subject should be language-aware, as it is important in order to guide students in their scaffolding learning path. This starts from mother-tongue that is usually and wrongly given for granted. On the contrary it requires guidance and practice towards the students' language awareness. As for foreign languages, students should study more than one, so that they understand practically what lies beyond language expressions. Cultural diversity can be acquired only through language awareness. Laurie, Germany Laurie, Germany Hello! I am a support teacher at an international primary school in Germany. Before moving to a Germany, I taught English in senior schools in Canada. I had no training as an EFL teacher and must admit to feeling immensely frustrated with the minimal levels of reading and writing proficiency of many of my former students. To further “complicate” matters, many of their family members had limited oral language skills in English so establishing the much needed home/school connection (without a translator) was virtually impossible. Since living abroad, learning the German language, and teaching at an international school (in which 30 different languages are represented), I have become much more receptive to multilingual environments. This has been an area of both personal and professional growth for me. As a much more language aware teacher, I consider language awareness to be at the core of human interaction. Maria Covino Maria Covino Italy Hi! I'm an English teacher in a lower Secondary School. In my opinion all of us need to have a language awareness, expecially at school where there are a lot of multicultural students. Nowadays being language aware is a neccesity to live with other foreign people; students studying foreign languages, have the opportunity to open their mind to the world, to understand better the differences of cultures, to compare with others and to communicate with all the people they want. Language awareness Language awareness Language awareness Language awareness Maria Luisa, Italy Maria Luisa, Italy Hi, I am an English teacher in an upper secondary school in Piacenza- Italy. I am also a CLIL teacher and I cooperate with collegues teaching other subjects, in particular technical ones. Also my classes are full of students from different countries and I would like to improve my teaching skills and hope to enhance my and my student's Language awareness. Thanks for the opportunity Francesco, Italy Francesco, Italy Howdy you all! My name is Francesco and I teach Literature, History and Geography in a secondary school of a little country village near Venice ( guys from 11 to 13). In my opinion it's very important to be a language-aware teacher above all if you like sharing with your students what you like most (and I'm not only talking about contents but also feelings). When you read a poem by Shakespeare or you tell your guys something about American Revolution or Natives and you want them to get complitely into that historical moment you should use English language to create the right atmosphere, so that they can understand and feel what was really happened. If you have any students coming from other countries it becomes more interesting because you can try to show them the importance of being a sort of big family, a group , a team which can comunicate using the same language. Francesco,Italy Francesco,Italy Hi,I'm a student of education,I think it is significant to encourage our pupils to learn foreign language as it is good for their future.By knowing more language they can find job in other countries and also able to understand foreigners and their culture Hi,I'm a student of education,I think it is significant to encourage our pupils to learn foreign language as it is good for their future.By knowing more language they can find job in other countries and also able to understand foreigners and their culture Anna Rosa, Italy Anna Rosa, Italy I'm a Clil teacher in History in a language secondary school. Being aware is maybe the most important value when teaching in English. Students get contents while enriching their own language awareness. Anna, Italy Anna, Italy I teach English and I like to use CLIL methodology because I think it's a way to enlarge our thinking CINZIA, ITALY CINZIA, ITALY Hi! I teach English and Italian in a primary school. My class is composed of different cultures and some special needs pupils. To be language aware, in my opinion, means to be conscious of the power of words, of the of compare different languages and different cultures. Maybe I am keen on the theory about this, but I am looking forward to learning how to concretize my ideas. Luigi,Italy Luigi,Italy I teach English but I am also pecial need teacher in a upper secondary school. A good number of students in my school come from different Countries and some of them don't speak Italian .As more and more migrants and refugees are coming to our country and to our schools, I think it is essential to be a language aware teacher! Joanna, Poland. Joanna, Poland. I teach English as a second language in mixed nationality classes . To be language aware means, for me, to be culture aware and realize what importance language has for individuals . Angela from Italy Angela from Italy Hi everybody! I teach English in a middle school . I'm happy to learn more about language awareness , it's challenging Patty from Italy Patty from Italy Hello, I'm a teacher of English and Science in a Primary School. My students are from 6 to 10/11 and some of them come from foreign countries. Therefore teaching English with CLIL is a way to use foreign language for thinking in parallel with mother tongue and the focus is not on structure or grammar, but on language use in real- life contexts. Hi I'm a teacher of Art History. I was born in Italy and have essentially lived all my life in Italy, but my mother is originally from Germany. I immediately wanted to learn as many languages as I could at school and I aim at enhancing language. I think it is important to think like a "language -aware" teacher . Hi I'm a teacher of Art History. I was born in Italy and have essentially lived all my life in Italy, but my mother is originally from Germany. I immediately wanted to learn as many languages as I could at school and I aim at enhancing language. I think it is important to think like a "language -aware" teacher . Hi there! I teach English in a lower secondary school in Tuscany, Italy. My students are from 11 to 14 and many of them come from foreign countries. I always aim at enhancing language and culture diversity in my classes. I love planning CLIL activities together with my colleagues! I think it's fundamental to be a language-aware teacher nowadays: language is communication, language is culture. Language awareness has to do with respect and good citizenship. Hi there! I teach English in a lower secondary school in Tuscany, Italy. My students are from 11 to 14 and many of them come from foreign countries. I always aim at enhancing language and culture diversity in my classes. I love planning CLIL activities together with my colleagues! I think it's fundamental to be a language-aware teacher nowadays: language is communication, language is culture. Language awareness has to do with respect and good citizenship. Gioia, Italy Francesco from Italy Francesco from Italy Hi to everybody, I teach italian grammar and literature to students from 11 to 14 years old. I've just begun to think like a “language-aware” teacher, thanks to this course. To be a “language-aware” teacher it's important open-mindedness. Have a nice day! Hi! I teach french in Romania to students from 14 to 20 years old. I think is important to encourage our pupils to think and communicate in a foreign language because is good for their future. Speaking one or more languages help them to better accomodate in every country they go or to find better jobs. Hi! I teach french in Romania to students from 14 to 20 years old. I think is important to encourage our pupils to think and communicate in a foreign language because is good for their future. Speaking one or more languages help them to better accomodate in every country they go or to find better jobs. Carmela from Italy Carmela from Italy Hi I'm a teacher of English in a lower secondary school. Today in my school we have just celebrated The European Day of Languages and I invited my students to think about the importance of learning foreign languages. Some of them said that speaking foreign languages it's very important not only to be closer to different cultures and understand them but also for their future jobs. I can add that it helps students to get responsible and self confident citizens of the world. Fredrik Sweden Fredrik Sweden I work as a Swedish as a second language teacher and for me, language awareness is about respect. Respecting the diversity of languages in the classroom and our different experiences elijanko from italy elijanko from italy Hi to everybody! I'm a teacher of History of Art in Italy. I have been trying to teach with clil method, but I'm not sure to be smart enough to reach my goals! I'm convinced that we need a deep knowledge of other languages (not only ourmother tounge), but it's a hard challenge!!! Hi. I am Gabriella from Milan, Italy and I am a Clil teacher in a Secondary High Scool. I am language aware. I am deeply convinced that a good language awareness, both in L1 and L2, is fundamental for an efficient problem solving reasoning in every field of daily life. If we are not aware of our language possibilities or language limits then we are not aware of our possibilities or limits of our thoughts, concepts since they are just "language". We can thinkabout something just because we can "speak" of it. If we cannot define an emotion with a word, express it in a sentence then it might not exist for us. Hi. I am Gabriella from Milan, Italy and I am a Clil teacher in a Secondary High Scool. I am language aware. I am deeply convinced that a good language awareness, both in L1 and L2, is fundamental for an efficient problem solving reasoning in every field of daily life. If we are not aware of our language possibilities or language limits then we are not aware of our possibilities or limits of our thoughts, concepts since they are just "language". We can thinkabout something just because we can "speak" of it. If we cannot define an emotion with a word, express it in a sentence then it might not exist for us. Hi. I am a Clil teac Hi. I am a Clil teacher. I am languag !IH !IH Manlio Ajello, Italy Manlio Ajello, Italy I am an Art teacher and I consider important the knowledge of other languages, above all to overcome the communication gap with foreign students, who are often present in the classroom, but also to better involve them in sharing their discipline skills or personal ideas and opinions. Daniela, Romania Daniela, Romania I am IT teacher and I use the information gathered from the Internet in various languages (English, French, Spanish) in teaching the subject. I encourage my students to read articles about a specific subject in English, for example, In this way they will improve their language skills. Maria Carla, Italy Maria Carla, Italy I think I feel like a language-aware teacher, and in my opinion this is probably the most important aspect when you teach in a foreign language. Language awareness allows your students to feel their experience as real and necessary. Clara, Portugal Clara, Portugal Dealing with the great linguistic variety is one of the greatest difficulties of the teacher and of the human being, in general. Many times the presence of linguistic and cultural diversity leads to tension, unleashes feelings of intolerance and, especially, the prejudice that defines differences as something negative. The lack of appreciation of linguistic diversity contributes to the confirmation of linguistic and cultural prejudice and this prejudice leads to discrimination, generating problems of interaction between students and between students and teachers, causing the classroom to become a place of social exclusion. I belive I am a language aware teacher because I try hard to integrate foreign language (and culture) in my practice. Ana, Portugal Ana, Portugal I teach both English and Portuguese as second languages. I feel like a language-aware teacher, because I try to understand the different challenges my sts are facing, because I have Chinese and Ukrainian sts who are learning a second or third language and it's not always easy to explain some grammar structures. Laura Italy Laura Italy I'am a clil teacher in a secondary school and I have been teaching in multicultural classes for a long time . In these classes the teacher must understand the importance of language awarness in order to create a relationship with students coming from different countries and with different cultures . I think I am a language-aware teacher because I often use my languages knowledge to approach new foreign students , and ask them to teach the class some words from their mother language , to make them feel confortable and motivate to learn our language . Nicolina G., Italy Nicolina G., Italy I teach English as foreign language at a lower secondary school and I think that being a language aware teacher is very important. I work with students with special needs and with students from different countries. I am sure that this course will improve my language awareness to help all my students feel more motivated to learn or take part in different activities with benefits for everybody. HI! HI! Melissa Mocriș, Romania Melissa Mocriș, Romania Being myself a bilingual, I strongly believe that to be a ”language-aware” teacher is very necessary in the classroom. It can be helpful for the students because already knowing another language can help understand the second. Also, knowing 2 languages has a crucial role in understanding 2 different cultural and social backgrounds. It can change the way the way students looked at the world; they can find other ways of thinking. I believe that this course will help me in the way I approach the aspects of language awareness . Konstantina, Greece Konstantina, Greece I think that I am a language aware teacher because I believe that our cultural and so, our language, make us the persons that we are and that is an element who specifies the teaching in the classroom with the students. Serenella, Italy Serenella, Italy I teach English in a Primary school,, where the percentage of foreign students is not high, but things are changing lately and every year some new arrivals from European or non-European countries are a challenge for Teachers of any subjects. Being a Language-aware teacher can help a lot… (both for foreign and Italian pupils) So I hope to learn new teaching strategies during this course, sharing ideas and experiences with other colleagues. Carmen Guidetti, from Ferrara, Italy Carmen Guidetti, from Ferrara, Italy I am foreing languafge teacher at secondary school and I think it is very important to be a language aware teacher. And it is not necessary to be a foreing language teacher to be one. I think that all ones should be. Sometimes, we can't find the best way or the best tool to improve our language awareness, sometimes we think it is not necessary at all because we can deal with daily lessons. >But when we open our classroom to other ones, as we can do being part of Etwinning community, we realise that we need to imporve this skill to let our students to increase and improve their languages competences and skills. Andrea Andrea I'm a middle school technology teacher (a kind of strange subject we have in Italy...a mix betwen tech drawing - by hands and CAD too - and some info regarding actual industrial fields, construction, robotic, .... a lot of stuff). I'm teaching in a small town, a godforsaken place, as I'm used to say to my pupils, even if this town is only 30 km from Milan. We've a great number of first immigration kids, due to the low costs of the houses. They're from South America but, more often, from Africa (both North and Central), East Europe (Romania, Poland) and East Asia (Cina, India, Pakistan) We're a real meltingpot of cultures and, realistically, my non Italian students son't speak Italian at home. In the first months of their being in Italy they have a small vocabulary and they are understandably frightened of speaking with their new classmates. I'm reasonably aware of the need of using language as a key to succeed in their integration both in our classes and in our society. My partecipation to this course is to enlarge my views and prospectives. I'm pretty sure I'll find a lot of interesting point of discussion and cues for my daily work Voziari Ioanna, Greece Voziari Ioanna, Greece Being a language-aware teacher helps learners feel more positive in the classroom and also more motivated to learn new things or participate in different activities Lara Melich, Tortosa Lara Melich, Tortosa I teach English and French to bilingual students who speak Catalan and Spanish and also students with other mother tongues, such as Arabic, Russian, Rumanian... I usually try to compare words or structures that are common or similar in different languages, so they can associate and learn them easily. I feel they look curious and proud to see that they know the words in several languages Nadia Massariello Tibello, Italu Nadia Massariello Tibello, Italu Hello to everybody. I'm an Italian and English teacher in a primary school.I think language awareness is important and I make an effort every day , in my classes, to use new ways to teach this. Margherita Carta, Italy Margherita Carta, Italy As a French teacher in a lower secondary school, I'm aware of the importance of languages as a mean of communication. Nevertheless, I believe it is essential to work and learn more and more to really become a language-aware teacher and to move students towards a deep understanding and learning. So, I'm here in order to work on teaching and learning strategies and find tools which can support and improve my every-day job. Angela gallo, Italy Angela gallo, Italy I teach English at the middle school and I think that language awareness is very important Kirsten Barrett - Scotland Kirsten Barrett - Scotland I am an EAL teacher (working with bilingual children here in Scotland.) It is important to be "language-aware" as all teachers support children's learning and one way of doing this is to celebrate the diversity they bring to our classrooms. Bilingualism is a positive. I think it is very important to take into account the fact that the first language plays a crucial role in the learning process of whichever subject. I think it is very important to take into account the fact that the first language plays a crucial role in the learning process of whichever subject. isa çetin isa çetin thanks Francisca, from Spain Francisca, from Spain Hello everybody. I'm a P.E. teacher in secundary school and it's the first time I teach in multilingual classroom, so I hope to learn a lot in this course and to share our experiencies about language awareness... Language awareness Language awareness I think it is important to take into account the knowledge of a second language when teaching whichever subject. This because it may be an additional resource when it comes to acquiring something new. In some way we should be able to connect the new knowledge to the language the student already knows. Language is always Pieri Stefania Pieri Stefania Hello everyone,I'm P.E and English teacher in a primary school and about thirty percent of my students are from other countries.So language awareness is essential for teachers and pupils.In these days we are working to celebrate European Day of Languages and this is a great opportunity to reflect on this topic. Angela, Italy Angela, Italy As a teacher of English at a secondary school, I am language-aware in theory, but I still need to develop a way to understand my student's needs better Lanciate aware non Lanciate aware non language awareness language awareness I tuoni Barbara, Italy Barbara, Italy Hi, I'm an English teacher in a primary school.I think language awareness is important and I make an effort every day , in my classes, to use new ways to teach this (Clil lessons included). I'd like to share ideas and experiences in this course. Laura, Italy Laura, Italy Hi everybody! I have been a Spanish and English teacher for 7 years. Apart from the Italian language, my students study three foreign languages (English, Spanish and French) and during our lessons I encourage them to compare the different language systems they manage in order to increase their language awareness. Agata Brescia, Italy Agata Brescia, Italy As Math teacher in the Secondary School, I explain the contents of the lesson and use language but I am not aware of the ways in which I do it. I am seeing more and more , in my classes, students with unfamiliar names and different accents. I think that it is through language that learners access the content of the lesson. It is my responsability to make sure that language is not a barrier to learning. I hope to acquire the elements of becoming a "language-aware" teacher!!! "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. ” Nelson Mandela Maria Calà, Italy Maria Calà, Italy Hello everyone! I am a Catholic religion teacher in primary school. Sometimes I feel I'm up to my job and the role I play, especially when I have to work with foreign students who have no awareness of the language. I'm happy to attend this course. Today it is very important to enhance the languages and idioms in our classes, like Arabic, Chinese .... and other languages, even in a playful form Hello Hello I'm Khuraman from Azerbaijan.I have 5 years experience in teaching. I think I'll learn a lot in this mooc Maria Rosaria , Italy Maria Rosaria , Italy Hello everybody, I teach French in a lower secondary school, and I Think that language awareness is very important for teacher and pupils; especially nowadays it facilitates inclusion and develops respect for every foreign country Marzia, Italy Marzia, Italy Hello, everybody! I'm an italian primay teacher: I've been teaching english from 4 to 60 y,o. people in private schools, Italian to adults and kids as a second language and after 13 years as a class teacher, I'm back to my loved english teaching to kids. I've met a lot of foreign children and families and I'm not sure I've always been as good, as I should have, at language awareness so I'm very pleased to be part of this mooc. I think speaking foreign languages is very important also for empathy and the skill of seeing/understanding the others point of view. What I think is very difficult but so important nowadays is to valorize as many languages as possible in our classes, such as arabic, chinese....and other languages, this can be done with games, sayings, songs and so on! I live in Maranello so I would like to participate with a photo of the Ferrari myth! Anja, Norway Anja, Norway I am a teacher for German and Spanish at a secondary school. I think that I am a language-aware teacher, but struggle very much with getting my students interested in exploring their own language and other languages. I also get frustrated when students with beautiful mothertongues do not value their own knowledge, they seem to think that their languages don't count in our schoolsystem. I'd like to learn how to encourage them to be more open about it. Salvador Páez. SPAIN Salvador Páez. SPAIN Hello friends!!! I am a teacher in primary school in the south of Spain. I think that language awareness is essential for us as a teachers. I would like to teach my pupils the more the better to encoge their skills for the future. So this is the reason why I would like to take advance of this course. Zeynep Taş Yardımcı, Turkey Zeynep Taş Yardımcı, Turkey I'm an English teacher form Turkey. I think I'm a language-aware teacher as I study alot about language learning, however, I still need to develop some aspects such as cultural, traditional elements in my students' mother tongues. Turkish people have a huge difficulty in learning foreign languages so maybe this MOOC will help me understand why and find solutions to that problem. Marta Ropio, Portugal Marta Ropio, Portugal I'm a portuguese language and literature teacher in a Secondary School (in Portugal). This year, I'm teaching portuguese literature in Mohamed V University in Rabat. In Portugal i used to have multicultural students, but here it is a bigger challenge because I'm dealing with students which native language is the arabic and a little bit of french and english. To know about language awarness and multicultural environment can give me more tools to help my students. Hello colleagues! I'm maestra Emma. I teach L1 and LS in a Primary School. My classes have students who come from different parts of the Earth. To include all the children and let them experience what happens when things are said in another language, I use L2 every day for routines and for things to do: I explain them and mime them. I do not use the word translate, I do not ask: How do I translate this word? I use the phrase: what is the saying in L1 / LS. Every word, every sentence is an expression of culture and history, of good practices. Being aware of the richness and the limit that brings diversity, we can not understand everything but we can try to understand a little more it is necessary to learn. Knowing other stories, foods, sounds, faces (every language has its faces) means knowing the need to learn.Some of my students in the summer attend school in their country or know songs, foods, uses that we do not know. This is why I have developed an UdA which is called "I am The Expert ". Children, helped by their parents present their other school, teach us a different school. Everyone is interested, does not mean that we no longer like our school, we know different ways. We have also seen study books from Japan, Korea, photos from other countries, other alphabets.I also like to use obsolete Italian words with sounds and shades of meaning that we risk losing. All of this intrigues and supports attention and motivation, because it is beautiful and concerns us. So learning is a bit easier. Hello colleagues! I'm maestra Emma. I teach L1 and LS in a Primary School. My classes have students who come from different parts of the Earth. To include all the children and let them experience what happens when things are said in another language, I use L2 every day for routines and for things to do: I explain them and mime them. I do not use the word translate, I do not ask: How do I translate this word? I use the phrase: what is the saying in L1 / LS. Every word, every sentence is an expression of culture and history, of good practices. Being aware of the richness and the limit that brings diversity, we can not understand everything but we can try to understand a little more it is necessary to learn. Knowing other stories, foods, sounds, faces (every language has its faces) means knowing the need to learn.Some of my students in the summer attend school in their country or know songs, foods, uses that we do not know. This is why I have developed an UdA which is called "I am The Expert ". Children, helped by their parents present their other school, teach us a different school. Everyone is interested, does not mean that we no longer like our school, we know different ways. We have also seen study books from Japan, Korea, photos from other countries, other alphabets.I also like to use obsolete Italian words with sounds and shades of meaning that we risk losing. All of this intrigues and supports attention and motivation, because it is beautiful and concerns us. So learning is a bit easier. Mehtap Öz Mehtap Öz Hello friends..I am an English teacher.I think language awareness is crucial and I am ready to learn.Thanks. Emilia, Poland Emilia, Poland I am a teacher in primary school and I believe language awareness is essential in my job. This is why I want to learn more about it during this course. Erasmo, Erasmo, Hi All, I am a teacher in secondary school. We are living in a world where is becoming more and more important connectivity with people from foreign countries. It's important that students will be well prepared to face this in their future life. I am confident that this course will help me by supplying additonal teaching tools to support them. Petra Kokeza, Croatia Petra Kokeza, Croatia Hello, I am a teacher of geography and history in secondary school. I think that language awareness and diversity is very important. I would like to know more about this topic, so I am here now, and I am ready for learning Federica (Italian in Australia) Federica (Italian in Australia) I teach in a public primary school with a bilingual program that strives to follow CLIL methodology. Since the school is surrounded by embassies, we have a multicultural community and therefore linguistic and cultural awareness are key features of our pedagogy. I feel that this linguistically and culturally diverse environment requires teachers to have a high degree of Language Awareness - as well as cultural awareness and sensitivity - for two main reasons: Firstly, to be able to connect with students, make them feel valued and foster a sense of belonging to their learning community. Secondly, to understand their background and prior knowledge and build on them. In fact, it can be of great advantage for teachers to know about different linguistic systems and point out differences and similarities, in order to help students make links between their native language/s and the foreign language/s they are learning. In general, I think to be a language aware teacher but I would like to know more about how to best support and value children who come from different Countries (especially non-European Countries) and enrich our school with a great variety of linguistic and cultural/intercultural experiences. PALMA FROM SPAIN PALMA FROM SPAIN I am a Pre Primary teacher.Pre primary science are the first step to work language awarareness.If the teacher is not prepared in this field; the students will have great problems to make a successful communication Sirpa, Finland Sirpa, Finland I'm a history and politics teacher and I've been teaching bilingually over 20 years both in middle and high school. Language awareness has been important to me since we've had students from over 40 different countries and many of them don't have either Finnish or English as their mother tongue. I've noticed that it is important for the students to be able to do both oral and written assignments in both languages since most of them continue to universities either here in Finland or abroad. Ali Coşkun,Turkey Ali Coşkun,Turkey I am a primary school teacher language awareness is very important for students who speak other languages. Ioana, Romania Ioana, Romania I am a primary school teacher and I think it is important for my students to know about language awareness. We are witnessing a social, economic and political process that goes beyond the borders of the country, we actively participate in the transformation of the world, so we have to be active in terms of general linguistic dynamics, we need to understand the phenomenon of historical necessity leading to good knowledge of international languages. Pirjo, Finland Pirjo, Finland Hello, I'm a teacher of English in primary school. In Finland we have a long tradition of starting learning English at the age of nine, on the third class. In two years time the start of first foreign language (mostly English) throughout the country will move to the first school year, the age of seven. My school belongs to a group of pilot schools which have started language studies for first classers already. It is noteworthy that children of that age themselves are already language aware. Lena, Germany Lena, Germany I think I am a language-aware teacher in theory, which means I know the basic concepts, but I often forget that not all of my students have the same mother tongue that I have...and that sometimes leads to problems. Maria Rosaria Maria Rosaria Hi, I’m a teacher of English in Primary School. I think that is very important stimolate pupils to develop an ability to think critically about language and to create an inspirational environment in which pupils are encouraged to use of language as a medium in order to learn a foreign language Hi my name is Michaela and I am an RECE in a school in Canada I always though language awareness and diversity is important for the teachers and students since we are a bilingual country, and have many children of different backgrounds here and children in our school just new to this country overall! Hi my name is Michaela and I am an RECE in a school in Canada I always though language awareness and diversity is important for the teachers and students since we are a bilingual country, and have many children of different backgrounds here and children in our school just new to this country overall! Giuseppe, Italy Giuseppe, Italy I am a Math and Science teacher in a small town middle school located near Milan, Italy. I think that being language-aware is an essential quality to have a better way of perceiving and thinking the world. I'm a very careful with pupils of different backgrounds and cultures; they’re an enriching factors in our classes, not an issue for the future of the our school community. Tiziana Tiziana Most of my life has been focussed on language teaching and thus language awareness is crucial. I love reflecting on languages, idioms and I like my students to become aware of the importance of language awareness. Cristian Carotenuto Cris Cristian Carotenuto Cristian Carotenuto Hi everybody! I teach English in upper secondary. My school is a Liceo with an International branch so it is quite important for me to develop language awareness as some of my students have mother tongues that are different from Italian. In so doing I try to get into their cultural backgrounds and help them in speaking and reproducing a language which has both BICS and CALP elements required for real language and IGCSE exams Rita Rita Hi, I Fátima Silva Fátima Silva Hello. I am a teacher of English in Seia on the slope of Serra da Estrela. This year I am teaching English to year 7 and year 9. At our school, our students also learn French and Spanish. Tamara Tamara Tamara, Tamara, I've been teaching foreign languages for thirty years in different kinds of schools to students ranging from low to high levels so I think I am language aware even if I think you have always something to learn from anyone. That's why I'm here, to learn form others' experiences. Matilde Matilde In Catalonia we have two official languages, Catalan and Spanish. Our primary pupils also learn a third language, mostly English. And between 30 and 40% of my students speak another language at home. One of our aims is to integrated and value the cultural diversity of our pupils and to develop their language awarness. Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy I’m a teacher of English Language and Culture at a Liceo in Italy. As foreign language teacher I’m aware of the importance of language as means of communication among the teacher and the students and among the students themselves. All languages share the same communicative functions but students are usually unaware of this basic rule, so the first aim of teachers of any subject should be to make profit of this common ground to develop compenteces, knowledge and abilities in their specific subject-matter. ismail erdoğan, Çanakkale, Turkey ismail erdoğan, Çanakkale, Turkey Well, I feel like a language-aware teacher.I know that is so important I can think so. Hello Hello Christine Christine Christine Italy Christine Italy Hello everyone, I'm an English teacher in a primary school. I like very much teaching to students aged from 6 to 10, it's a hard work but I think it's extremely important for children to get in touch with a foreign language early in their life in order to open their mind and try to experiment their lingual skills. CLIL has an important role in a new language learning process because it forces students to challenge the Rosa, Italy I am an English teacher in a Primary School. I think it is very important to develop students’ plurilingual competence as soon as possible. I encourage my pupils to “play” with language and to enjoy new sounds and structures through rhyme, storytelling, song and tongue twisters. Nevertheless, I feel inadequate to answer all their language needs and I hope this course will give me some practical examples of I can become more language aware in my everyday teaching. Rosa, Italy I am an English teacher in a Primary School. I think it is very important to develop students’ plurilingual competence as soon as possible. I encourage my pupils to “play” with language and to enjoy new sounds and structures through rhyme, storytelling, song and tongue twisters. Nevertheless, I feel inadequate to answer all their language needs and I hope this course will give me some practical examples of I can become more language aware in my everyday teaching. Ernesto, Italy Ernesto, Italy I am a physical education teacher at the secondary school. Language awareness is very important not only for teachers of foreign languages, but also for teachers of any subject. I am a teacher in a Secondary School in Italy and my subjects are Latin and Ancient Greek. Everyday I encourage my students to improve their "language awareness", playing with etymology or helping to develop their learning processes by showing differencies and similarities among languages. Even if they deal with unspoken anymore or "dead" languages, as they say, I think that it is important to notice the shared skills and tools to embracing linguistic stuctures and rules, such as vocabulary and grammar. If they become aware of the importance of this approach, they will be able to master many languages I am a teacher in a Secondary School in Italy and my subjects are Latin and Ancient Greek. Everyday I encourage my students to improve their "language awareness", playing with etymology or helping to develop their learning processes by showing differencies and similarities among languages. Even if they deal with unspoken anymore or "dead" languages, as they say, I think that it is important to notice the shared skills and tools to embracing linguistic stuctures and rules, such as vocabulary and grammar. If they become aware of the importance of this approach, they will be able to master many languages Valentina (Italy) Valentina (Italy) I'm a "young" teacher in secondary school, in Italy. My audience, right now, is formed by "difficult" pupils. The school where I teach is one of the last reserved schools for special educational needs. I teach humanities, as English speakers say. I always felt at ease when I had to deal with languages. I made classical studies since I was a child and what i realized, later, when I came across one of my most relevant passions at university, I'm talking about informatics, was that understanding the underlying structures and ideological patterns of a language was essential everywhere, even in that particular, so distant, field of knowledge. I see learning as an intricate riddle, as a Rubik's cube (I'm fond about it!) and I think the key to solve it, apprehend it and manage it easily, is laid in that patterns and logical structures of which I was speaking before. We can call them neurological algorithms, in a certain way. And I would like my pupils to be able to understand what I'm talking about, in order to improve, first of all, their key skills qualifications. In my opinion, these skills are the basis for all the successive achievements in life, inside and outside school. I would like to get some tips during this course for teaching "language-awareness" to them. Ireland Ireland Cecelia (Ireland) Cecelia (Ireland) I teach in a school where a huge amount of the children are bi- and pluri-lingual (to extremely varying levels; from some speaking another language exclusively at hometo others who only know a few words of their parents' languages) . While I try to ensure that this aspect of their identities is celebrated within the formal educational setting, I would love to know more ways to support them in developing their language proficiency (in both their home language and English as the first language of the school). Lucia Lucia Bonjour à tous! As you see I'm a french teacher. To be language-aware is important to teach but much more to pull down the barriers between languages and people. ro, ro, romit romit romit kaur India romit kaur India As a teacher i think language is the first source of learning for our students.we must be proficient in different languages so that we can provide our expertise to every student without facing any difficulties in communication. Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece I am a teacher in a Minority school in Greece where students are Greek citizens but their mother language is turkish. Usually when endering Primary school they know either few or nothing in Greek. I face too many difficalties since Turkish is a language very different to Greek or English. So, being a language aware teacher in fundamental to Gabriela, Romania Gabriela, Romania I am an English teacher in a technological high-school in Romania. My students study Romanian, English and French. Some of them already have knowledge of German, Turkish and Russian. I think that being a language aware teacher is compulsory in this situation. I can make them better understand through associating different structures from the languages they knoe. Grace Grace Far from appearing conceited, as a language teacher, being language-aware is a must quality, a mindset; it is easier when you deal with European languages, more challenging with Gabriella Gabriella As a teacher, but moreover as a person, I think that we start to think about our language very soon. When for instance we play with our little friends and we choose to change our name or to call something in a different way, building a secret language, we are using our abilitiy to handle language and our consciusness that language is a social agreement. Leonardo Leonardo I am a teacher in Leonardo Leonardo Leonardo Leonardo I am an Art Leonardo Leonardo I am an Art teacher and I think that the Leonardo Leonardo I am an Art teacher and I think that the LA Leonardo Leonardo I am an Art teacher and I think that the LA increase the connection between the students Francesca Francesca I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using CLIL activities, because students can become aware of the importance of speaking different languages. I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using CLIL activities, because students can become aware of the importance of speaking different languages. anne france anne france I am a teacher on a primary school. To my mind,reflecting about awareness language increases pupil's motivation , and help teachers too Concetta, Sicily Concetta, Sicily Hi everybody, I teach in a secondary school. Because language is used to learn as well as to communicate I realized that it’s possible for my students to learn both a new language and a new subject at the same time. As a language teacher, I need to ensure that students understand all the crucial vocabulary and concepts in my lessons. In short, I must give comprehensible inputs. Moreover, I believe that in a CLIL lesson, language must be approached lexically rather than grammatically and learner styles must be taken into account in task types. I think I’m a LA teacher, so through this course I would like to improve my competences and develop my interests about it. I teach in a secunda I teach in a secundary school attended by adult students. I think it’s important especially for this type of users to reach awareness language to increspasse their skills and be able to position themselves again or better on job market R R Rean, ViennaAlth Rean, Vienna Although body language makes up an important part of our every day conversation in secondary education using spoken language is the key to gaining information. Working in a multilingual school LA has become part of our every day life and needs to be a top priority in training and further education. Mara Zambetti, Italy Mara Zambetti, Italy I'm a science teacher in a secondary school I'm not a LA teacher, i never thought about comon skill in different languages. I have students from foreign countries, but usually they are good italian speaker, not worse than italian mother toungue. Maybe language awareness can help all of us to learn more and open our minds. I am English teacher and think that I am starting to become a LA teacher. I intuitively felt the concept but now I am learning more deeply about it and think of becoming a LA teacher in future. With constant changes I have more children who are bilingual and my LA will help me to help them be more proficient in language learning. I am English teacher and think that I am starting to become a LA teacher. I intuitively felt the concept but now I am learning more deeply about it and think of becoming a LA teacher in future. With constant changes I have more children who are bilingual and my LA will help me to help them be more proficient in language learning. Tea Sisko Claudia Renda, Italy Claudia Renda, Italy Hi, I'm Claudia I teach italian language in CPIA like second language. Learning Awareness is important to every body, teachers and students. I work with adults seeing difficult I am a art teacher in a bilingual school from Bucharest, Romania. It is important to develop this abilities of speaking different languages. I am a art teacher in a bilingual school from Bucharest, Romania. It is important to develop this abilities of speaking different languages. Rute - Portugal Rute - Portugal I´m a primary school teacher and i work in a school that uses the CLIL in their classes. I believe this is a very useful complemente for children to have. I think i need to improve my language awareness and i believe this course will help me learn more and discover other ways to help my students. I am a teacher of french in a lower secondary school. As i teach in multilingual classes, I decided to attend this course to improve my competences in this field. I am a teacher of french in a lower secondary school. As i teach in multilingual classes, I decided to attend this course to improve my competences in this field. Tina, Messina Tina, Messina Hi everybody I teach in a secondary School in Sicily; in my class there are students that come from different countries; they have different linguistic needs and I think all the teachers should use different languages Hello Hello Bilingual school Bilingual school I work in a bilingual school and for most of the children the two operating languages is not their mother tongue. Therefore it is important to try to have consistent ways of delivering instructions across the school so children become familiar with the vocabulary in both languages. It also helps to explain the similarities and differences between the languages to clarify common mistakes. Roberto, Forlì Roberto, Forlì I teach Electronics in a vocational secondary school and I think Language awareness is a key compentece both for me and for my students. For me because: the terminology of Electronics is in English (L2); I teach one module of my subject in English (L2) using CLIL methodology. For my students Language awareness is a key competence for their future professional or scientific career. Aritz, Basque Country6 Aritz, Basque Country6 I'm a pre-school English teacher. Nowadays children are more aware about the wide range of languages and cultures that we have. Here we teach them mainly in Basque , some Spanish and English. Some children also have different mother languages such as; Arabic , French , Portuguese... In my opinion children should be aware of the importance of speaking languages particularly English in order to communicate with everybody (nowadays). Anna Kaya, Sweden Anna Kaya, Sweden I teach newly arrived students (from 9 years old to 16 years old) and I really try to be a language aware teacher. Our students speak different languages and it is important to use all their languages as resources in the classroom. I want to learn more about translanguging and how I can teach so our students can learn the Swedish language and continue to develop knowledge in all school subjects at the same time. Even though I try to think that “All languages are languages for learning” (or: “Alla språk är språk för lärande” in Swedish) it is not that easy to practice in the classroom. Kalima Bassey Kalima Bassey Language awareness is important because we sometimes have new students that come from a country where they speak neither French which is our mother tongue nor English which is the language I teach. Martina, Italy Martina, Italy I'm a primary school teacher. I'm a language-aware teacher: i believe in the importance of introduce more CLIL experiences in the primary from the beginning in order to improve pupil's language skills that they can use daily. Elena FP, Italy Elena FP, Italy I teach Literature and History in a Lyceum, and I also a CLIL teacher. Therefore, I am quite aware of the importance of language awareness, even if I still feel the need to improve my practical skiils and put them into use in the classroom. Adife DEMİRTAŞ Adife DEMİRTAŞ I am a teacher of English in a primary school and I do not think so that I am a language aware teacher. I belive that I have to still need to develop my critical thinking, cultural background of foreign languages I teach... Monica Boccoli Monica Boccoli I think that nowadays we have to think that we are citizens of the world. Every people have a strong link with other people all over the world through the web too. We have to learn other languages, in particular, English, to develop projects to build peace, respect, knowledge in the world. Gianni Lottino Gianni Lottino I'm a frenche teacher in secondary school and I think it's very important to improve student's developpement by using CLIL method across the use of different languages. Normally I use French and English as I prefer for a lesson. It depends on the subject and on the purpose of the lesson Vincenzo M. ITALY Vincenzo M. ITALY I am a teacher who is aware of the importance of languages, because knowledge and power. Only by knowing other languages will we be closer to other peoples. Francesca Palla, ITALY Francesca Palla, ITALY I'm a secondary school Italian teacher, and i had also some experiences in teaching Italian for foreign people in multilingual classrooms. I think that LA in this case could be a very useful competence, in order to manage lessons in different contexts. In my experience, multilingual classrooms give the possibility to create new ways of sharing knowledge. David Navas, Spain David Navas, Spain I am a secondary school teacher. I teach Technology in a bilingual school, although most of the students speak spanish, i am really concerned about being a language-aware. I think that we need to show to our students that we live in a globalized world, and maybe they will be working in a different country in the future. So it is neccesary to show them the importance of learning different languages. Laura Colombo, Italy Laura Colombo, Italy I teach English in a technical secondary school but in my regional area most students speak local dialect at home and Italian is their second language, so they already experience CLIL when studying other subjects. I think I have some language-awareness in the sense that I understand how difficult it can be for a student to learn an additional foreign language. During the lessons I usually make comparison between the three linguistic systems and ask questions to make students aware of similarities or differences. I believe this course can help me acquire strategies and find better teaching solutions. Training language awareness definition Training language awareness definition I'm a project coordinator, I meet students who want to go abroad. The aspects of language awareness I'd like to develop is the capacity to highlight to students the difference between home language and their use and the training language vocabulary and strustures. On the basis that learners and their learning strategies will change over time, I'd like to create a link between the importance to know the appropriate training language abroad and the possibility tyo maximixe thei mobility success Gabriela Turea from Romania Gabriela Turea from Romania I am a French teacher in a high school. I think that language awareness is very important. This week we are celebrating EDL which has become a tradition activity in our school. Our students are involved in many Erasmus projects and step by step they realized the importance of foreign languages. Because knowing a language offers them new opportunities to make new friends, to communicate, to express their ideas, to discover new things. Rovena Trivanović Rovena Trivanović Croatia I'm a secondary school English teacher. Teaching Englsh at grammar school and School for the hotel and catering industry is quite a challenge because my task is to prepare the students to pass their leaving school exam called Državna matura and to provide them with tools and skills needed for a quality communication in the foreign language. That's way it's very important to be aware of the structure and social characteristics of our mother tongue as well as any other foreign language. The foundation in the sense of aquiring the basic rules is essential for any kind of upgrading Özcan TURAN, Türkiye Özcan TURAN, Türkiye I am English teacher I teach both in high school and primary school even between these schools you have to use different language Chiara Sabatini, Italy Chiara Sabatini, Italy Language awareness is a feature that every teachers should know more about, so in this way it will be easier dealing with all the students and pupils in class. These days we are celebrating the EDL in our school and we are trying to do is to let understand the importance of all the languages and not only of English though English is the most used. In doing so also the students from different countries feel happy to share some expressions of their languages with their mates and are not ashamed of it. Said that I really looking forward to go into this matter as deep as we can. Vanessa, Italy Vanessa, Italy Being an English teacher, I basically always reflect on the Common Underlying Language: according to the grade of my students, I adapt my language when talking with them. Ana B. Portuga Ana B. Portuga As a primary teacher in an International School, I have a multicultural class. I think language awareness is very important if you want to provide good oportunities for building knowledge for all students. Sonia in Ireland Sonia in Ireland I agree that language awareness is very important in all classrooms. In my school context we see huge diversity especially in terms of students' L1. As a language teacher I sometimes feel a conflict between a communicative focus and explicit teaching of grammar/pronunciation etc. Within the conversations around grammar students who speak more than one language bring valuable perspectives (CUP) but often need encouragement to see their own backgrounds as an advantage, some are really shy about this difference in experience in fact. I I I'm Delicia Rojas..from Peru.. I'm Delicia Rojas..from Peru.. Even though I think I'm not a Language awareness teacher because there are still different aspects I need to know such as the challenges it takes to become one, but I try to encourage my students to keep learning a language that can break barriers and open new doors. Marisa Badini Italy Marisa Badini Italy I teach English in Primary school as a second language and I deal with pupils from other Countries, or with a Family language different from Italian. That's why I think It's crucial to learn more and more, in order to give more chances to students and have more effective teaching methods. Language diversity is a great opportunity to open to different worlds and a multilingual class is a rainbow to explore. Paola - Florence, Italy Paola - Florence, Italy Hi everybody! I'm an English teacher at a lower secondary school and I'm not sure to be a language-aware teacher... but I try everyday to give some sort of explanation to my students about how English works comparing it to other foreign languages and cultures through examples. Anyway I think this course is the right one to learn and improve my "awareness". Esmeralda Portugal Esmeralda Portugal I´m very sorry not to be a "language aware teacher" . In my student time we did not go deepen a second language. So I´m here to learn very much with this course Annalisa- Italy Annalisa- Italy I teach Italian language and history at the Secondary School. I would like to ameliorate my language awareness. Sharon Australia Sharon Australia We all need to be aware of the language needs that are necessary in a lesson - the language features and structures should be made evident to students so that they can monitor their learning Rosa, Portugal Rosa, Portugal I think I have to learn a lot to be a "language-aware" teacher but i want it very hard, so I´m here to learn! I know that I will enjoy this Course! Clara - Italy Clara - Italy I teach Italian language, history and geography at a Secondary School. It's important to be a language aware teacher? I think so. Nowdays I think that when the student is learning a subject through an additional language they improve their cognitive ability and prepares them for life beyond school. Moreover teaching and learning through an additional language encourages understanding between cultures. At last, a teacher who is ‘language aware’ understands why students have difficulties and what they can do to support them. Mary Mary I think that language awareness develops logical thinking. It's important to comunicate and interact with all people. Raffaela , Italy Raffaela , Italy I don't know if I really understand the meaning of Language awareness, but I'm sure I'm a good teacher when I can look at the world through my students' world views. FRANCESCA ITALY FRANCESCA ITALY I think that LA is the future of the learning because of the demographic globla changing; many of our students dont' speak italian and I believe that this is an opportunity for innovating the learning process Ana Cristina Martins Ana Cristina Martins Paço de Arcos, Portugal You become aware of the importance of language awareness when a first year student aged 5 asks you how do you know that his name is written on a paper just because he doesn't recognize any letter yet... I am a POrtuguese-English teacher, this year have have the bilingual English-Portuguese teaching programme with the first year in my school. I have english, moldavian, chinese and russian students in the classroom.... Sabrina, ItalyAs Sabrina, Italy As I think I’m not aware enough, I’m following these activities in order to learn how to be. I’m a primary school teacher. Giuseppe A, Italy Giuseppe A, Italy Hello! I'm a Math teacher. I believe that being LA teacher is very important in these days. It happen that sometimes the only way you have to talk with some students from abroad is using english language. I do not feel like a LA teacher, because I don't konw many technical words about the subject I teach in English. Esther, Spain Esther, Spain Hola!! My name is Esther and I am teacher trainer. I think it is so important to be aware of all the students` languages at school, at the playgroung, at home...A great opportunity to develop this awareness would be to celebrate the European Day of Languages in two days in class. It is great to give visibility to all our students´languages and students feel great and selfconfidence when they try to communicate in their own language or in their parents´language. ......it is a very richful experience for all the class. Paola,Italy Paola,Italy I think I'm a teacher who is aware of the language because I believe it is the most important goal, but I have several things to learn. A special class A special class Hi, I'm a tea PaOLa PaOLa T Sara, Portugal Sara, Portugal Hi! My name it´s Sara and I´m a kindergarten teacher. I don´t have, in my class, kids that speaks another language but I think that is important learn and improve a foreign language, than you can talk with all the people and help some kids that may stay in your class. In this moment I feel that I need to improve my skills and language awareness develops knowledge and helps you to comunicate and interact with everyone. Bruna (Italy) Bruna (Italy) Science teacher in a secondary technical school, sometimes I use some English in my lessons. Students don't always appreciate. But they're curious about other languages spoken by their foreign fellows, so I think I could use this language awarness to achieve better results and to make them open their mindas Maria Paola Maria Paola Hi, I teach Science and Maths in a secondary school in Ragusa, a small city in the south of Sicily. I think that it is very important to comunicate with foreign students so, with this course I hope to learn new strategies to teach to my students. In my opinion, it could be usefull to introduce new methods and concepts io order to make my pupils aware of language. I hope my students will increase their knowledges and grow up during my lessons. Daniela, Portugal Daniela, Portugal Hi! My name is Daniela Daniel and I’m a Portuguese teacher. I teach English in a public school in Portugal. My students are aged between 9 and 13. As I teach young people they sometimes feel reluctant when I propose talking activities. Nevertheless, I always teach them that the most important of all is the ability to communicate. Of course, that language awareness is very important but, on my point of view, it’s something that we can only develop if we aren’t afraid of saying something that isn’t completely correct in what grammar is concerned, for example. So, in my opinion, communication is, not only much more important than language awareness, but also a way to achieve it. Liana (Italy) Liana (Italy) Hallo! I teach italian language and literature, history and geography in the secondary school. I think to be a language-aware teacher, so through this course I would like to improve my competences and develop my interests about it. In the school context, beeing a language-aware teacher is a way to pay attention on reciprocal style of communication, starting by the use of each word; moreover is an opportunity to involve pupils in the communicative interactions trying to let themselves aware of the differences and similarities and how language is a precious heritage that includes a wider weltanschauung, emotions etc. etc. All those aspects contribute to the general growth of students as persons and citizens of the world, and improve the process of teaching and learning. Mary Mary I think that language awareness develops logical thinking. It's important to comunicate and interact with all people. Lucia,Crotone Lucia,Crotone I think that teacher awareness is a very important skill to help all students to communicate Giuseppina Tumino - Giuseppina Tumino - Italia I’m a Math and Science teacher in an Secondary School. In my classroom there are foreign students, so I think it is very important ti teacher using CLIL language, because so our students can give importance to learning new language. I home this course will give me new strategies and I can to use English language in different situazione. I find this course very important. Sophia Italy Sophia Italy I teach computer science in a technical high-school. I've read an interesting article from https://www.cambridge-community.org.uk/professional-development/gswla/index.html "Being language aware means you understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. These challenges might arise because a student is learning a subject through an additional language or it might be the first time a student has come across certain vocabulary or structures in their first language. A teacher who is ‘language aware’ understands why students face these difficulties and what they can do to support students." I hope to be a "language aware" teacher when teaching my subject in English (CLIL). As I'm not a Language teacher I do not know if I'm effective in supporting my students. Paola, Italy Paola, Italy I think language awareness is crucial to understand that, when we teach learners in a second language, we have to take into consideration that they have different needs from those taught in their first language. Therefore, "language aware" teachers have to be able to include these needs in their teaching and planning. The second language becomes the medium for delivery of the subject message. If learners are not confident using the second language, they may not achieve very well, they may be demotivated, losing their interest in the subject. It's teachers' responsability to make sure that language isn't a barrier to learning and they have to support students, taking into consideration the difference between conversational language (BICS) and academic language (CALP) and overcome this bridge. I need to deepen my knowledge concerning the benefits of teaching and learning through an additional language. Sinan Koru Sinan Koru No I am not, but will be Debora (Italia) Debora (Italia) Hi everybody, I'm a primary school teacher. I think that linguistic diversity can be perceived as a vari valuable pedagogical resource. In this way, the language awareness becomes a precious tool for more efficient and innovative teaching and learning. Catello de Sinno - Italy Catello de Sinno - Italy I'm an English teacher and as language teachers know, there is much more to a language than simply knowing vocabulary and grammar and reproducing them in either written or oral form. By increasing students’ language awareness, the students are better able to understand, appreciate and use the language. Debora (Italia Debora (Italia Hi everybody! I'm Brunella from Italy Brunella from Italy I'm not sure I'm really language aware in my daily work in class. That's why I want to learn more! Diana from Italy Diana from Italy I feel like a language.aware teacher but I need to improve the skills and tools to benefit from different languages in a classroom Maria Grassi, Italy Maria Grassi, Italy It's difficult to express my feelings about myself as a language aware teacher but I think it's important to be a language aware teacher because only if you can understand and find where is the common underlying proficiency between the different languages you can communicate with your students allowing them to achieve excellent results or language skills so I absolutely agree with Cummins theories... Alena, Czechia Alena, Czechia I´d like to become a more language-aware teacher, to learn how to foster BICS and CALP during L2 teaching. The concept of Common Underlying Proficiency seems very helpful for language learning as well. I´m looking forward to digging deeper into different CLIL activities and learning from others what works in their classes. :-) Alessandra, Pordenone - Italy Alessandra, Pordenone - Italy I teach italian, history and geography in a secondary school. In my school there are students with migratory background. I think is very important to improve my languange awareness in order to o improve the language skills of my students. Irene from Rome Irene from Rome Hi my dear collegues I'm a primary's school teacher. I agree about the importance of LA like a tool to development and improve cognitive and social skills in our students. Othermore the LA could help the students to be more self-confident and open-minded about the social and culture diversities. Silvia DM, Italy Silvia DM, Italy Language awareness is a crucial topic when you teach in multilingual classes like me. I hope to learn how to exploit this variety in a positive wayfor the benefit of my students. Daniela from Parma Daniela from Parma I think that language awareness is an important perspective for an English teacher, who can be considered as the "director" of language teaching in a school. If you know more than a language you have got a powerful weapon in your hands and you must learn how to use it! İSHAK KURT - MANİSA - TURKEY İSHAK KURT - MANİSA - TURKEY I see myself as proficient in foreign language. I can speak 3 languages and I can understand. I think that knowing language is very important in learning and teaching processes. If the teacher does not have the language of the audience to teach, learning will fail. language skills are very important for the development of cultural transmission or transfer ability. Otherwise, the messages will not be transferred with the correct channel. Lucia, from Italy - Puglia Lucia, from Italy - Puglia I'm a teacher from primary school. Language awareness is very important not only for foreign language teachers but also for teachers of any subject, like me. Laura Gianfranceschi Laura Gianfranceschi Hi everybody! I am math and science teacher in a secondary school. My students are not used to be aware to the scientific language. I am confident that the CLIL tecniques would be able to stimulate them to use wright languange and to be aware of the chances that they can have. 📎 Document Elisa, form Belluno (ITALY) Elisa, form Belluno (ITALY) Even though ours is a small community, our classes have their share of students with different backgrounds, such as pupils from South America, Eastern Europe countries, China. The majority of these students has arrived in Italy, if not in Belluno, at a very young age, so they present a good linguistic competence when speaking Italian for everyday communication with their peers. Problems emerge, though, when acquiring new concepts or specific lexicon in different subjects (e.g. geography, geology, history) or when writing longer essays in class. To help them work on their difficulties, I often try to create comparative tables, with the same word in italian, English, Sílvia Sílvia I'm a secondary teacher and this year I'm using CLIL to explain Maths in English. I hope that my students will learn not only Maths but also that we can use English to communicate and learn more about other cultures. Iveta Leinberga, Latvia Iveta Leinberga, Latvia Teaching English is like creating an art work. You always have to be creative and flexible to meet your students` needs and to find the best way to their hearts. English language has become an important communication tool in our everyday life as well as in the business world. English language can help learners to access the greatest treasure - knowledge. Teachers have to be aware of the diversity of English language learners, their cultural background. We all perceive and remember information in different ways so different teaching methods should be applied as well. I consider that interpersonal communication skills are of paramount importance in English language teaching. Language awareness has become an important tool in English language teaching and I hope it will continue its development. Antonino, Italy Antonino, Italy Hello, there! I'm a English Teacher in an Italian school. Language Awareness covers a wide spectrum of definition, but I would like to put it in practice, I mean, Everyone should connect language to our brain function and understand that each word has a meaning not only because it defines something, but also because a brain has thought it Athena, Nafpaktos-Greece Athena, Nafpaktos-Greece I ve been working as astate school teacher of english 16 years now and I feel the need to communicate with my students now more than ever.. A multicultural classroom is a phenomenon i come across more and more and i feel that language awareness can help me understand and be understood in a more effective way. Francesca, Italy Francesca, Italy Hi everybody, I'm a secondary school teacher in the suburbs of Milan. I think that acknowledging and embracing language diversity as an enriching factor in our classes, is a key issue and a big challenge for teachers. I like to think I'm a lifelong student, so I'm not sure I'm as "language aware" as I should, but I try to stimulate my students reflections on how English works in order to find differences and similarities between their L1 and the foreign languages they study at school and make learning a relevant experience for them (someone already mentioned Chomsky, and neurolinguistics is what I'm thinking of when I talk about similarities). I hope to find out useful practices and suggestions to make my effort more effective. Mustafa from Turkey Mustafa from Turkey Hello there. I am a secondary school teacher in Turkey. I have students speaking different languages in my class and I would like to take this course to give a better education to these students. Floriana from Italy Floriana from Italy Hi, I'm an italian teacher in a primary school. I think CLIL activities very important because language is a veicle for learning and pupils can to comunicate in other cultures. Ilaria from Italy Ilaria from Italy Clil is a very smart way of learning by doing, by using languages in different activities and topics. I like it a lot! Carmen from Italy Carmen from Italy I am an Italian primary school teacher and I feel like a language aware teacher. It is important to boost enhanced consciousness and sensitivity to the forms and functions of the language. I live and teach in Italy but I am Romanian mother tongue, so that Italian is a second language for me (L2) and English a foreign language. In all three cases I tried out by myself the meaning of formal language (CALP) and also informal communication (BICS). To be aware of language use you need a good preparation in your mother tongue and also a good knowledge of a foreign language; there are linguistic tools that can be transferred from mother tongue or maybe not and it is important to use also the metalinguistic code. Cinzia Italy Cinzia Italy I teach in a secondary school where 50% are students coming from abroad. I always underline how is important to learn other cultures and words in different languages. Last year we realized some short videos to explain easy words in Italian to our Lithuanian partner and they did the same. My students realized how foreign sounds can be difficult to produce and how we can teach our language. I also always underline the importance of dirrent cultures in our classroom as a richness. Floriana from Italy Floriana from Italy Hi, I'm an italian teacher in a primary school. I think CLIL activities are very important because language is a veicle for learning and pupils to Giuseppina Tumino - Giuseppina Tumino - Italy I’m a Science and Math’s teacher in an Italian Secondary School. In my classroom there are some foreign studente, so i think it is very important to’ teacher using CLIL language, beccasse so our students can give importance to learning new languages. I home this course will give me new strategies and I can ti use English language in different situatios. I find this course very important. Gianfranca Italy Gianfranca Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school. I think language awareness is very important to communicate with people and I really need to attend this course to improve my competences, to teach to my students the importance of a well spoken language. MARIA ITALY MARIA ITALY I think that learning a language means not only to know how a new language works but also and above all to understand another culture . All this in some way change and improve your identity. HartmutSchmidtke,Germany HartmutSchmidtke,Germany I am an English teacher at a secondary school and think that language awareness today is more important than 20 years ago. Importance of linguistic diversity Importance of linguistic diversity I think today that classes are increasingly different in origin, language awareness develops logical thinking. It is important to communicate and interact with all people. Alina, Romania My name is Alina ... I am a mathematics-physics-computer science teacher at the gymnasium ... My students learn from primary classes two foreign languages (English and German) but some know Italian or Greek because they spend their holidays with their parents gone to work abroad. Alina, Romania My name is Alina ... I am a mathematics-physics-computer science teacher at the gymnasium ... My students learn from primary classes two foreign languages (English and German) but some know Italian or Greek because they spend their holidays with their parents gone to work abroad. So I think very much in the knowledge, in the expression so that they can demonstrate what they have learned and realized Cinzia Marrone Italy Cinzia Marrone Italy Hi, I’m a primary English teacher and I believe in importance of languages in school curriculum.I think the youngest we start learning, the better we became aware of languages. Maja Maja Language awareness is one of the most important competencies teacher should have in a school like mine, where there are minority students and more and more foreign students. Teacher without this competence could easily affect on students low academic succsess and it is so unfair to thoose students. Ana, Lisbon PT Ana, Lisbon PT My school is a multicultural one, with more than 30 nationalities present. In my classes I always have many nationalities at the same time and I always try to take that in mind and involve each and every student in the learning activities. I also always try tomake my foreign pupils more confortable by learning some key words in their languages, so I can great them or thank them in a more personal way. I hope to learn a lot from this course so I can improuve my practices! Oleg Oleg I live in the border between Czech and Polnad. Almost everybody here speaks both languages. It is very nice. In my school I have students who finished Czech and Polish primary schools. We teach Czech, but I would like to use both languages. Elena Elena I am an Italian guitar teacher. I do not have foreign students in my classroom but I am very interested in this subject anyway. Sarah, UK Sarah, UK We need as teachers to be language aware so we can plan for and meet the needs of individual children. Roberta Roberta I am Roberta and I'm a primary school teacher. I teach Italian and English. I think it is very important to propose clil activities to children even if they are very young Hi, I'm a primary school teacher. I have been teaching English for several years and I have experienced the effectiveness of the connection between the characteristics of the mother tongue and those of the language to learn: I noticed that my pupils learn more easily if the similarities with their own language are highlighted and such learning also remains long time away. in my practice I try to promote this "game of similarities and differences" as much as possible because I believe that learning a new language also passes through this awareness. Hi, I'm a primary school teacher. I have been teaching English for several years and I have experienced the effectiveness of the connection between the characteristics of the mother tongue and those of the language to learn: I noticed that my pupils learn more easily if the similarities with their own language are highlighted and such learning also remains long time away. in my practice I try to promote this "game of similarities and differences" as much as possible because I believe that learning a new language also passes through this awareness. Serena from Italy Serena from Italy Hi, I'm a support teacher (Special Needs) I think the language awareness is important for all the teachers in the different subjects, we need each of the different languages that students speak in class. Zorica S. Zorica S. I am a teacher in a secendory school. Being aware of the language, means being aware of all the opportunities provided by that language.. I think that language awareness is very needed to better comunicate and use language skills. My opinion is that it is very important to speak different languages. Paola T.,Palestrina(Roma, Italy) Paola T.,Palestrina(Roma, Italy) Hi! I teach Art History in Secondary School. CLIL is a very important approach to teaching the content of curricular subjects through the medium of a non native language. Languages awareness Languages awareness Being a Portuguese English teacher I try to improve my confidence in the learning/teaching process so that I can share my experiences and knowledge with others, students and teachers!! So, language awareness, is a powerful tool to be successful in our professional life!! It allows us to understand and be understood!! Hi there Hi there I am Mariagrazia and I teach science and geography in CLIL and also English as a Foreign language. I have been teaching clil for two years so far and I feel i am becoming more and more language aware: I mean I can discover the limguistic world of my multilingua classes...I think that teaching using different language ... that is for example using code swiching...is really great for children and can be really DEMOCRATIC ...I mean no language is more important than others... Maria A Maria A Maria A. Maria A. Palau,Sardinia Italy I teach Italian and English in a Primary School. I feel even more convinced about the importance of being language aware. I'm very happy to have the opportunity to teach both Italian and English,I hope to improve my knowledge thanks to this course. I'm Laura, a primary teacher from Italy I'm Laura, a primary teacher from Italy Language is a vehicle for learning. It is through language that learners access the content of the lesson and communicate their ideas. So, as teachers, it's our responsibility to make sure that language isn’t a barrier to learning. One way to achieve this is to become more ‘language aware’. Being language aware means that we understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. A teacher who is ‘language aware’ understands why students face some difficulties and what they can do to support them. Mara, Capri Island, Italy Mara, Capri Island, Italy I'm an English teacher at secondary schools. I think it is important to be language-aware also because in the last years we are experiencing the presence of many students coming from different countries with different cultures and languages. Being language-aware means also to respect them and make any possible efforts of speak to their hearts and not only to their heads! Chiara, Italy Chiara, Italy I teach Italian, I try to be a language-aware teacher because languages are beautiful and through the words you can understand people. Gla Gla Gladiola Bondar, Borca - Romania Gladiola Bondar, Borca - Romania Hello! I'm a teacher in a primary school. I think it is very important for my students to become aware of language. My students learn to become aware of the language through active listening, explaining new words, making new statements, telling what they have read ... Language awareness develops logical thinking, imagination, students are more creative. Students cooperate on lessons, interact, learn together. Dzeina, a native Latvian teaching English in Spain Dzeina, a native Latvian teaching English in Spain Language awareness is an extremely important and many times overlooked aspect of learning. There are both stimulating and a little bit stifling practices at the school where I teach, trying to reach bilingualism (Spanish-Englisih) without translanguaging elements such as translation, which in my opinion are vital in becoming language aware. There are non-native students who do not receive the necessary amount of support for acquiring English and or Spanish, and their cultural and linguistic heritage tends to be overlooked unfairly. Having said that: I must admit that multilingual classrooms and multicultural education environment ca both be stimulating and exhausing at the same time. I am looking forward to learning some strategies to make my teaching life a bit easier. Cheers to all my colleagues from all over Europe! Irina Zama, Romania Irina Zama, Romania I'm a teacher of English and as part of my job I teach high school students but also younger ones privately and I have prepared many students for Cambridge exams. Teaching a language to students whose mother tongue you do not know can be really challenging. However, during my 2 months teaching in England to multilingual groups (Italian and Spanish) was really revealing for me. I realised it is much easier to teach students who have your own mother tongue than those who don't. Also, as I have a pretty good command of Italian and Spanish too, and of their culture, it was easier for me to teach them than teaching Chinese students. Knowing the cultural background and being aware of language differences can be helpful in reaching out to the students and getting through to them José Carlos Lopes, Guarda, Portugal José Carlos Lopes, Guarda, Portugal As a Guarda citizen, a little city next to the border of Spain, I grew up watching both Portuguese and Spanish TV. So I'm very confortable with Spanish language. As a 21st century citizen I learned english and french in school. Of course English should be everyone's second language in order to everyone could have a common language and feel like a real European citizen. Nowadays everybody in one way or another, better or worse, can understand basic english. We also know that language learning is much easier in early ages so, as a teacher I can only be language-awared for the languages I really feel prepared for. It´s not easy for a portuguese teacher to be prepared to communicate with a morocan, a sirian or with an iraquian pupil. But I also think that most of everyone can, nowadays, communicate in english. So, if it is the case, I think I can be aware and prepared to have a multilingual classroom with more than one language and teach in this environment. Vicky Archondi, Greece Vicky Archondi, Greece Being an English teacher and a linguist presupposes a certain degree of language awareness. However, for me language awareness goes hand in hand with culture awareness. So, if I wish to understand and learn my students' mother tongues , I should first of all be willing to embrace their cultures' wonders and secrets. Magda Uleia , Romania Magda Uleia , Romania I teach Math and ITC and my first meet with languages it was in the front of computer - at the beginning all was in english... WOW , I have studied only French and Deutch in school. Step by step I have learn English , I have start some projects on eTwinning , Comenius, Erasmus . Without languages all that was impossible! I study everyday in Math , in languages , in sociology. It is very nice , we still remained in contact with our students! Every day I try to prove to my studets that all we learn in school is important for us , for our future . Moreno, Rieti, Italy Moreno, Rieti, Italy I don't feel so much confident about langiage. I am a science field teacher so I have a good practice about the technical language that I use for my purpouse but not so much about the real grammar and technical rules Hi, everyone! Hi, everyone! I Think that I have to improve much more my language awareness in a double way: as a student and consequently as a teacher (we don't stop studying as teachers). It's clear that in a class composed by pupils coming from different countries and speaking at home a language different from the national one it Will be a bit different for the teacher be able to offer the right linguistica support to everyone But I'm here to try to learn it! Maria Grazia Monteleone Italy Hi, everyone. Greetings from Portugal (Eduarda ) Hi, everyone. Greetings from Portugal (Eduarda ) In my own perspective I believe I have still a long way to go as far as being language aware. I do feel the need to learn a lot more about this topic as the school I'm teaching is attended by different ethnies.Therefore I do need to learn a lot. But that's what being a teacher means: constantly learni g According to me, lan According to me, language awareness is a great opportunity for teachers and students. Angela Italy Angela Italy My pre-school class is multiethnic and I think LA is essential. Small children can learn easily. . . Hanife, Turkey Hanife, Turkey I am an English teacher in a secondary school. LA is very important that we explore during the process. I want to give my pupils experiences that expand their creativity, social skills and cultural scope. It is an exciting experince to explore another culture, language and a way of living. It is also important for pupils to learn through authentic communication. So, laening a language requires a language awareness during the learning process. Ayşe,Turkey Ayşe,Turkey I am a teacher in pre-primary and primary school. I think the students aware of everything and they can speak new language easily. I applied Clil in my school and my students addict this method so it can apply easily. Angela Italy Angela Italy At the moment I'm a pre-school teacher but I thought English also in primary and secondary school. Dimitra P., Greece Dimitra P., Greece Hello, everyone! What I think on the matter is that the world is constantly changing and, of course, the new era is more demanding both on learners and on teachers. Nowadays, we recognize that all European citizens should have sufficient knowledge of at least three European languages, which means that, above all, they need to conquer the capacity of language learning in an early stage of life (at least according to Chomsky). To understand the “deeper” structures of our mother tongue is crucial and it doesn’t happen by accident. To some people it doesn’t happen at all during their life –time. Bilinguals and multilinguals have a benefit over this, as Cummins and other scholars have suggested. Even more the linguistic landscape of Europe is bound to change, due to migration. Language awareness will be highly important, as language is a vehicle for culture. I believe that a teacher who is aware of linguistic deep structures, will be more equipped to help diverse pupils to enculturate to new ethnic/cultural backgrounds. Brigida Calise Brigida Calise I'm a secondary school teacher. My classes are multiethnic. In my opionion LA is essential and I absolutely agree with the definition of LA as the explicit knowledge about language, and conscious perception and sensitivity in language learning, language teaching and language use. I feel like a language-aware teacher and I try my best to improve. Having students who speak different languages is a powerful tool to enhance, exchange and motivate language learning. the students... I like ac the students... I like active participation in classes and to know their opinions about topics we learn together. According to me, teaching means "always learning" and the first questions to my students are: "Do you like foreign languages? did you go abroad? would you like to live abroad in the future?" Moreover, learning a foreign language means learning another culture and have another point of view. For sure, I need to improve teaching strategies (everyone has always to improve something) but I think to be "language-aware" :) Caterina fantini Caterina fantini Italy I'm a primary school teacher. I have a multiethnic class and the diversity of languages is very important to enrich the work. Students open their minds and know other cultures. Maria Jastrząb Maria Jastrząb I'm early primary education teacher. Learning and teaching languages is a great opportunity to expand your horizons. It's amazingly valuable both for teachers and students. Lu, English teacher (Italy) Lu, English teacher (Italy) I'm an English teacher in a Secondary School. I've worked with students coming from different countries and I think that LA is essential to motivate the students... I like active participation in classes and to know their opinions about topics we learn together. According to me, teaching means "always learning" and the first questions to my students are: "Do you like foreign languages? did you go abroad? would you like to live abroad in the future?" Moreover, learning a foreign language means learning another culture and have another point of view. For sure, I need to improve teaching strategies (everyone has always to improve something) but I think to be "language-aware" :) FILOMENA BIANCO, ITALY FILOMENA BIANCO, ITALY I feel I'm a language-aware teacher, being a teacher of English in a middle secondary school, where - students speak their local dialect and Italian - students learn two foreign languages, English and French or Spanish - the number of foreign students is increasing more and more İMRAN ARSLAN TÜRKİYE. İlkokulda çalışıyorum. Ülkemizde etnik kökeni farklı bir çok insan yaşamakta, farklı diller ve kültürler bizleri ayrıştırmıyor. Bütünleştiriyor. Farklı dillerde müzikler, sanatsal etkinlikler kültürümüzü zenginleştiriyor. Bir lisan bir insan iki lisan iki insan. Ben de kendi dilimde düşüncelerimi sizinle paylaştım. İMRAN ARSLAN TÜRKİYE. İlkokulda çalışıyorum. Ülkemizde etnik kökeni farklı bir çok insan yaşamakta, farklı diller ve kültürler bizleri ayrıştırmıyor. Bütünleştiriyor. Farklı dillerde müzikler, sanatsal etkinlikler kültürümüzü zenginleştiriyor. Bir lisan bir insan iki lisan iki insan. Ben de kendi dilimde düşüncelerimi sizinle paylaştım. I am soon to become I am soon to become a teacher and I think that learning different languages is very beneficial for incorporating new methods and concepts for our students.we can provide alternatives to students and make them understand well. Giuseppina V. Italy Giuseppina V. Italy Honestly I don’t know whether I feel like a language-aware teacher or not. I believe it is important being aware of the differences between Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) whether you teach in your mother tongue or teach in the target language (i.e. CLIL) or teach Italian as a second language to foreign students. Hi I am JESÚS from Spain and I teach English in infant level , what you can learn from them is amazing seing them speak in a new language , how they improve their motivation to do it right, so to teach a child a new way to create communication is something that can not be compare with nothing else in the world. Hi I am JESÚS from Spain and I teach English in infant level , what you can learn from them is amazing seing them speak in a new language , how they improve their motivation to do it right, so to teach a child a new way to create communication is something that can not be compare with nothing else in the world. Michela, I Michela, I Michela, I Michela, I Michela, I'm an Michela, I'm an Hande Türker Hande Türker Hi, I am an English teacher in a Secondary School in Turkey. I think i am a LA teacher with not many specifications:)To be honest, I am aware but i don't have many ideas to apply this knowledge into the lessons.I've been working for five years but i haven't had students with different languages but i want to improve myself in creating new athmospheres in the classroom. I want to prepare myself for the future because i may have students like that. And if not, i think i have to be more aware what is going on in the world and what the new aspects towards education are. In order to improve the students' language skills, teachers have to know about their way of thinking and understanding the world around. So, i wish i will learn new ways of applying effective methods in language classrooms. Anna, Italy. I'm a teacher for special need. Improving the language awareness helps to communicate with people with different culture. This can help to reach the acceptance of diversity and the best coexistence of different cultures. It manages to approach different cultures and try to understand them and know them not to be afraid of them. Anna, Italy. I'm a teacher for special need. Improving the language awareness helps to communicate with people with different culture. This can help to reach the acceptance of diversity and the best coexistence of different cultures. It manages to approach different cultures and try to understand them and know them not to be afraid of them. Michela, I'm an English teacher and I thin Michela, I'm an English teacher and I thin Michela, I'm an English teacher and Ith Michela, I'm an English teacher and Ith Michela, I'm an English teacher and Michela, I'm an English teacher and Michela, I'm an English teacher and I think Michela, I'm an English teacher and I think Michela, I'm an English teacher and I think being la Michela, I'm an English teacher and I think being la Ela, Poland Ela, Poland First of all I would like to say that bilingual education is more and more popular in my country. I am history, literature teacher and English as well. So, I can teach bilingual education. I try to do it time to time, for example when we disscusing about book which is written by English writer. Polish lessons have English language component. It is ocassion to improve language awareness. Secondly, I have travelled a lot, so my travel experience is very useful for teaching. I have got some ainteresting educational materials, e.g. leaflets, maps, short films. I use it in different way but generally it helps to gain students to cultural and linguistics competence. Mihaela, romania Mihaela, romania SPEAKING IN MORE LANGUAGES FOLLOWS MORE TO HIS SUFLET AND THAT YOU ARE ENOUGH TO EXPRESS AND MAKE YOUR FORCE Lucy (Italy Lucy (Italy I'm a geografy teacher in a secondary school Giedre (Lithuania) Giedre (Lithuania) I'm an English teacher. I teach from 2nd to 8th grades students in progymnasium. I think it's important to make my students aware of communicating languages. And also I think I will learn more teaching methodology in this course. Maria Goreti Silva Rocha (Portugal) Maria Goreti Silva Rocha (Portugal) I teach physics and chemistry. In my opinion is very important that students become aware of the importance of speaking english and other languages to understand the global world in which they live. I use CLIL to teach the disciplinary contents, the learning of the English language is assumed transversally. I hope to learn more about CLIL during this course. Michela, chemistry teacher from Italy. Michela, chemistry teacher from Italy. On my opinion, teaching in languages different from our mothertongue is very important for both teachers and students. Students with a good L. A. have a lot of benefits in term of, for example, development of brain skills or acquisition of new ways of perceiving the world. Francesca Italy Francesca Italy I'm an english Teacher, The best way to make students understand that speaking a lanuage is an ability, the aim of which is communicate, there's no way out ,the best thing to do is to do a lot of practice and to have a reason why you want to learn to speak that Language , you mustn't be obliged to study it!!! , Linda Linda I teach in a secondary school. I would like to improve communicating more effectively with students who do not speak the main language of instruction G G Giuseppina (Italy) Giuseppina (Italy) I'm a teacher of Scienze and Math in a secondary school and living in Ragusa (Sicily). I think that is very important nowadays to be a language-aware teacher because of our world is every time more international and every school because a mix of cultures of all over world R R I am a teacher in the primary school Hi everybody! I'm Alessia and I teach English as a second language in Primary School. I live and work in North Italy. In my classes I have to cope with language and cultural diversity quite often since lots of my students have a different linguistic background. I strongly support the idea that being aware of those difference and, above all, bieng able to "use" them to improve my lessons is vital to improve my teaching practice. Hi everybody! I'm Alessia and I teach English as a second language in Primary School. I live and work in North Italy. In my classes I have to cope with language and cultural diversity quite often since lots of my students have a different linguistic background. I strongly support the idea that being aware of those difference and, above all, bieng able to "use" them to improve my lessons is vital to improve my teaching practice. hi! I am Carmen, a teacher of English from Romania. I think I am a teacher aware of language, but still have a great desire and grit to learn more in order to assist my students better. hi! I am Carmen, a teacher of English from Romania. I think I am a teacher aware of language, but still have a great desire and grit to learn more in order to assist my students better. Sylwia, Poland Sylwia, Poland Hello everyone I'm the teacher of English in primary and secondary school. The LA gives conscious in language learning, motivates to use language in diffrent situations. Hi everybody, Hi everybody, I'm Alessia and I teach English as a second language in Primary School. I live and work in North Italy. In my lessons I have to cope with students of different backgrounds and different languages: quite often Italian is their second language. I hope this course will help me to "use" cultural and language diversity to improve my lessons I'm a psychology teacher and I try to give many importance to my students's language as in italian as in a foreign language. It's importan use language like a way to go inner the mind and the earth of students. I'm a psychology teacher and I try to give many importance to my students's language as in italian as in a foreign language. It's importan use language like a way to go inner the mind and the earth of students. I am a primary school teacher. It is my second year at this level (I was a Romanian teacher). I am a primary school teacher. It is my second year at this level (I was a Romanian teacher). I teach Italian as L I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Teaching helps me to reflect on my mother tongue as well as on the other foreign languages. Learning a different language develops critical thinking, increases appreciation for a different culture and language and at the same time it develops the ability of better communnication and understanding. Costina, Heidelberg Daisy (Italy Daisy (Italy I'm a language teacher in a secondary school, I'd like to reflect on the usage of the language I'm currently teaching (English and German); I think this course will improve my teaching skills, making me more aware of language diversity, with a change of perspective and a deeper insight in this topic. Marco (Italy) Marco (Italy) I'm a Math and Science teacher at an Italian middle school (10-13 years). I have always been aware of the importance to know foreign languages, especially English, to be able to interact with everybody in the world, thus improving the own culture and open mindedness. However, after becoming a teacher, I realized even more how important is the knowledge of foreign languages to set up a school environment which is really inclusive. Now, I would need some technical hints more on how CLIL methodology could be introduced in a course to be effective. Marco Vitiello, Ascoli Piceno I'm a teacher in the Primary School and I'm deeply persuaded about the importance to teach foreign languages in this School and to develope Language Awareness. There are a lot of reasons we could say to support this affirmation, and these reasons touch surely several areas of the Human and Social Being. I'd like to write here only three words: self-consciousness, power and freedom. I'm a teacher in the Primary School and I'm deeply persuaded about the importance to teach foreign languages in this School and to develope Language Awareness. There are a lot of reasons we could say to support this affirmation, and these reasons touch surely several areas of the Human and Social Being. I'd like to write here only three words: self-consciousness, power and freedom. Diana Nicoletta (Italy, Sicily) Nicoletta (Italy, Sicily) I'm a Tecnology's teacher in a secondary school. I think it is very important to teach using the activities of the Clil to speak in a universal way with the students Cinzia (Sicily) I'm a Math and Science's teacher in a secondary school of Ragusa, i think it's important teaching using CLIL language to communicate with all my students specially with foreign students Cinzia (Sicily) I'm a Math and Science's teacher in a secondary school of Ragusa, i think it's important teaching using CLIL language to communicate with all my students specially with foreign students G G Gökhan (Turkey) Gökhan (Turkey) I'm a teacher in a secondary school. I think CLIL activities are very important. Because so our students can give importance to learning new languages. Ciro ( Italy) Ciro ( Italy) Hi everyone. I'm Ciro, 35 yo, from South of italy and living in Milan as a teacher of Italian literature and History. To me different languages are the medium. the link to the wolrld because, by them, it's possible to aim a different view on our life improving who we are and devoloping who will be. Speaking in different language make us more confidential to the others, more open-minded and theese can also help us teacher to better interconnect with a worlwide school pupils. I'm a teacher in a primar I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using CLIL activities, because students can become aware of the importance of speaking different languages. I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using CLIL activities, because students can become aware of the importance of speaking different languages. İMRAN ARSLAN TÜRKİYE. İlkokulda çalışıyorum. Ülkemizde etnik kökeni farklı bir çok insan yaşamakta, farklı diller ve kültürler bizleri ayrıştırmıyor. Bütünleştiriyor. Farklı dillerde müzikler, sanatsal etkinlikler kültürümüzü zenginleştiriyor. Bir lisan bir insan iki lisan iki insan. Ben de kendi dilimde düşüncelerimi sizinle paylaştım. İMRAN ARSLAN TÜRKİYE. İlkokulda çalışıyorum. Ülkemizde etnik kökeni farklı bir çok insan yaşamakta, farklı diller ve kültürler bizleri ayrıştırmıyor. Bütünleştiriyor. Farklı dillerde müzikler, sanatsal etkinlikler kültürümüzü zenginleştiriyor. Bir lisan bir insan iki lisan iki insan. Ben de kendi dilimde düşüncelerimi sizinle paylaştım. Lucy (Italy Lucy (Italy I'm a geografy teacher in a secondary school think is important teaching C.l.i.l. think is important teaching C.l.i.l. Ipermahia Christodoulou , Greece Ipermahia Christodoulou , Greece I'm a primary school English Language teacher. In my opinion is that we should care of the L1 the language that a child speaks and hears as mother tongue, the L Roberta (Italy) Roberta (Italy) I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy learning a new language Eda Harp Zübari,Turkey Eda Harp Zübari,Turkey I am an English Language Teacher.I work in the southeastern of Turkey.The city has a lot of refugees from Syria.That is why,some of my students are Syrians.Some of them knows Turkish and English but most of them dont know either.We have difficulty in communication.The course may help me how to deal with this situation.Besides,almost all of my students doesnt Elín Iceland Elín Iceland I am taking my first steps in teaching foreign kids Icelandic. I like to know what to do for each ages. When start grammar and witch way. Caterina from Italy Caterina from Italy I'm a teacher in a primary school, in my class there're pupils from Marocco, Pakistan, Romania, Poland, and also one pupil with an Italian father an a Brazilian mother. I hope to improve my language aware during this course, to dive in the languages' ocean and discover the common underlying proficiency. Veronica, teacher -to Veronica, teacher -to I’m still not a teacher, but I’m studying to become a teacher in primary school. I think that is very important nowadays to be a language-aware teacher because of our world is every time more international and every school becomes a mix of cultures of all over the world. Furthermore, languages are every day more important for the professional and private life of everyone. Like a teacher, I think it could be great to let the children discover things about languages in the world, and let the children that know more than one language express themselves about their mother tongue. This will also permit us, like teaches, to understand more them like person, to understand the way they think, to help them doing connections to learning the language of the city where they live now, and to introduce them and the other children to an open-mind thinking. I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Learning another language improves the critical thinking, encourage cultural appreciation and increase I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Learning another language improves the critical thinking, encourage cultural appreciation and increase experience from other cou experience from other countries, with longer history of multilingual schools. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. Alina, Romania Roberta from Italy Roberta from Italy I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students, and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy studying a new langua R R Gina , Italy Gina , Italy I'm a teacher in secondary high school and unfortunately many of my students have problems with their mother tongue language and therefore English is difficult to face in the classroom. So LA is mandatory to learn news ways to get them motivated. I w I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. Federica Tagliafichi Federica Tagliafichi I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I teach English in a I teach English in a Primary School and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides,language diversity allows facing with people of different countries and cultures, so that our pupils can estend their knowledge. Stefania Stefania I'm a teacher in a primary school. I believe that it is our responsability to make the second language learning more enjoyable, trying to eliminate the difficulties and understand what we can do to support students. I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures Martina Martina Martina from Italy Martina from Italy Different languages, different cultures, different people! Our job is amazing. We have the possibility to spread the knowledge and the love for the human being. MariaM - Gaeta, Italy MariaM - Gaeta, Italy I’m a primary school teacher and I do believe that language is a vehicle for learning. This year I'm teaching English in a fifth class and I will experience some CLIL activities, so that my pupils can understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. he classroom. I want my s he classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Carolina From Italy Carolina From Italy I'm a teacher ,I teach English in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Lia from Italy Lia from Italy I am an English teacher at Primary School. I am aware of language development. I think that working in very multicultural contexts helped me a lot. Patrícia, Porto, Portugal Patrícia, Porto, Portugal I teach Portuguese and English and I work with young learners and teenagers too. I try to be very active with my students when it comes to language awareness... When we are working together we know that language is culture, language is identity, communication... And I try to share my passion with them, so they too will want to learn different languages, travel, meet new people... Lia MOlini from ITaly Lia MOlini from ITaly Pizzi Mariagle Pizzi Mariagle Italy I'm a French teacher in a secondary school and as we a have students with special needs or ADHD students I find very difficult planning lessons for a so wide diversity of students. But languages are too much important in these 10 last years and it's important to find to involve everybody. inci Süzer, Turkey inci Süzer, Turkey whenever my students ask "why do we learn English, does English kids learn Turkish aswell?" it makes me think learning a second language mustn't be an obligation. I have to sth to make it more charming , I need to show them that a new language is a door of a new world, new people , new cultures. inci inci Anna Rita Anna Rita I teach English in a secondary school, I find it difficult teaching English as a second Language and even giving my lessons in English because we have so different kids with special needs. Sometimes I see my best student feeling bored and I would like to give them more in order to increase their Language awareness. Carla Machado, Portugal Carla Machado, Portugal I teach English in a secondary school. And yes! I feel like a language-aware teacher. I have several students from other countries and sometimes I think the American melting pot has become a global one. So, I am truly prepared to welcome my students with different Hellos :) and I know they love it. They feel home! Lia, Italy Lia, Italy I teach English in a secondary school. I do have students with a very low background, who barely speak Italian, besides foreign students and last but not least students with special needs. Having said that, I need to be a language aware teacher and constanty switching from one code to another in order to involve all my students. Lucia, Ita Lucia, Ita I teach Maths and Physics in a secondary school. I believe it is fundamental for students whose first language is different from the language of schooling because they will be supported by subject teachers who have a much better understanding of the role that language plays in knowledge building. I am a teacher in pr I am a teacher in primary school. I am teaching language subject in the classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Being aware of the diversity of languages learners helps a teacher to recognize the differences in behavior and attitude of learners and how to pattern his teaching. Tiziana Varone, Ita Tiziana Varone, Ita I'm a ¨language-aware¨ teacher: I believe in the benefits coming from learning a second tongue, first of all the freedom to travel and work all over the world; I also think that living language diversity in classroom is an added value of the school experience, because it compells students and teachers to really do the effort to communicate in the language of the other and to daily practice a foreign language I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. Varvara Gashenko, Latvia Varvara Gashenko, Latvia i teach English and German in a secondary professional school and i need this course because i would like to use different CLIL activities at my lessons in order to make them more interested in English I I Odarka Kukite, Latvia Odarka Kukite, Latvia i teach English and French in a secondary professional school and i need this course in order to help my foreign students to improve their language awareness. Alessandra Amideo, Alessandra Amideo, ITALY I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian language and literature. Yes, I feel like a teacher who is attentive to the language. I think it is important to be a teacher who knows the language because it gives you the awareness of mastering it and consequently transmitting it to the students. . Roberta Di Pietro, Italy Roberta Di Pietro, Italy I teach in the primary school and to some extent, I think to be a language aware teacher. Luckily, I studied languages and I've been abroad learning in other languages. This influence my way of approachingbilingual students. However I know I can still improve and I hope this course will give me further information and help me finding more effective strategies to teach to my students and help them improve their learning methods and their language awareness, those who are bilingual and those who aren't, to help them become better citizens. Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) I teach English in a primary school with a small number of pupils from foreign countries. I believe it is fundamental to implement linguistic awareness for the purposes of integration and inclusion, important educational values to be transmitted. Rosy (Italy) Rosy (Italy) I am a teacher in a secondary school in Catania. I work with guys who have special needs and in my classroom there are only two foreign students. I Think that language awareness is important for every teacher and usefull to help pupils whose first language is different from the school's one. It is important not only to teach a foreign language but also to make pupils aware of the cultures of other school mates. School is not only a place where everyone acquires knowledge, but also a place where one learns to live together and builds common values . So that, everyone can find our place in classroom. Federica (Italy) Federica (Italy) I feel like a language-curious teacher rather than being aware of language diversity in my classroom. I still need to readapt my teaching to capture more effectively those who are bilingual and also to make Italian mother tongue students aware of their peers' difficulties Mariateresa De Mattia Mariateresa De Mattia I'm a teacher in an Italian school at Foggia.In my classroom i work with pupils who have special needs and so I think that language awareness is very important to comunicate and help them in their difficulties Alex_PT Alex_PT I am an EFL teacher in Portugal in a rural area, and even though we haven’t had many immigrants, the truth is that in the last – let’s say – two years, we’ve welcome some eastern Europeans, but basically, Brazilians. These students are all having extra classes in Portuguese in order to be able to comply and in what concerns my subject English as a Foreign Language, they are also problematic. I believe I am a language-aware teacher, conscious that my sts’ proficiency varies according to the context and subject – in Portuguese or English! Nevertheless, I have no doubts that if I was native-born or had more opportunities for local professional development, I would certainly acquire not only a more accurate language sensitivity but also have a better, improved perception of sociocultural aspects. Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy I'm a teacher in an Italian Primary School. In my school there are children who came from different parts of world, especially from China. There are also many pupils whit special needs. In my opinion, the language awareness is very important to help these students in their difficulties. I'ld like to improuve my knowledge for my job and for the benefit of children. Claudia Mazzone -Italy Claudia Mazzone -Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school in Naples. I work with guys who have particular needs. In the class where I teach there are students who come from different parts of the world. I'd like to improve my linguistic skills, because I think that the language awareness is a fundamental way to communicate with foreigners students, to check out their abilities and difficulties, in the way to make them feel part of the class, with benefits for their schoolmates and teachers. Rita Xuereb, Malta Rita Xuereb, Malta I am a Kindergarten Educator in a Maltese Public School, and our school population consists mainly of immigrants from all over the world. It's very difficult to communicate in Maltese so we use English as our common language. It’s also very interesting to observe how these 3-5 year olds communicate with each other in spite of their multicultural and language diversity. I would like to learn how to take advantage of this reality for the benefit of the children. RITA LUISO -ITALY RITA LUISO -ITALY I am a teacher in a technical school where there are a lot of immigrant and I try to make them aware of the importance of knowledge of a language to communicate to the other. In my classroom there different students with special needs and I'd like to improve my knowledge to help these students Daniela Galea, Malta Daniela Galea, Malta I am a primary teacher at Marsascala Primary School in Malta. My school is one of the most multicultural schools on our island that's why I think it is very important to make students aware of the importance of communicating through language. Martina Tettamanzi, Italy Martina Tettamanzi, Italy I am a teacher in an Italian Secondary School. I'm willing to improve my knowledge about communication and language awaress in order to help foreing students to learn a new language. I am a teacher in se I am a teacher in secondary school to students with special needs and I think it’s very important and useful to explore the communicative resources in the classroo I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. That is why I think it is important to get to your pupils/students and make them aware of the importance of communicate through language, any language. Daniela Roversi Daniela Roversi I teach German in an Italian Secondary school. I think, it's very useful, that the teacher remembers, how he/she learnt a foreign language, when he/she was at school. Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta I am a primary teacher in the tiny island of Gozo. Our mother tongue is Maltese and our second language is English. We start teaching both languages to our students from a very young age. Maltese, our mother language is part of our identity and culture, however English helps us communicate with the rest of the world. Filomena Montella, Italy Filomena Montella, Italy I am a teacher of Italian language and literature and history in secondary school. I strongly believe in the value of language as an important element of communication, that is, "putting in common" a message and having the right feedback HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY I am a teacher in a country where immigrants live intensively. I have a lot of information about this. I think I need more information about this. I find this course very important. more_vert LORETTA LORETTA I AM A SCIENCE TEACHER IN A SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ITALY. I THINK THAT LANGUAGE CAN HELP ME TO COMMUNICATE WITH STUDENTS THAT DO NOT SPEAK THE MAIN LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION Maren, Germany Maren, Germany I am a soon to be teacher in high school. Many Students are facing difficulties in their first language and hence in learning new languages. Being language aware of ALL languages surrounding children is super important in order to provide every student with the help that is necessary to succeed in language acquisition. Gabriella,Italy Gabriella,Italy I teach maths and science in a junior high school in Naples. In my opinion the students that use CLIL activities will have more opportunities in the future for their jobs, but olso for their life because they will become really European Citizen Rosamaria Teodorani Rosamaria Teodorani I'm a primary school teacher in Rome. I believe in the importance of Learning languages as a language is the key to get in a culture, explore it, experience diversity and open your mind. To learn languages it makes you undertand that all cultures have devoloped similar logical structures to communicate, that there are lots of similarities. It is a an exciting experience. Julia, Poland Julia, Poland I am a trainer for teachers working with children with immigration experience (usually from Ukraine). Our systhem of education is just on the beginning with that subject. I think that it is very important to use experience from other countries, with longer history of multilingual schools. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. Alina, Romania Roberta from Italy Roberta from Italy I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students, and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy studying a new langua R R Gina , Italy Gina , Italy I'm a teacher in secondary high school and unfortunately many of my students have problems with their mother tongue language and therefore English is difficult to face in the classroom. So LA is mandatory to learn news ways to get them motivated. I w I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. Federica Tagliafichi Federica Tagliafichi I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I teach English in a I teach English in a Primary School and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides,language diversity allows facing with people of different countries and cultures, so that our pupils can estend their knowledge. Stefania Stefania I'm a teacher in a primary school. I believe that it is our responsability to make the second language learning more enjoyable, trying to eliminate the difficulties and understand what we can do to support students. I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures Martina Martina Martina from Italy Martina from Italy Different languages, different cultures, different people! Our job is amazing. We have the possibility to spread the knowledge and the love for the human being. MariaM - Gaeta, Italy MariaM - Gaeta, Italy I’m a primary school teacher and I do believe that language is a vehicle for learning. This year I'm teaching English in a fifth class and I will experience some CLIL activities, so that my pupils can understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. he classroom. I want my s he classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Carolina From Italy Carolina From Italy I'm a teacher ,I teach English in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Lia from Italy Lia from Italy I am an English teacher at Primary School. I am aware of language development. I think that working in very multicultural contexts helped me a lot. Patrícia, Porto, Portugal Patrícia, Porto, Portugal I teach Portuguese and English and I work with young learners and teenagers too. I try to be very active with my students when it comes to language awareness... When we are working together we know that language is culture, language is identity, communication... And I try to share my passion with them, so they too will want to learn different languages, travel, meet new people... Lia MOlini from ITaly Lia MOlini from ITaly Pizzi Mariagle Pizzi Mariagle Italy I'm a French teacher in a secondary school and as we a have students with special needs or ADHD students I find very difficult planning lessons for a so wide diversity of students. But languages are too much important in these 10 last years and it's important to find to involve everybody. inci Süzer, Turkey inci Süzer, Turkey whenever my students ask "why do we learn English, does English kids learn Turkish aswell?" it makes me think learning a second language mustn't be an obligation. I have to sth to make it more charming , I need to show them that a new language is a door of a new world, new people , new cultures. inci inci Anna Rita Anna Rita I teach English in a secondary school, I find it difficult teaching English as a second Language and even giving my lessons in English because we have so different kids with special needs. Sometimes I see my best student feeling bored and I would like to give them more in order to increase their Language awareness. Carla Machado, Portugal Carla Machado, Portugal I teach English in a secondary school. And yes! I feel like a language-aware teacher. I have several students from other countries and sometimes I think the American melting pot has become a global one. So, I am truly prepared to welcome my students with different Hellos :) and I know they love it. They feel home! Lia, Italy Lia, Italy I teach English in a secondary school. I do have students with a very low background, who barely speak Italian, besides foreign students and last but not least students with special needs. Having said that, I need to be a language aware teacher and constanty switching from one code to another in order to involve all my students. Lucia, Ita Lucia, Ita I teach Maths and Physics in a secondary school. I believe it is fundamental for students whose first language is different from the language of schooling because they will be supported by subject teachers who have a much better understanding of the role that language plays in knowledge building. I am a teacher in pr I am a teacher in primary school. I am teaching language subject in the classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Being aware of the diversity of languages learners helps a teacher to recognize the differences in behavior and attitude of learners and how to pattern his teaching. Tiziana Varone, Ita Tiziana Varone, Ita I'm a ¨language-aware¨ teacher: I believe in the benefits coming from learning a second tongue, first of all the freedom to travel and work all over the world; I also think that living language diversity in classroom is an added value of the school experience, because it compells students and teachers to really do the effort to communicate in the language of the other and to daily practice a foreign language I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. Varvara Gashenko, Latvia Varvara Gashenko, Latvia i teach English and German in a secondary professional school and i need this course because i would like to use different CLIL activities at my lessons in order to make them more interested in English I I Odarka Kukite, Latvia Odarka Kukite, Latvia i teach English and French in a secondary professional school and i need this course in order to help my foreign students to improve their language awareness. Alessandra Amideo, Alessandra Amideo, ITALY I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian language and literature. Yes, I feel like a teacher who is attentive to the language. I think it is important to be a teacher who knows the language because it gives you the awareness of mastering it and consequently transmitting it to the students. . Roberta Di Pietro, Italy Roberta Di Pietro, Italy I teach in the primary school and to some extent, I think to be a language aware teacher. Luckily, I studied languages and I've been abroad learning in other languages. This influence my way of approachingbilingual students. However I know I can still improve and I hope this course will give me further information and help me finding more effective strategies to teach to my students and help them improve their learning methods and their language awareness, those who are bilingual and those who aren't, to help them become better citizens. Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) I teach English in a primary school with a small number of pupils from foreign countries. I believe it is fundamental to implement linguistic awareness for the purposes of integration and inclusion, important educational values to be transmitted. Rosy (Italy) Rosy (Italy) I am a teacher in a secondary school in Catania. I work with guys who have special needs and in my classroom there are only two foreign students. I Think that language awareness is important for every teacher and usefull to help pupils whose first language is different from the school's one. It is important not only to teach a foreign language but also to make pupils aware of the cultures of other school mates. School is not only a place where everyone acquires knowledge, but also a place where one learns to live together and builds common values . So that, everyone can find our place in classroom. Federica (Italy) Federica (Italy) I feel like a language-curious teacher rather than being aware of language diversity in my classroom. I still need to readapt my teaching to capture more effectively those who are bilingual and also to make Italian mother tongue students aware of their peers' difficulties Mariateresa De Mattia Mariateresa De Mattia I'm a teacher in an Italian school at Foggia.In my classroom i work with pupils who have special needs and so I think that language awareness is very important to comunicate and help them in their difficulties Alex_PT Alex_PT I am an EFL teacher in Portugal in a rural area, and even though we haven’t had many immigrants, the truth is that in the last – let’s say – two years, we’ve welcome some eastern Europeans, but basically, Brazilians. These students are all having extra classes in Portuguese in order to be able to comply and in what concerns my subject English as a Foreign Language, they are also problematic. I believe I am a language-aware teacher, conscious that my sts’ proficiency varies according to the context and subject – in Portuguese or English! Nevertheless, I have no doubts that if I was native-born or had more opportunities for local professional development, I would certainly acquire not only a more accurate language sensitivity but also have a better, improved perception of sociocultural aspects. Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy I'm a teacher in an Italian Primary School. In my school there are children who came from different parts of world, especially from China. There are also many pupils whit special needs. In my opinion, the language awareness is very important to help these students in their difficulties. I'ld like to improuve my knowledge for my job and for the benefit of children. Claudia Mazzone -Italy Claudia Mazzone -Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school in Naples. I work with guys who have particular needs. In the class where I teach there are students who come from different parts of the world. I'd like to improve my linguistic skills, because I think that the language awareness is a fundamental way to communicate with foreigners students, to check out their abilities and difficulties, in the way to make them feel part of the class, with benefits for their schoolmates and teachers. Rita Xuereb, Malta Rita Xuereb, Malta I am a Kindergarten Educator in a Maltese Public School, and our school population consists mainly of immigrants from all over the world. It's very difficult to communicate in Maltese so we use English as our common language. It’s also very interesting to observe how these 3-5 year olds communicate with each other in spite of their multicultural and language diversity. I would like to learn how to take advantage of this reality for the benefit of the children. RITA LUISO -ITALY RITA LUISO -ITALY I am a teacher in a technical school where there are a lot of immigrant and I try to make them aware of the importance of knowledge of a language to communicate to the other. In my classroom there different students with special needs and I'd like to improve my knowledge to help these students Daniela Galea, Malta Daniela Galea, Malta I am a primary teacher at Marsascala Primary School in Malta. My school is one of the most multicultural schools on our island that's why I think it is very important to make students aware of the importance of communicating through language. Martina Tettamanzi, Italy Martina Tettamanzi, Italy I am a teacher in an Italian Secondary School. I'm willing to improve my knowledge about communication and language awaress in order to help foreing students to learn a new language. I am a teacher in se I am a teacher in secondary school to students with special needs and I think it’s very important and useful to explore the communicative resources in the classroo I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. That is why I think it is important to get to your pupils/students and make them aware of the importance of communicate through language, any language. Daniela Roversi Daniela Roversi I teach German in an Italian Secondary school. I think, it's very useful, that the teacher remembers, how he/she learnt a foreign language, when he/she was at school. Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta I am a primary teacher in the tiny island of Gozo. Our mother tongue is Maltese and our second language is English. We start teaching both languages to our students from a very young age. Maltese, our mother language is part of our identity and culture, however English helps us communicate with the rest of the world. Filomena Montella, Italy Filomena Montella, Italy I am a teacher of Italian language and literature and history in secondary school. I strongly believe in the value of language as an important element of communication, that is, "putting in common" a message and having the right feedback HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY I am a teacher in a country where immigrants live intensively. I have a lot of information about this. I think I need more information about this. I find this course very important. think is important teaching C.l.i.l. think is important teaching C.l.i.l. M. Rosa Italy Ipermahia Christodoulou , Greece Ipermahia Christodoulou , Greece I'm a primary school English Language teacher. In my opinion is that we should care of the L1 the language that a child speaks and hears as mother tongue and mainly the L2 the language that a child with a different mother tongue is taught at school.L3 the foreign language which is compulsory to learn and at least the second foreign language which the child can choose to learn.When the child learns good the L2, there will not any problems to learn whatever language he/she prefers to. Roberta (Italy) Roberta (Italy) I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy learning a new language Eda Harp Zübari,Turkey Eda Harp Zübari,Turkey I am an English Language Teacher.I work in the southeastern of Turkey.The city has a lot of refugees from Syria.That is why,some of my students are Syrians.Some of them knows Turkish and English but most of them dont know either.We have difficulty in communication.The course may help me how to deal with this situation.Besides,most of my students dont believe in the beneficiency in learning a foreign language.I tell them about why we learn another language but some of them still insist on not to learn.They dont have an opportunity to communicate in English.Anyway,I hope this course will be useful both for me and my students.Thanks. Elín Iceland Elín Iceland I am taking my first steps in teaching foreign kids Icelandic. I like to know what to do for each ages. When start grammar and witch way. Caterina from Italy Caterina from Italy I'm a teacher in a primary school, in my class there're pupils from Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Poland, and also one pupil with an Italian father an a Brazilian mother. I hope to improve my language aware during this course, to dive in the languages' ocean and discover the common underlying proficiency. Veronica, teacher -to Veronica, teacher -to I’m still not a teacher, but I’m studying to become a teacher in primary school. I think that is very important nowadays to be a language-aware teacher because of our world is every time more international and every school becomes a mix of cultures of all over the world. Furthermore, languages are every day more important for the professional and private life of everyone. Like a teacher, I think it could be great to let the children discover things about languages in the world, and let the children that know more than one language express themselves about their mother tongue. This will also permit us, like teaches, to understand more them like person, to understand the way they think, to help them doing connections to learning the language of the city where they live now, and to introduce them and the other children to an open-mind thinking. I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Learning another language improves the critical thinking, encourage cultural appreciation and interpersonal connection, as well as the possibility to advance research. Language diversity helps not only to develop interpersonal and intercultural abilities , but also helps people to be I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Learning another language improves the critical thinking, encourage cultural appreciation and interpersonal connection, as well as the possibility to advance research. Language diversity helps not only to develop interpersonal and intercultural abilities , but also helps people to be experience from other cou experience from other countries, with longer history of multilingual schools. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. Alina, Romania Roberta from Italy Roberta from Italy I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students, and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy studying a new langua R R Gina , Italy Gina , Italy I'm a teacher in secondary high school and unfortunately many of my students have problems with their mother tongue language and therefore English is difficult to face in the classroom. So LA is mandatory to learn news ways to get them motivated. I w I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. Federica Tagliafichi Federica Tagliafichi I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I teach English in a I teach English in a Primary School and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides,language diversity allows facing with people of different countries and cultures, so that our pupils can estend their knowledge. Stefania Stefania I'm a teacher in a primary school. I believe that it is our responsability to make the second language learning more enjoyable, trying to eliminate the difficulties and understand what we can do to support students. I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures Martina Martina Martina from Italy Martina from Italy Different languages, different cultures, different people! Our job is amazing. We have the possibility to spread the knowledge and the love for the human being. MariaM - Gaeta, Italy MariaM - Gaeta, Italy I’m a primary school teacher and I do believe that language is a vehicle for learning. This year I'm teaching English in a fifth class and I will experience some CLIL activities, so that my pupils can understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. he classroom. I want my s he classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Carolina From Italy Carolina From Italy I'm a teacher ,I teach English in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Lia from Italy Lia from Italy I am an English teacher at Primary School. I am aware of language development. I think that working in very multicultural contexts helped me a lot. Patrícia, Porto, Portugal Patrícia, Porto, Portugal I teach Portuguese and English and I work with young learners and teenagers too. I try to be very active with my students when it comes to language awareness... When we are working together we know that language is culture, language is identity, communication... And I try to share my passion with them, so they too will want to learn different languages, travel, meet new people... Lia MOlini from ITaly Lia MOlini from ITaly Pizzi Mariagle Pizzi Mariagle Italy I'm a French teacher in a secondary school and as we a have students with special needs or ADHD students I find very difficult planning lessons for a so wide diversity of students. But languages are too much important in these 10 last years and it's important to find to involve everybody. inci Süzer, Turkey inci Süzer, Turkey whenever my students ask "why do we learn English, does English kids learn Turkish aswell?" it makes me think learning a second language mustn't be an obligation. I have to sth to make it more charming , I need to show them that a new language is a door of a new world, new people , new cultures. inci inci Anna Rita Anna Rita I teach English in a secondary school, I find it difficult teaching English as a second Language and even giving my lessons in English because we have so different kids with special needs. Sometimes I see my best student feeling bored and I would like to give them more in order to increase their Language awareness. Carla Machado, Portugal Carla Machado, Portugal I teach English in a secondary school. And yes! I feel like a language-aware teacher. I have several students from other countries and sometimes I think the American melting pot has become a global one. So, I am truly prepared to welcome my students with different Hellos :) and I know they love it. They feel home! Lia, Italy Lia, Italy I teach English in a secondary school. I do have students with a very low background, who barely speak Italian, besides foreign students and last but not least students with special needs. Having said that, I need to be a language aware teacher and constanty switching from one code to another in order to involve all my students. Lucia, Ita Lucia, Ita I teach Maths and Physics in a secondary school. I believe it is fundamental for students whose first language is different from the language of schooling because they will be supported by subject teachers who have a much better understanding of the role that language plays in knowledge building. I am a teacher in pr I am a teacher in primary school. I am teaching language subject in the classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Being aware of the diversity of languages learners helps a teacher to recognize the differences in behavior and attitude of learners and how to pattern his teaching. Tiziana Varone, Ita Tiziana Varone, Ita I'm a ¨language-aware¨ teacher: I believe in the benefits coming from learning a second tongue, first of all the freedom to travel and work all over the world; I also think that living language diversity in classroom is an added value of the school experience, because it compells students and teachers to really do the effort to communicate in the language of the other and to daily practice a foreign language I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. Varvara Gashenko, Latvia Varvara Gashenko, Latvia i teach English and German in a secondary professional school and i need this course because i would like to use different CLIL activities at my lessons in order to make them more interested in English I I Odarka Kukite, Latvia Odarka Kukite, Latvia i teach English and French in a secondary professional school and i need this course in order to help my foreign students to improve their language awareness. Alessandra Amideo, Alessandra Amideo, ITALY I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian language and literature. Yes, I feel like a teacher who is attentive to the language. I think it is important to be a teacher who knows the language because it gives you the awareness of mastering it and consequently transmitting it to the students. . Roberta Di Pietro, Italy Roberta Di Pietro, Italy I teach in the primary school and to some extent, I think to be a language aware teacher. Luckily, I studied languages and I've been abroad learning in other languages. This influence my way of approachingbilingual students. However I know I can still improve and I hope this course will give me further information and help me finding more effective strategies to teach to my students and help them improve their learning methods and their language awareness, those who are bilingual and those who aren't, to help them become better citizens. Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) I teach English in a primary school with a small number of pupils from foreign countries. I believe it is fundamental to implement linguistic awareness for the purposes of integration and inclusion, important educational values to be transmitted. Rosy (Italy) Rosy (Italy) I am a teacher in a secondary school in Catania. I work with guys who have special needs and in my classroom there are only two foreign students. I Think that language awareness is important for every teacher and usefull to help pupils whose first language is different from the school's one. It is important not only to teach a foreign language but also to make pupils aware of the cultures of other school mates. School is not only a place where everyone acquires knowledge, but also a place where one learns to live together and builds common values . So that, everyone can find our place in classroom. Federica (Italy) Federica (Italy) I feel like a language-curious teacher rather than being aware of language diversity in my classroom. I still need to readapt my teaching to capture more effectively those who are bilingual and also to make Italian mother tongue students aware of their peers' difficulties Mariateresa De Mattia Mariateresa De Mattia I'm a teacher in an Italian school at Foggia.In my classroom i work with pupils who have special needs and so I think that language awareness is very important to comunicate and help them in their difficulties Alex_PT Alex_PT I am an EFL teacher in Portugal in a rural area, and even though we haven’t had many immigrants, the truth is that in the last – let’s say – two years, we’ve welcome some eastern Europeans, but basically, Brazilians. These students are all having extra classes in Portuguese in order to be able to comply and in what concerns my subject English as a Foreign Language, they are also problematic. I believe I am a language-aware teacher, conscious that my sts’ proficiency varies according to the context and subject – in Portuguese or English! Nevertheless, I have no doubts that if I was native-born or had more opportunities for local professional development, I would certainly acquire not only a more accurate language sensitivity but also have a better, improved perception of sociocultural aspects. Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy I'm a teacher in an Italian Primary School. In my school there are children who came from different parts of world, especially from China. There are also many pupils whit special needs. In my opinion, the language awareness is very important to help these students in their difficulties. I'ld like to improuve my knowledge for my job and for the benefit of children. Claudia Mazzone -Italy Claudia Mazzone -Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school in Naples. I work with guys who have particular needs. In the class where I teach there are students who come from different parts of the world. I'd like to improve my linguistic skills, because I think that the language awareness is a fundamental way to communicate with foreigners students, to check out their abilities and difficulties, in the way to make them feel part of the class, with benefits for their schoolmates and teachers. Rita Xuereb, Malta Rita Xuereb, Malta I am a Kindergarten Educator in a Maltese Public School, and our school population consists mainly of immigrants from all over the world. It's very difficult to communicate in Maltese so we use English as our common language. It’s also very interesting to observe how these 3-5 year olds communicate with each other in spite of their multicultural and language diversity. I would like to learn how to take advantage of this reality for the benefit of the children. RITA LUISO -ITALY RITA LUISO -ITALY I am a teacher in a technical school where there are a lot of immigrant and I try to make them aware of the importance of knowledge of a language to communicate to the other. In my classroom there different students with special needs and I'd like to improve my knowledge to help these students Daniela Galea, Malta Daniela Galea, Malta I am a primary teacher at Marsascala Primary School in Malta. My school is one of the most multicultural schools on our island that's why I think it is very important to make students aware of the importance of communicating through language. Martina Tettamanzi, Italy Martina Tettamanzi, Italy I am a teacher in an Italian Secondary School. I'm willing to improve my knowledge about communication and language awaress in order to help foreing students to learn a new language. I am a teacher in se I am a teacher in secondary school to students with special needs and I think it’s very important and useful to explore the communicative resources in the classroo I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. That is why I think it is important to get to your pupils/students and make them aware of the importance of communicate through language, any language. Daniela Roversi Daniela Roversi I teach German in an Italian Secondary school. I think, it's very useful, that the teacher remembers, how he/she learnt a foreign language, when he/she was at school. Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta I am a primary teacher in the tiny island of Gozo. Our mother tongue is Maltese and our second language is English. We start teaching both languages to our students from a very young age. Maltese, our mother language is part of our identity and culture, however English helps us communicate with the rest of the world. Filomena Montella, Italy Filomena Montella, Italy I am a teacher of Italian language and literature and history in secondary school. I strongly believe in the value of language as an important element of communication, that is, "putting in common" a message and having the right feedback HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY I am a teacher in a country where immigrants live intensively. I have a lot of information about this. I think I need more information about this. I find this course very important. LORETTA LORETTA I AM A SCIENCE TEACHER IN A SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ITALY. I THINK THAT LANGUAGE CAN HELP ME TO COMMUNICATE WITH STUDENTS THAT DO NOT SPEAK THE MAIN LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION Maren, Germany Maren, Germany I am a soon to be teacher in high school. Many Students are facing difficulties in their first language and hence in learning new languages. Being language aware of ALL languages surrounding children is super important in order to provide every student with the help that is necessary to succeed in language acquisition. Gabriella,Italy Gabriella,Italy I teach maths and science in a junior high school in Naples. In my opinion the students that use CLIL activities will have more opportunities in the future for their jobs, but olso for their life because they will become really European Citizen Rosamaria Teodorani Rosamaria Teodorani I'm a primary school teacher in Rome. I believe in the importance of Learning languages as a language is the key to get in a culture, explore it, experience diversity and open your mind. To learn languages it makes you undertand that all cultures have devoloped similar logical structures to communicate, that there are lots of similarities. It is a an exciting experience. Julia, Poland Julia, Poland I am a trainer for teachers working with children with immigration experience (usually from Ukraine). Our systhem of education is just on the beginning with that subject. I think that it is very important to use experience from other countries, with longer history of multilingual schools. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. Alina, Romania Roberta from Italy Roberta from Italy I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students, and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy studying a new langua R R Gina , Italy Gina , Italy I'm a teacher in secondary high school and unfortunately many of my students have problems with their mother tongue language and therefore English is difficult to face in the classroom. So LA is mandatory to learn news ways to get them motivated. I w I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. Federica Tagliafichi Federica Tagliafichi I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I teach English in a I teach English in a Primary School and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides,language diversity allows facing with people of different countries and cultures, so that our pupils can estend their knowledge. Stefania Stefania I'm a teacher in a primary school. I believe that it is our responsability to make the second language learning more enjoyable, trying to eliminate the difficulties and understand what we can do to support students. I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures Martina Martina Martina from Italy Martina from Italy Different languages, different cultures, different people! Our job is amazing. We have the possibility to spread the knowledge and the love for the human being. MariaM - Gaeta, Italy MariaM - Gaeta, Italy I’m a primary school teacher and I do believe that language is a vehicle for learning. This year I'm teaching English in a fifth class and I will experience some CLIL activities, so that my pupils can understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. he classroom. I want my s he classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Carolina From Italy Carolina From Italy I'm a teacher ,I teach English in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Lia from Italy Lia from Italy I am an English teacher at Primary School. I am aware of language development. I think that working in very multicultural contexts helped me a lot. Patrícia, Porto, Portugal Patrícia, Porto, Portugal I teach Portuguese and English and I work with young learners and teenagers too. I try to be very active with my students when it comes to language awareness... When we are working together we know that language is culture, language is identity, communication... And I try to share my passion with them, so they too will want to learn different languages, travel, meet new people... Lia MOlini from ITaly Lia MOlini from ITaly Pizzi Mariagle Pizzi Mariagle Italy I'm a French teacher in a secondary school and as we a have students with special needs or ADHD students I find very difficult planning lessons for a so wide diversity of students. But languages are too much important in these 10 last years and it's important to find to involve everybody. inci Süzer, Turkey inci Süzer, Turkey whenever my students ask "why do we learn English, does English kids learn Turkish aswell?" it makes me think learning a second language mustn't be an obligation. I have to sth to make it more charming , I need to show them that a new language is a door of a new world, new people , new cultures. inci inci Anna Rita Anna Rita I teach English in a secondary school, I find it difficult teaching English as a second Language and even giving my lessons in English because we have so different kids with special needs. Sometimes I see my best student feeling bored and I would like to give them more in order to increase their Language awareness. Carla Machado, Portugal Carla Machado, Portugal I teach English in a secondary school. And yes! I feel like a language-aware teacher. I have several students from other countries and sometimes I think the American melting pot has become a global one. So, I am truly prepared to welcome my students with different Hellos :) and I know they love it. They feel home! Lia, Italy Lia, Italy I teach English in a secondary school. I do have students with a very low background, who barely speak Italian, besides foreign students and last but not least students with special needs. Having said that, I need to be a language aware teacher and constanty switching from one code to another in order to involve all my students. Lucia, Ita Lucia, Ita I teach Maths and Physics in a secondary school. I believe it is fundamental for students whose first language is different from the language of schooling because they will be supported by subject teachers who have a much better understanding of the role that language plays in knowledge building. I am a teacher in pr I am a teacher in primary school. I am teaching language subject in the classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Being aware of the diversity of languages learners helps a teacher to recognize the differences in behavior and attitude of learners and how to pattern his teaching. Tiziana Varone, Ita Tiziana Varone, Ita I'm a ¨language-aware¨ teacher: I believe in the benefits coming from learning a second tongue, first of all the freedom to travel and work all over the world; I also think that living language diversity in classroom is an added value of the school experience, because it compells students and teachers to really do the effort to communicate in the language of the other and to daily practice a foreign language I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. Varvara Gashenko, Latvia Varvara Gashenko, Latvia i teach English and German in a secondary professional school and i need this course because i would like to use different CLIL activities at my lessons in order to make them more interested in English I I Odarka Kukite, Latvia Odarka Kukite, Latvia i teach English and French in a secondary professional school and i need this course in order to help my foreign students to improve their language awareness. Alessandra Amideo, Alessandra Amideo, ITALY I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian language and literature. Yes, I feel like a teacher who is attentive to the language. I think it is important to be a teacher who knows the language because it gives you the awareness of mastering it and consequently transmitting it to the students. . Roberta Di Pietro, Italy Roberta Di Pietro, Italy I teach in the primary school and to some extent, I think to be a language aware teacher. Luckily, I studied languages and I've been abroad learning in other languages. This influence my way of approachingbilingual students. However I know I can still improve and I hope this course will give me further information and help me finding more effective strategies to teach to my students and help them improve their learning methods and their language awareness, those who are bilingual and those who aren't, to help them become better citizens. Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) I teach English in a primary school with a small number of pupils from foreign countries. I believe it is fundamental to implement linguistic awareness for the purposes of integration and inclusion, important educational values to be transmitted. Rosy (Italy) Rosy (Italy) I am a teacher in a secondary school in Catania. I work with guys who have special needs and in my classroom there are only two foreign students. I Think that language awareness is important for every teacher and usefull to help pupils whose first language is different from the school's one. It is important not only to teach a foreign language but also to make pupils aware of the cultures of other school mates. School is not only a place where everyone acquires knowledge, but also a place where one learns to live together and builds common values . So that, everyone can find our place in classroom. Federica (Italy) Federica (Italy) I feel like a language-curious teacher rather than being aware of language diversity in my classroom. I still need to readapt my teaching to capture more effectively those who are bilingual and also to make Italian mother tongue students aware of their peers' difficulties Mariateresa De Mattia Mariateresa De Mattia I'm a teacher in an Italian school at Foggia.In my classroom i work with pupils who have special needs and so I think that language awareness is very important to comunicate and help them in their difficulties Alex_PT Alex_PT I am an EFL teacher in Portugal in a rural area, and even though we haven’t had many immigrants, the truth is that in the last – let’s say – two years, we’ve welcomed some eastern Europeans, but basically, Brazilians. These students are all having extra classes in Portuguese in order to be able to comply and in what concerns my subject English as a Foreign Language, they are also problematic. I believe I am a language-aware teacher, conscious that my sts’ proficiency varies according to the context and subject – in Portuguese or English! Nevertheless, I have no doubts that if I was native-born or had more opportunities for local professional development, I would certainly acquire not only a more accurate language sensitivity but also have a better, improved perception of sociocultural aspects. Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy I'm a teacher in an Italian Primary School. In my school there are children who came from different parts of world, especially from China. There are also many pupils whit special needs. In my opinion, the language awareness is very important to help these students in their difficulties. I'ld like to improuve my knowledge for my job and for the benefit of children. Claudia Mazzone -Italy Claudia Mazzone -Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school in Naples. I work with guys who have particular needs. In the class where I teach there are students who come from different parts of the world. I'd like to improve my linguistic skills, because I think that the language awareness is a fundamental way to communicate with foreigners students, to check out their abilities and difficulties, in the way to make them feel part of the class, with benefits for their schoolmates and teachers. Rita Xuereb, Malta Rita Xuereb, Malta I am a Kindergarten Educator in a Maltese Public School, and our school population consists mainly of immigrants from all over the world. It's very difficult to communicate in Maltese so we use English as our common language. It’s also very interesting to observe how these 3-5 year olds communicate with each other in spite of their multicultural and language diversity. I would like to learn how to take advantage of this reality for the benefit of the children. RITA LUISO -ITALY RITA LUISO -ITALY I am a teacher in a technical school where there are a lot of immigrant and I try to make them aware of the importance of knowledge of a language to communicate to the other. In my classroom there different students with special needs and I'd like to improve my knowledge to help these students Daniela Galea, Malta Daniela Galea, Malta I am a primary teacher at Marsascala Primary School in Malta. My school is one of the most multicultural schools on our island that's why I think it is very important to make students aware of the importance of communicating through language. Martina Tettamanzi, Italy Martina Tettamanzi, Italy I am a teacher in an Italian Secondary School. I'm willing to improve my knowledge about communication and language awaress in order to help foreing students to learn a new language. I am a teacher in se I am a teacher in secondary school to students with special needs and I think it’s very important and useful to explore the communicative resources in the classroo I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. That is why I think it is important to get to your pupils/students and make them aware of the importance of communicate through language, any language. Daniela Roversi Daniela Roversi I teach German in an Italian Secondary school. I think, it's very useful, that the teacher remembers, how he/she learnt a foreign language, when he/she was at school. Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta I am a primary teacher in the tiny island of Gozo. Our mother tongue is Maltese and our second language is English. We start teaching both languages to our students from a very young age. Maltese, our mother language is part of our identity and culture, however English helps us communicate with the rest of the world. Filomena Montella, Italy Filomena Montella, Italy I am a teacher of Italian language and literature and history in secondary school. I strongly believe in the value of language as an important element of communication, that is, "putting in common" a message and having the right feedback HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY I am a teacher in a country where immigrants live intensively. I have a lot of information about this. I think I need more information about this. I find this course very important. Cristian Carotenuto Cristian Carotenuto Hi everybody! I teach English in upper secondary. My school is a Liceo with an International branch so it is quite important for me to develop language awareness as some of my students have mother tongues that are different from Italian. In so doing I try to get into their cultural backgrounds and help them in speaking and reproducing a language which has both BICS and CALP elements required for real language and IGCSE exams Rita Rita Hi! I’m Rita from Italy, my pupils are between 11 and 14. I’m a “support teacher” in classes that have students with disabilities, so I often work together with my colleagues. I think that language awareness is very important for everyone because it helps us to become more aware of our language, of single words and of foreign languages. Fátima Silva Fátima Silva Hello. I am a teacher of English in Seia on the slope of Serra da Estrela. This year I am teaching English to year 7 and year 9. At our school, our students also learn French and Spanish. Tamara Tamara Tamara, Tamara, I've been teaching foreign languages for thirty years in different kinds of schools to students ranging from low to high levels so I think I am language aware even if I think you have always something to learn from anyone. That's why I'm here, to learn form others' experiences. Matilde Matilde In Catalonia we have two official languages, Catalan and Spanish. Our primary pupils also learn a third language, mostly English. And between 30 and 40% of my students speak another language at home. One of our aims is to integrated and value the cultural diversity of our pupils and to develop their language awarness. Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy I’m a teacher of English Language and Culture at a Liceo in Italy. As foreign language teacher I’m aware of the importance of language as means of communication among the teacher and the students and among the students themselves. All languages share the same communicative functions but students are usually unaware of this basic rule, so the first aim of teachers of any subject should be to make profit of this common ground to develop compenteces, knowledge and abilities in their specific subject-matter. ismail erdoğan, Çanakkale, Turkey ismail erdoğan, Çanakkale, Turkey Well, I feel like a language-aware teacher.I know that is so important I can think so. Hello Hello Christine Christine Christine Italy Christine Italy Hello everyone, I'm an English teacher in a primary school. I like very much teaching to students aged from 6 to 10, it's a hard work but I think it's extremely important for children to get in touch with a foreign language early in their life in order to open their mind and try to experiment their lingual skills. CLIL has an important role in a new language learning process because it forces students to challenge the Rosa, Italy I am an English teacher in a Primary School. I think it is very important to develop students’ plurilingual competence as soon as possible. I encourage my pupils to “play” with language and to enjoy new sounds and structures through rhyme, storytelling, song and tongue twisters. Nevertheless, I feel inadequate to answer all their language needs and I hope this course will give me some practical examples of I can become more language aware in my everyday teaching. Rosa, Italy I am an English teacher in a Primary School. I think it is very important to develop students’ plurilingual competence as soon as possible. I encourage my pupils to “play” with language and to enjoy new sounds and structures through rhyme, storytelling, song and tongue twisters. Nevertheless, I feel inadequate to answer all their language needs and I hope this course will give me some practical examples of I can become more language aware in my everyday teaching. Ernesto, Italy Ernesto, Italy I am a physical education teacher at the secondary school. Language awareness is very important not only for teachers of foreign languages, but also for teachers of any subject. I am a teacher in a Secondary School in Italy and my subjects are Latin and Ancient Greek. Everyday I encourage my students to improve their "language awareness", playing with etymology or helping to develop their learning processes by showing differencies and similarities among languages. Even if they deal with unspoken anymore or "dead" languages, as they say, I think that it is important to notice the shared skills and tools to embracing linguistic stuctures and rules, such as vocabulary and grammar. If they become aware of the importance of this approach, they will be able to master many languages I am a teacher in a Secondary School in Italy and my subjects are Latin and Ancient Greek. Everyday I encourage my students to improve their "language awareness", playing with etymology or helping to develop their learning processes by showing differencies and similarities among languages. Even if they deal with unspoken anymore or "dead" languages, as they say, I think that it is important to notice the shared skills and tools to embracing linguistic stuctures and rules, such as vocabulary and grammar. If they become aware of the importance of this approach, they will be able to master many languages Valentina (Italy) Valentina (Italy) I'm a "young" teacher in secondary school, in Italy. My audience, right now, is formed by "difficult" pupils. The school where I teach is one of the last reserved schools for special educational needs. I teach humanities, as English speakers say. I always felt at ease when I had to deal with languages. I made classical studies since I was a child and what i realized, later, when I came across one of my most relevant passions at university, I'm talking about informatics, was that understanding the underlying structures and ideological patterns of a language was essential everywhere, even in that particular, so distant, field of knowledge. I see learning as an intricate riddle, as a Rubik's cube (I'm fond about it!) and I think the key to solve it, apprehend it and manage it easily, is laid in that patterns and logical structures of which I was speaking before. We can call them neurological algorithms, in a certain way. And I would like my pupils to be able to understand what I'm talking about, in order to improve, first of all, their key skills qualifications. In my opinion, these skills are the basis for all the successive achievements in life, inside and outside school. I would like to get some tips during this course for teaching "language-awareness" to them. Ireland Ireland Cecelia (Ireland) Cecelia (Ireland) I teach in a school where a huge amount of the children are bi- and pluri-lingual (to extremely varying levels; from some speaking another language exclusively at hometo others who only know a few words of their parents' languages) . While I try to ensure that this aspect of their identities is celebrated within the formal educational setting, I would love to know more ways to support them in developing their language proficiency (in both their home language and English as the first language of the school). Lucia Lucia Bonjour à tous! As you see I'm a french teacher. To be language-aware is important to teach but much more to pull down the barriers between languages and people. ro, ro, romit romit romit kaur India romit kaur India As a teacher i think language is the first source of learning for our students.we must be proficient in different languages so that we can provide our expertise to every student without facing any difficulties in communication. Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece Vasiliki Psaridou/Greece I am a teacher in a Minority school in Greece where students are Greek citizens but their mother language is turkish. Usually when endering Primary school they know either few or nothing in Greek. I face too many difficalties since Turkish is a language very different to Greek or English. So, being a language aware teacher in fundamental to Gabriela, Romania Gabriela, Romania I am an English teacher in a technological high-school in Romania. My students study Romanian, English and French. Some of them already have knowledge of German, Turkish and Russian. I think that being a language aware teacher is compulsory in this situation. I can make them better understand through associating different structures from the languages they knoe. Grace Grace Far from appearing conceited, as a language teacher, being language-aware is a must quality, a mindset; it is easier when you deal with European languages, more challenging with Gabriella Gabriella As a teacher, but moreover as a person, I think that we start to think about our language very soon. When for instance we play with our little friends and we choose to change our name or to call something in a different way, building a secret language, we are using our abilitiy to handle language and our consciusness that language is a social agreement. Leonardo Leonardo I am a teacher in Leonardo Leonardo Leonardo Leonardo I am an Art Leonardo Leonardo I am an Art teacher and I think that the Leonardo Leonardo I am an Art teacher and I think that the LA Leonardo Leonardo I am an Art teacher and I think that the LA increase the connection between the students Francesca Francesca I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using CLIL activities, because students can become aware of the importance of speaking different languages. I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using CLIL activities, because students can become aware of the importance of speaking different languages. anne france anne france I am a teacher on a primary school. To my mind,reflecting about awareness language increases pupil's motivation , and help teachers too Concetta, Sicily Concetta, Sicily Hi everybody, I teach in a secondary school. Because language is used to learn as well as to communicate I realized that it’s possible for my students to learn both a new language and a new subject at the same time. As a language teacher, I need to ensure that students understand all the crucial vocabulary and concepts in my lessons. In short, I must give comprehensible inputs. Moreover, I believe that in a CLIL lesson, language must be approached lexically rather than grammatically and learner styles must be taken into account in task types. I think I’m a LA teacher, so through this course I would like to improve my competences and develop my interests about it. I teach in a secunda I teach in a secundary school attended by adult students. I think it’s important especially for this type of users to reach awareness language to increspasse their skills and be able to position themselves again or better on job market R R Rean, ViennaAlth Rean, Vienna Although body language makes up an important part of our every day conversation in secondary education using spoken language is the key to gaining information. Working in a multilingual school LA has become part of our every day life and needs to be a top priority in training and further education. Mara Zambetti, Italy Mara Zambetti, Italy I'm a science teacher in a secondary school I'm not a LA teacher, i never thought about comon skill in different languages. I have students from foreign countries, but usually they are good italian speaker, not worse than italian mother toungue. Maybe language awareness can help all of us to learn more and open our minds. I am English teacher and think that I am starting to become a LA teacher. I intuitively felt the concept but now I am learning more deeply about it and think of becoming a LA teacher in future. With constant changes I have more children who are bilingual and my LA will help me to help them be more proficient in language learning. I am English teacher and think that I am starting to become a LA teacher. I intuitively felt the concept but now I am learning more deeply about it and think of becoming a LA teacher in future. With constant changes I have more children who are bilingual and my LA will help me to help them be more proficient in language learning. Tea Sisko Claudia Renda, Italy Claudia Renda, Italy Hi, I'm Claudia I teach italian language in CPIA like second language. Learning Awareness is important to every body, teachers and students. I work with adults seeing difficult I am a art teacher in a bilingual school from Bucharest, Romania. It is important to develop this abilities of speaking different languages. I am a art teacher in a bilingual school from Bucharest, Romania. It is important to develop this abilities of speaking different languages. Rute - Portugal Rute - Portugal I´m a primary school teacher and i work in a school that uses the CLIL in their classes. I believe this is a very useful complemente for children to have. I think i need to improve my language awareness and i believe this course will help me learn more and discover other ways to help my students. I am a teacher of french in a lower secondary school. As i teach in multilingual classes, I decided to attend this course to improve my competences in this field. I am a teacher of french in a lower secondary school. As i teach in multilingual classes, I decided to attend this course to improve my competences in this field. Tina, Messina Tina, Messina Hi everybody I teach in a secondary School in Sicily; in my class there are students that come from different countries; they have different linguistic needs and I think all the teachers should use different languages Hello Hello Bilingual school Bilingual school I work in a bilingual school and for most of the children the two operating languages is not their mother tongue. Therefore it is important to try to have consistent ways of delivering instructions across the school so children become familiar with the vocabulary in both languages. It also helps to explain the similarities and differences between the languages to clarify common mistakes. Roberto, Forlì Roberto, Forlì I teach Electronics in a vocational secondary school and I think Language awareness is a key compentece both for me and for my students. For me because: the terminology of Electronics is in English (L2); I teach one module of my subject in English (L2) using CLIL methodology. For my students Language awareness is a key competence for their future professional or scientific career. Aritz, Basque Country6 Aritz, Basque Country6 I'm a pre-school English teacher. Nowadays children are more aware about the wide range of languages and cultures that we have. Here we teach them mainly in Basque , some Spanish and English. Some children also have different mother languages such as; Arabic , French , Portuguese... In my opinion children should be aware of the importance of speaking languages particularly English in order to communicate with everybody (nowadays). Anna Kaya, Sweden Anna Kaya, Sweden I teach newly arrived students (from 9 years old to 16 years old) and I really try to be a language aware teacher. Our students speak different languages and it is important to use all their languages as resources in the classroom. I want to learn more about translanguging and how I can teach so our students can learn the Swedish language and continue to develop knowledge in all school subjects at the same time. Even though I try to think that “All languages are languages for learning” (or: “Alla språk är språk för lärande” in Swedish) it is not that easy to practice in the classroom. Kalima Bassey Kalima Bassey Language awareness is important because we sometimes have new students that come from a country where they speak neither French which is our mother tongue nor English which is the language I teach. Martina, Italy Martina, Italy I'm a primary school teacher. I'm a language-aware teacher: i believe in the importance of introduce more CLIL experiences in the primary from the beginning in order to improve pupil's language skills that they can use daily. Elena FP, Italy Elena FP, Italy I teach Literature and History in a Lyceum, and I also a CLIL teacher. Therefore, I am quite aware of the importance of language awareness, even if I still feel the need to improve my practical skiils and put them into use in the classroom. Adife DEMİRTAŞ Adife DEMİRTAŞ I am a teacher of English in a primary school and I do not think so that I am a language aware teacher. I belive that I have to still need to develop my critical thinking, cultural background of foreign languages I teach... Monica Boccoli Monica Boccoli I think that nowadays we have to think that we are citizens of the world. Every people have a strong link with other people all over the world through the web too. We have to learn other languages, in particular, English, to develop projects to build peace, respect, knowledge in the world. Gianni Lottino Gianni Lottino I'm a frenche teacher in secondary school and I think it's very important to improve student's developpement by using CLIL method across the use of different languages. Normally I use French and English as I prefer for a lesson. It depends on the subject and on the purpose of the lesson Vincenzo M. ITALY Vincenzo M. ITALY I am a teacher who is aware of the importance of languages, because knowledge and power. Only by knowing other languages will we be closer to other peoples. Francesca Palla, ITALY Francesca Palla, ITALY I'm a secondary school Italian teacher, and i had also some experiences in teaching Italian for foreign people in multilingual classrooms. I think that LA in this case could be a very useful competence, in order to manage lessons in different contexts. In my experience, multilingual classrooms give the possibility to create new ways of sharing knowledge. David Navas, Spain David Navas, Spain I am a secondary school teacher. I teach Technology in a bilingual school, although most of the students speak spanish, i am really concerned about being a language-aware. I think that we need to show to our students that we live in a globalized world, and maybe they will be working in a different country in the future. So it is neccesary to show them the importance of learning different languages. Laura Colombo, Italy Laura Colombo, Italy I teach English in a technical secondary school but in my regional area most students speak local dialect at home and Italian is their second language, so they already experience CLIL when studying other subjects. I think I have some language-awareness in the sense that I understand how difficult it can be for a student to learn an additional foreign language. During the lessons I usually make comparison between the three linguistic systems and ask questions to make students aware of similarities or differences. I believe this course can help me acquire strategies and find better teaching solutions. Training language awareness definition Training language awareness definition I'm a project coordinator, I meet students who want to go abroad. The aspects of language awareness I'd like to develop is the capacity to highlight to students the difference between home language and their use and the training language vocabulary and strustures. On the basis that learners and their learning strategies will change over time, I'd like to create a link between the importance to know the appropriate training language abroad and the possibility tyo maximixe thei mobility success Gabriela Turea from Romania Gabriela Turea from Romania I am a French teacher in a high school. I think that language awareness is very important. This week we are celebrating EDL which has become a tradition activity in our school. Our students are involved in many Erasmus projects and step by step they realized the importance of foreign languages. Because knowing a language offers them new opportunities to make new friends, to communicate, to express their ideas, to discover new things. Rovena Trivanović Rovena Trivanović Croatia I'm a secondary school English teacher. Teaching Englsh at grammar school and School for the hotel and catering industry is quite a challenge because my task is to prepare the students to pass their leaving school exam called Državna matura and to provide them with tools and skills needed for a quality communication in the foreign language. That's way it's very important to be aware of the structure and social characteristics of our mother tongue as well as any other foreign language. The foundation in the sense of aquiring the basic rules is essential for any kind of upgrading Özcan TURAN, Türkiye Özcan TURAN, Türkiye I am English teacher I teach both in high school and primary school even between these schools you have to use different language Chiara Sabatini, Italy Chiara Sabatini, Italy Language awareness is a feature that every teachers should know more about, so in this way it will be easier dealing with all the students and pupils in class. These days we are celebrating the EDL in our school and we are trying to do is to let understand the importance of all the languages and not only of English though English is the most used. In doing so also the students from different countries feel happy to share some expressions of their languages with their mates and are not ashamed of it. Said that I really looking forward to go into this matter as deep as we can. Vanessa, Italy Vanessa, Italy Being an English teacher, I basically always reflect on the Common Underlying Language: according to the grade of my students, I adapt my language when talking with them. Ana B. Portuga Ana B. Portuga As a primary teacher in an International School, I have a multicultural class. I think language awareness is very important if you want to provide good oportunities for building knowledge for all students. Sonia in Ireland Sonia in Ireland I agree that language awareness is very important in all classrooms. In my school context we see huge diversity especially in terms of students' L1. As a language teacher I sometimes feel a conflict between a communicative focus and explicit teaching of grammar/pronunciation etc. Within the conversations around grammar students who speak more than one language bring valuable perspectives (CUP) but often need encouragement to see their own backgrounds as an advantage, some are really shy about this difference in experience in fact. I I I'm Delicia Rojas..from Peru.. I'm Delicia Rojas..from Peru.. Even though I think I'm not a Language awareness teacher because there are still different aspects I need to know such as the challenges it takes to become one, but I try to encourage my students to keep learning a language that can break barriers and open new doors. Marisa Badini Italy Marisa Badini Italy I teach English in Primary school as a second language and I deal with pupils from other Countries, or with a Family language different from Italian. That's why I think It's crucial to learn more and more, in order to give more chances to students and have more effective teaching methods. Language diversity is a great opportunity to open to different worlds and a multilingual class is a rainbow to explore. Paola - Florence, Italy Paola - Florence, Italy Hi everybody! I'm an English teacher at a lower secondary school and I'm not sure to be a language-aware teacher... but I try everyday to give some sort of explanation to my students about how English works comparing it to other foreign languages and cultures through examples. Anyway I think this course is the right one to learn and improve my "awareness". Esmeralda Portugal Esmeralda Portugal I´m very sorry not to be a "language aware teacher" . In my student time we did not go deepen a second language. So I´m here to learn very much with this course Annalisa- Italy Annalisa- Italy I teach Italian language and history at the Secondary School. I would like to ameliorate my language awareness. Sharon Australia Sharon Australia We all need to be aware of the language needs that are necessary in a lesson - the language features and structures should be made evident to students so that they can monitor their learning Rosa, Portugal Rosa, Portugal I think I have to learn a lot to be a "language-aware" teacher but i want it very hard, so I´m here to learn! I know that I will enjoy this Course! Clara - Italy Clara - Italy I teach Italian language, history and geography at a Secondary School. It's important to be a language aware teacher? I think so. Nowdays I think that when the student is learning a subject through an additional language they improve their cognitive ability and prepares them for life beyond school. Moreover teaching and learning through an additional language encourages understanding between cultures. At last, a teacher who is ‘language aware’ understands why students have difficulties and what they can do to support them. Mary Mary I think that language awareness develops logical thinking. It's important to comunicate and interact with all people. Raffaela , Italy Raffaela , Italy I don't know if I really understand the meaning of Language awareness, but I'm sure I'm a good teacher when I can look at the world through my students' world views. FRANCESCA ITALY FRANCESCA ITALY I think that LA is the future of the learning because of the demographic globla changing; many of our students dont' speak italian and I believe that this is an opportunity for innovating the learning process Ana Cristina Martins Ana Cristina Martins Paço de Arcos, Portugal You become aware of the importance of language awareness when a first year student aged 5 asks you how do you know that his name is written on a paper just because he doesn't recognize any letter yet... I am a POrtuguese-English teacher, this year have have the bilingual English-Portuguese teaching programme with the first year in my school. I have english, moldavian, chinese and russian students in the classroom.... Sabrina, ItalyAs Sabrina, Italy As I think I’m not aware enough, I’m following these activities in order to learn how to be. I’m a primary school teacher. Giuseppe A, Italy Giuseppe A, Italy Hello! I'm a Math teacher. I believe that being LA teacher is very important in these days. It happen that sometimes the only way you have to talk with some students from abroad is using english language. I do not feel like a LA teacher, because I don't konw many technical words about the subject I teach in English. Esther, Spain Esther, Spain Hola!! My name is Esther and I am teacher trainer. I think it is so important to be aware of all the students` languages at school, at the playgroung, at home...A great opportunity to develop this awareness would be to celebrate the European Day of Languages in two days in class. It is great to give visibility to all our students´languages and students feel great and selfconfidence when they try to communicate in their own language or in their parents´language. ......it is a very richful experience for all the class. Paola,Italy Paola,Italy I think I'm a teacher who is aware of the language because I believe it is the most important goal, but I have several things to learn. A special class A special class Hi, I'm a tea PaOLa PaOLa T Sara, Portugal Sara, Portugal Hi! My name it´s Sara and I´m a kindergarten teacher. I don´t have, in my class, kids that speaks another language but I think that is important learn and improve a foreign language, than you can talk with all the people and help some kids that may stay in your class. In this moment I feel that I need to improve my skills and language awareness develops knowledge and helps you to comunicate and interact with everyone. Bruna (Italy) Bruna (Italy) Science teacher in a secondary technical school, sometimes I use some English in my lessons. Students don't always appreciate. But they're curious about other languages spoken by their foreign fellows, so I think I could use this language awarness to achieve better results and to make them open their mindas Maria Paola Maria Paola Hi, I teach Science and Maths in a secondary school in Ragusa, a small city in the south of Sicily. I think that it is very important to comunicate with foreign students so, with this course I hope to learn new strategies to teach to my students. In my opinion, it could be usefull to introduce new methods and concepts io order to make my pupils aware of language. I hope my students will increase their knowledges and grow up during my lessons. Daniela, Portugal Daniela, Portugal Hi! My name is Daniela Daniel and I’m a Portuguese teacher. I teach English in a public school in Portugal. My students are aged between 9 and 13. As I teach young people they sometimes feel reluctant when I propose talking activities. Nevertheless, I always teach them that the most important of all is the ability to communicate. Of course, that language awareness is very important but, on my point of view, it’s something that we can only develop if we aren’t afraid of saying something that isn’t completely correct in what grammar is concerned, for example. So, in my opinion, communication is, not only much more important than language awareness, but also a way to achieve it. Liana (Italy) Liana (Italy) Hallo! I teach italian language and literature, history and geography in the secondary school. I think to be a language-aware teacher, so through this course I would like to improve my competences and develop my interests about it. In the school context, beeing a language-aware teacher is a way to pay attention on reciprocal style of communication, starting by the use of each word; moreover is an opportunity to involve pupils in the communicative interactions trying to let themselves aware of the differences and similarities and how language is a precious heritage that includes a wider weltanschauung, emotions etc. etc. All those aspects contribute to the general growth of students as persons and citizens of the world, and improve the process of teaching and learning. Mary Mary I think that language awareness develops logical thinking. It's important to comunicate and interact with all people. Lucia,Crotone Lucia,Crotone I think that teacher awareness is a very important skill to help all students to communicate Giuseppina Tumino - Giuseppina Tumino - Italia I’m a Math and Science teacher in an Secondary School. In my classroom there are foreign students, so I think it is very important ti teacher using CLIL language, because so our students can give importance to learning new language. I home this course will give me new strategies and I can to use English language in different situazione. I find this course very important. Sophia Italy Sophia Italy I teach computer science in a technical high-school. I've read an interesting article from https://www.cambridge-community.org.uk/professional-development/gswla/index.html "Being language aware means you understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. These challenges might arise because a student is learning a subject through an additional language or it might be the first time a student has come across certain vocabulary or structures in their first language. A teacher who is ‘language aware’ understands why students face these difficulties and what they can do to support students." I hope to be a "language aware" teacher when teaching my subject in English (CLIL). As I'm not a Language teacher I do not know if I'm effective in supporting my students. Paola, Italy Paola, Italy I think language awareness is crucial to understand that, when we teach learners in a second language, we have to take into consideration that they have different needs from those taught in their first language. Therefore, "language aware" teachers have to be able to include these needs in their teaching and planning. The second language becomes the medium for delivery of the subject message. If learners are not confident using the second language, they may not achieve very well, they may be demotivated, losing their interest in the subject. It's teachers' responsability to make sure that language isn't a barrier to learning and they have to support students, taking into consideration the difference between conversational language (BICS) and academic language (CALP) and overcome this bridge. I need to deepen my knowledge concerning the benefits of teaching and learning through an additional language. Sinan Koru Sinan Koru No I am not, but will be Debora (Italia) Debora (Italia) Hi everybody, I'm a primary school teacher. I think that linguistic diversity can be perceived as a vari valuable pedagogical resource. In this way, the language awareness becomes a precious tool for more efficient and innovative teaching and learning. Catello de Sinno - Italy Catello de Sinno - Italy I'm an English teacher and as language teachers know, there is much more to a language than simply knowing vocabulary and grammar and reproducing them in either written or oral form. By increasing students’ language awareness, the students are better able to understand, appreciate and use the language. Debora (Italia Debora (Italia Hi everybody! I'm Brunella from Italy Brunella from Italy I'm not sure I'm really language aware in my daily work in class. That's why I want to learn more! Diana from Italy Diana from Italy I feel like a language.aware teacher but I need to improve the skills and tools to benefit from different languages in a classroom Maria Grassi, Italy Maria Grassi, Italy It's difficult to express my feelings about myself as a language aware teacher but I think it's important to be a language aware teacher because only if you can understand and find where is the common underlying proficiency between the different languages you can communicate with your students allowing them to achieve excellent results or language skills so I absolutely agree with Cummins theories... Alena, Czechia Alena, Czechia I´d like to become a more language-aware teacher, to learn how to foster BICS and CALP during L2 teaching. The concept of Common Underlying Proficiency seems very helpful for language learning as well. I´m looking forward to digging deeper into different CLIL activities and learning from others what works in their classes. :-) Alessandra, Pordenone - Italy Alessandra, Pordenone - Italy I teach italian, history and geography in a secondary school. In my school there are students with migratory background. I think is very important to improve my languange awareness in order to o improve the language skills of my students. Irene from Rome Irene from Rome Hi my dear collegues I'm a primary's school teacher. I agree about the importance of LA like a tool to development and improve cognitive and social skills in our students. Othermore the LA could help the students to be more self-confident and open-minded about the social and culture diversities. Silvia DM, Italy Silvia DM, Italy Language awareness is a crucial topic when you teach in multilingual classes like me. I hope to learn how to exploit this variety in a positive wayfor the benefit of my students. Daniela from Parma Daniela from Parma I think that language awareness is an important perspective for an English teacher, who can be considered as the "director" of language teaching in a school. If you know more than a language you have got a powerful weapon in your hands and you must learn how to use it! İSHAK KURT - MANİSA - TURKEY İSHAK KURT - MANİSA - TURKEY I see myself as proficient in foreign language. I can speak 3 languages and I can understand. I think that knowing language is very important in learning and teaching processes. If the teacher does not have the language of the audience to teach, learning will fail. language skills are very important for the development of cultural transmission or transfer ability. Otherwise, the messages will not be transferred with the correct channel. Lucia, from Italy - Puglia Lucia, from Italy - Puglia I'm a teacher from primary school. Language awareness is very important not only for foreign language teachers but also for teachers of any subject, like me. Laura Gianfranceschi Laura Gianfranceschi Hi everybody! I am math and science teacher in a secondary school. My students are not used to be aware to the scientific language. I am confident that the CLIL tecniques would be able to stimulate them to use wright languange and to be aware of the chances that they can have. 📎 Document Elisa, form Belluno (ITALY) Elisa, form Belluno (ITALY) Even though ours is a small community, our classes have their share of students with different backgrounds, such as pupils from South America, Eastern Europe countries, China. The majority of these students has arrived in Italy, if not in Belluno, at a very young age, so they present a good linguistic competence when speaking Italian for everyday communication with their peers. Problems emerge, though, when acquiring new concepts or specific lexicon in different subjects (e.g. geography, geology, history) or when writing longer essays in class. To help them work on their difficulties, I often try to create comparative tables, with the same word in italian, English, Sílvia Sílvia I'm a secondary teacher and this year I'm using CLIL to explain Maths in English. I hope that my students will learn not only Maths but also that we can use English to communicate and learn more about other cultures. Iveta Leinberga, Latvia Iveta Leinberga, Latvia Teaching English is like creating an art work. You always have to be creative and flexible to meet your students` needs and to find the best way to their hearts. English language has become an important communication tool in our everyday life as well as in the business world. English language can help learners to access the greatest treasure - knowledge. Teachers have to be aware of the diversity of English language learners, their cultural background. We all perceive and remember information in different ways so different teaching methods should be applied as well. I consider that interpersonal communication skills are of paramount importance in English language teaching. Language awareness has become an important tool in English language teaching and I hope it will continue its development. Antonino, Italy Antonino, Italy Hello, there! I'm a English Teacher in an Italian school. Language Awareness covers a wide spectrum of definition, but I would like to put it in practice, I mean, Everyone should connect language to our brain function and understand that each word has a meaning not only because it defines something, but also because a brain has thought it Athena, Nafpaktos-Greece Athena, Nafpaktos-Greece I ve been working as astate school teacher of english 16 years now and I feel the need to communicate with my students now more than ever.. A multicultural classroom is a phenomenon i come across more and more and i feel that language awareness can help me understand and be understood in a more effective way. Francesca, Italy Francesca, Italy Hi everybody, I'm a secondary school teacher in the suburbs of Milan. I think that acknowledging and embracing language diversity as an enriching factor in our classes, is a key issue and a big challenge for teachers. I like to think I'm a lifelong student, so I'm not sure I'm as "language aware" as I should, but I try to stimulate my students reflections on how English works in order to find differences and similarities between their L1 and the foreign languages they study at school and make learning a relevant experience for them (someone already mentioned Chomsky, and neurolinguistics is what I'm thinking of when I talk about similarities). I hope to find out useful practices and suggestions to make my effort more effective. Mustafa from Turkey Mustafa from Turkey Hello there. I am a secondary school teacher in Turkey. I have students speaking different languages in my class and I would like to take this course to give a better education to these students. Floriana from Italy Floriana from Italy Hi, I'm an italian teacher in a primary school. I think CLIL activities very important because language is a veicle for learning and pupils can to comunicate in other cultures. Ilaria from Italy Ilaria from Italy Clil is a very smart way of learning by doing, by using languages in different activities and topics. I like it a lot! Carmen from Italy Carmen from Italy I am an Italian primary school teacher and I feel like a language aware teacher. It is important to boost enhanced consciousness and sensitivity to the forms and functions of the language. I live and teach in Italy but I am Romanian mother tongue, so that Italian is a second language for me (L2) and English a foreign language. In all three cases I tried out by myself the meaning of formal language (CALP) and also informal communication (BICS). To be aware of language use you need a good preparation in your mother tongue and also a good knowledge of a foreign language; there are linguistic tools that can be transferred from mother tongue or maybe not and it is important to use also the metalinguistic code. Cinzia Italy Cinzia Italy I teach in a secondary school where 50% are students coming from abroad. I always underline how is important to learn other cultures and words in different languages. Last year we realized some short videos to explain easy words in Italian to our Lithuanian partner and they did the same. My students realized how foreign sounds can be difficult to produce and how we can teach our language. I also always underline the importance of dirrent cultures in our classroom as a richness. Floriana from Italy Floriana from Italy Hi, I'm an italian teacher in a primary school. I think CLIL activities are very important because language is a veicle for learning and pupils to Giuseppina Tumino - Giuseppina Tumino - Italy I’m a Science and Math’s teacher in an Italian Secondary School. In my classroom there are some foreign studente, so i think it is very important to’ teacher using CLIL language, beccasse so our students can give importance to learning new languages. I home this course will give me new strategies and I can ti use English language in different situatios. I find this course very important. Gianfranca Italy Gianfranca Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school. I think language awareness is very important to communicate with people and I really need to attend this course to improve my competences, to teach to my students the importance of a well spoken language. MARIA ITALY MARIA ITALY I think that learning a language means not only to know how a new language works but also and above all to understand another culture . All this in some way change and improve your identity. HartmutSchmidtke,Germany HartmutSchmidtke,Germany I am an English teacher at a secondary school and think that language awareness today is more important than 20 years ago. Importance of linguistic diversity Importance of linguistic diversity I think today that classes are increasingly different in origin, language awareness develops logical thinking. It is important to communicate and interact with all people. Alina, Romania My name is Alina ... I am a mathematics-physics-computer science teacher at the gymnasium ... My students learn from primary classes two foreign languages (English and German) but some know Italian or Greek because they spend their holidays with their parents gone to work abroad. Alina, Romania My name is Alina ... I am a mathematics-physics-computer science teacher at the gymnasium ... My students learn from primary classes two foreign languages (English and German) but some know Italian or Greek because they spend their holidays with their parents gone to work abroad. So I think very much in the knowledge, in the expression so that they can demonstrate what they have learned and realized Cinzia Marrone Italy Cinzia Marrone Italy Hi, I’m a primary English teacher and I believe in importance of languages in school curriculum.I think the youngest we start learning, the better we became aware of languages. Maja Maja Language awareness is one of the most important competencies teacher should have in a school like mine, where there are minority students and more and more foreign students. Teacher without this competence could easily affect on students low academic succsess and it is so unfair to thoose students. Ana, Lisbon PT Ana, Lisbon PT My school is a multicultural one, with more than 30 nationalities present. In my classes I always have many nationalities at the same time and I always try to take that in mind and involve each and every student in the learning activities. I also always try tomake my foreign pupils more confortable by learning some key words in their languages, so I can great them or thank them in a more personal way. I hope to learn a lot from this course so I can improuve my practices! Oleg Oleg I live in the border between Czech and Polnad. Almost everybody here speaks both languages. It is very nice. In my school I have students who finished Czech and Polish primary schools. We teach Czech, but I would like to use both languages. Elena Elena I am an Italian guitar teacher. I do not have foreign students in my classroom but I am very interested in this subject anyway. Sarah, UK Sarah, UK We need as teachers to be language aware so we can plan for and meet the needs of individual children. Roberta Roberta I am Roberta and I'm a primary school teacher. I teach Italian and English. I think it is very important to propose clil activities to children even if they are very young Hi, I'm a primary school teacher. I have been teaching English for several years and I have experienced the effectiveness of the connection between the characteristics of the mother tongue and those of the language to learn: I noticed that my pupils learn more easily if the similarities with their own language are highlighted and such learning also remains long time away. in my practice I try to promote this "game of similarities and differences" as much as possible because I believe that learning a new language also passes through this awareness. Hi, I'm a primary school teacher. I have been teaching English for several years and I have experienced the effectiveness of the connection between the characteristics of the mother tongue and those of the language to learn: I noticed that my pupils learn more easily if the similarities with their own language are highlighted and such learning also remains long time away. in my practice I try to promote this "game of similarities and differences" as much as possible because I believe that learning a new language also passes through this awareness. Serena from Italy Serena from Italy Hi, I'm a support teacher (Special Needs) I think the language awareness is important for all the teachers in the different subjects, we need each of the different languages that students speak in class. Zorica S. Zorica S. I am a teacher in a secendory school. Being aware of the language, means being aware of all the opportunities provided by that language.. I think that language awareness is very needed to better comunicate and use language skills. My opinion is that it is very important to speak different languages. Paola T.,Palestrina(Roma, Italy) Paola T.,Palestrina(Roma, Italy) Hi! I teach Art History in Secondary School. CLIL is a very important approach to teaching the content of curricular subjects through the medium of a non native language. Languages awareness Languages awareness Being a Portuguese English teacher I try to improve my confidence in the learning/teaching process so that I can share my experiences and knowledge with others, students and teachers!! So, language awareness, is a powerful tool to be successful in our professional life!! It allows us to understand and be understood!! Hi there Hi there I am Mariagrazia and I teach science and geography in CLIL and also English as a Foreign language. I have been teaching clil for two years so far and I feel i am becoming more and more language aware: I mean I can discover the limguistic world of my multilingua classes...I think that teaching using different language ... that is for example using code swiching...is really great for children and can be really DEMOCRATIC ...I mean no language is more important than others... Maria A Maria A Maria A. Maria A. Palau,Sardinia Italy I teach Italian and English in a Primary School. I feel even more convinced about the importance of being language aware. I'm very happy to have the opportunity to teach both Italian and English,I hope to improve my knowledge thanks to this course. I'm Laura, a primary teacher from Italy I'm Laura, a primary teacher from Italy Language is a vehicle for learning. It is through language that learners access the content of the lesson and communicate their ideas. So, as teachers, it's our responsibility to make sure that language isn’t a barrier to learning. One way to achieve this is to become more ‘language aware’. Being language aware means that we understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. A teacher who is ‘language aware’ understands why students face some difficulties and what they can do to support them. Mara, Capri Island, Italy Mara, Capri Island, Italy I'm an English teacher at secondary schools. I think it is important to be language-aware also because in the last years we are experiencing the presence of many students coming from different countries with different cultures and languages. Being language-aware means also to respect them and make any possible efforts of speak to their hearts and not only to their heads! Chiara, Italy Chiara, Italy I teach Italian, I try to be a language-aware teacher because languages are beautiful and through the words you can understand people. Gla Gla Gladiola Bondar, Borca - Romania Gladiola Bondar, Borca - Romania Hello! I'm a teacher in a primary school. I think it is very important for my students to become aware of language. My students learn to become aware of the language through active listening, explaining new words, making new statements, telling what they have read ... Language awareness develops logical thinking, imagination, students are more creative. Students cooperate on lessons, interact, learn together. Dzeina, a native Latvian teaching English in Spain Dzeina, a native Latvian teaching English in Spain Language awareness is an extremely important and many times overlooked aspect of learning. There are both stimulating and a little bit stifling practices at the school where I teach, trying to reach bilingualism (Spanish-Englisih) without translanguaging elements such as translation, which in my opinion are vital in becoming language aware. There are non-native students who do not receive the necessary amount of support for acquiring English and or Spanish, and their cultural and linguistic heritage tends to be overlooked unfairly. Having said that: I must admit that multilingual classrooms and multicultural education environment ca both be stimulating and exhausing at the same time. I am looking forward to learning some strategies to make my teaching life a bit easier. Cheers to all my colleagues from all over Europe! Irina Zama, Romania Irina Zama, Romania I'm a teacher of English and as part of my job I teach high school students but also younger ones privately and I have prepared many students for Cambridge exams. Teaching a language to students whose mother tongue you do not know can be really challenging. However, during my 2 months teaching in England to multilingual groups (Italian and Spanish) was really revealing for me. I realised it is much easier to teach students who have your own mother tongue than those who don't. Also, as I have a pretty good command of Italian and Spanish too, and of their culture, it was easier for me to teach them than teaching Chinese students. Knowing the cultural background and being aware of language differences can be helpful in reaching out to the students and getting through to them José Carlos Lopes, Guarda, Portugal José Carlos Lopes, Guarda, Portugal As a Guarda citizen, a little city next to the border of Spain, I grew up watching both Portuguese and Spanish TV. So I'm very confortable with Spanish language. As a 21st century citizen I learned english and french in school. Of course English should be everyone's second language in order to everyone could have a common language and feel like a real European citizen. Nowadays everybody in one way or another, better or worse, can understand basic english. We also know that language learning is much easier in early ages so, as a teacher I can only be language-awared for the languages I really feel prepared for. It´s not easy for a portuguese teacher to be prepared to communicate with a morocan, a sirian or with an iraquian pupil. But I also think that most of everyone can, nowadays, communicate in english. So, if it is the case, I think I can be aware and prepared to have a multilingual classroom with more than one language and teach in this environment. Vicky Archondi, Greece Vicky Archondi, Greece Being an English teacher and a linguist presupposes a certain degree of language awareness. However, for me language awareness goes hand in hand with culture awareness. So, if I wish to understand and learn my students' mother tongues , I should first of all be willing to embrace their cultures' wonders and secrets. Magda Uleia , Romania Magda Uleia , Romania I teach Math and ITC and my first meet with languages it was in the front of computer - at the beginning all was in english... WOW , I have studied only French and Deutch in school. Step by step I have learn English , I have start some projects on eTwinning , Comenius, Erasmus . Without languages all that was impossible! I study everyday in Math , in languages , in sociology. It is very nice , we still remained in contact with our students! Every day I try to prove to my studets that all we learn in school is important for us , for our future . Moreno, Rieti, Italy Moreno, Rieti, Italy I don't feel so much confident about langiage. I am a science field teacher so I have a good practice about the technical language that I use for my purpouse but not so much about the real grammar and technical rules Hi, everyone! Hi, everyone! I Think that I have to improve much more my language awareness in a double way: as a student and consequently as a teacher (we don't stop studying as teachers). It's clear that in a class composed by pupils coming from different countries and speaking at home a language different from the national one it Will be a bit different for the teacher be able to offer the right linguistica support to everyone But I'm here to try to learn it! Maria Grazia Monteleone Italy Hi, everyone. Greetings from Portugal (Eduarda ) Hi, everyone. Greetings from Portugal (Eduarda ) In my own perspective I believe I have still a long way to go as far as being language aware. I do feel the need to learn a lot more about this topic as the school I'm teaching is attended by different ethnies.Therefore I do need to learn a lot. But that's what being a teacher means: constantly learni g According to me, lan According to me, language awareness is a great opportunity for teachers and students. Angela Italy Angela Italy My pre-school class is multiethnic and I think LA is essential. Small children can learn easily. . . Hanife, Turkey Hanife, Turkey I am an English teacher in a secondary school. LA is very important that we explore during the process. I want to give my pupils experiences that expand their creativity, social skills and cultural scope. It is an exciting experince to explore another culture, language and a way of living. It is also important for pupils to learn through authentic communication. So, laening a language requires a language awareness during the learning process. Ayşe,Turkey Ayşe,Turkey I am a teacher in pre-primary and primary school. I think the students aware of everything and they can speak new language easily. I applied Clil in my school and my students addict this method so it can apply easily. Angela Italy Angela Italy At the moment I'm a pre-school teacher but I thought English also in primary and secondary school. Dimitra P., Greece Dimitra P., Greece Hello, everyone! What I think on the matter is that the world is constantly changing and, of course, the new era is more demanding both on learners and on teachers. Nowadays, we recognize that all European citizens should have sufficient knowledge of at least three European languages, which means that, above all, they need to conquer the capacity of language learning in an early stage of life (at least according to Chomsky). To understand the “deeper” structures of our mother tongue is crucial and it doesn’t happen by accident. To some people it doesn’t happen at all during their life –time. Bilinguals and multilinguals have a benefit over this, as Cummins and other scholars have suggested. Even more the linguistic landscape of Europe is bound to change, due to migration. Language awareness will be highly important, as language is a vehicle for culture. I believe that a teacher who is aware of linguistic deep structures, will be more equipped to help diverse pupils to enculturate to new ethnic/cultural backgrounds. Brigida Calise Brigida Calise I'm a secondary school teacher. My classes are multiethnic. In my opionion LA is essential and I absolutely agree with the definition of LA as the explicit knowledge about language, and conscious perception and sensitivity in language learning, language teaching and language use. I feel like a language-aware teacher and I try my best to improve. Having students who speak different languages is a powerful tool to enhance, exchange and motivate language learning. the students... I like ac the students... I like active participation in classes and to know their opinions about topics we learn together. According to me, teaching means "always learning" and the first questions to my students are: "Do you like foreign languages? did you go abroad? would you like to live abroad in the future?" Moreover, learning a foreign language means learning another culture and have another point of view. For sure, I need to improve teaching strategies (everyone has always to improve something) but I think to be "language-aware" :) Caterina fantini Caterina fantini Italy I'm a primary school teacher. I have a multiethnic class and the diversity of languages is very important to enrich the work. Students open their minds and know other cultures. Maria Jastrząb Maria Jastrząb I'm early primary education teacher. Learning and teaching languages is a great opportunity to expand your horizons. It's amazingly valuable both for teachers and students. Lu, English teacher (Italy) Lu, English teacher (Italy) I'm an English teacher in a Secondary School. I've worked with students coming from different countries and I think that LA is essential to motivate the students... I like active participation in classes and to know their opinions about topics we learn together. According to me, teaching means "always learning" and the first questions to my students are: "Do you like foreign languages? did you go abroad? would you like to live abroad in the future?" Moreover, learning a foreign language means learning another culture and have another point of view. For sure, I need to improve teaching strategies (everyone has always to improve something) but I think to be "language-aware" :) FILOMENA BIANCO, ITALY FILOMENA BIANCO, ITALY I feel I'm a language-aware teacher, being a teacher of English in a middle secondary school, where - students speak their local dialect and Italian - students learn two foreign languages, English and French or Spanish - the number of foreign students is increasing more and more İMRAN ARSLAN TÜRKİYE. İlkokulda çalışıyorum. Ülkemizde etnik kökeni farklı bir çok insan yaşamakta, farklı diller ve kültürler bizleri ayrıştırmıyor. Bütünleştiriyor. Farklı dillerde müzikler, sanatsal etkinlikler kültürümüzü zenginleştiriyor. Bir lisan bir insan iki lisan iki insan. Ben de kendi dilimde düşüncelerimi sizinle paylaştım. İMRAN ARSLAN TÜRKİYE. İlkokulda çalışıyorum. Ülkemizde etnik kökeni farklı bir çok insan yaşamakta, farklı diller ve kültürler bizleri ayrıştırmıyor. Bütünleştiriyor. Farklı dillerde müzikler, sanatsal etkinlikler kültürümüzü zenginleştiriyor. Bir lisan bir insan iki lisan iki insan. Ben de kendi dilimde düşüncelerimi sizinle paylaştım. I am soon to become I am soon to become a teacher and I think that learning different languages is very beneficial for incorporating new methods and concepts for our students.we can provide alternatives to students and make them understand well. Giuseppina V. Italy Giuseppina V. Italy Honestly I don’t know whether I feel like a language-aware teacher or not. I believe it is important being aware of the differences between Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills (BICS) and Cognitive Academic Language Proficiency (CALP) whether you teach in your mother tongue or teach in the target language (i.e. CLIL) or teach Italian as a second language to foreign students. Hi I am JESÚS from Spain and I teach English in infant level , what you can learn from them is amazing seing them speak in a new language , how they improve their motivation to do it right, so to teach a child a new way to create communication is something that can not be compare with nothing else in the world. Hi I am JESÚS from Spain and I teach English in infant level , what you can learn from them is amazing seing them speak in a new language , how they improve their motivation to do it right, so to teach a child a new way to create communication is something that can not be compare with nothing else in the world. Michela, I Michela, I Michela, I Michela, I Michela, I'm an Michela, I'm an Hande Türker Hande Türker Hi, I am an English teacher in a Secondary School in Turkey. I think i am a LA teacher with not many specifications:)To be honest, I am aware but i don't have many ideas to apply this knowledge into the lessons.I've been working for five years but i haven't had students with different languages but i want to improve myself in creating new athmospheres in the classroom. I want to prepare myself for the future because i may have students like that. And if not, i think i have to be more aware what is going on in the world and what the new aspects towards education are. In order to improve the students' language skills, teachers have to know about their way of thinking and understanding the world around. So, i wish i will learn new ways of applying effective methods in language classrooms. Anna, Italy. I'm a teacher for special need. Improving the language awareness helps to communicate with people with different culture. This can help to reach the acceptance of diversity and the best coexistence of different cultures. It manages to approach different cultures and try to understand them and know them not to be afraid of them. Anna, Italy. I'm a teacher for special need. Improving the language awareness helps to communicate with people with different culture. This can help to reach the acceptance of diversity and the best coexistence of different cultures. It manages to approach different cultures and try to understand them and know them not to be afraid of them. Michela, I'm an English teacher and I thin Michela, I'm an English teacher and I thin Michela, I'm an English teacher and Ith Michela, I'm an English teacher and Ith Michela, I'm an English teacher and Michela, I'm an English teacher and Michela, I'm an English teacher and I think Michela, I'm an English teacher and I think Michela, I'm an English teacher and I think being la Michela, I'm an English teacher and I think being la Ela, Poland Ela, Poland First of all I would like to say that bilingual education is more and more popular in my country. I am history, literature teacher and English as well. So, I can teach bilingual education. I try to do it time to time, for example when we disscusing about book which is written by English writer. Polish lessons have English language component. It is ocassion to improve language awareness. Secondly, I have travelled a lot, so my travel experience is very useful for teaching. I have got some ainteresting educational materials, e.g. leaflets, maps, short films. I use it in different way but generally it helps to gain students to cultural and linguistics competence. Mihaela, romania Mihaela, romania SPEAKING IN MORE LANGUAGES FOLLOWS MORE TO HIS SUFLET AND THAT YOU ARE ENOUGH TO EXPRESS AND MAKE YOUR FORCE Lucy (Italy Lucy (Italy I'm a geografy teacher in a secondary school Giedre (Lithuania) Giedre (Lithuania) I'm an English teacher. I teach from 2nd to 8th grades students in progymnasium. I think it's important to make my students aware of communicating languages. And also I think I will learn more teaching methodology in this course. Maria Goreti Silva Rocha (Portugal) Maria Goreti Silva Rocha (Portugal) I teach physics and chemistry. In my opinion is very important that students become aware of the importance of speaking english and other languages to understand the global world in which they live. I use CLIL to teach the disciplinary contents, the learning of the English language is assumed transversally. I hope to learn more about CLIL during this course. Michela, chemistry teacher from Italy. Michela, chemistry teacher from Italy. On my opinion, teaching in languages different from our mothertongue is very important for both teachers and students. Students with a good L. A. have a lot of benefits in term of, for example, development of brain skills or acquisition of new ways of perceiving the world. Francesca Italy Francesca Italy I'm an english Teacher, The best way to make students understand that speaking a lanuage is an ability, the aim of which is communicate, there's no way out ,the best thing to do is to do a lot of practice and to have a reason why you want to learn to speak that Language , you mustn't be obliged to study it!!! , Linda Linda I teach in a secondary school. I would like to improve communicating more effectively with students who do not speak the main language of instruction G G Giuseppina (Italy) Giuseppina (Italy) I'm a teacher of Scienze and Math in a secondary school and living in Ragusa (Sicily). I think that is very important nowadays to be a language-aware teacher because of our world is every time more international and every school because a mix of cultures of all over world R R I am a teacher in the primary school Hi everybody! I'm Alessia and I teach English as a second language in Primary School. I live and work in North Italy. In my classes I have to cope with language and cultural diversity quite often since lots of my students have a different linguistic background. I strongly support the idea that being aware of those difference and, above all, bieng able to "use" them to improve my lessons is vital to improve my teaching practice. Hi everybody! I'm Alessia and I teach English as a second language in Primary School. I live and work in North Italy. In my classes I have to cope with language and cultural diversity quite often since lots of my students have a different linguistic background. I strongly support the idea that being aware of those difference and, above all, bieng able to "use" them to improve my lessons is vital to improve my teaching practice. hi! I am Carmen, a teacher of English from Romania. I think I am a teacher aware of language, but still have a great desire and grit to learn more in order to assist my students better. hi! I am Carmen, a teacher of English from Romania. I think I am a teacher aware of language, but still have a great desire and grit to learn more in order to assist my students better. Sylwia, Poland Sylwia, Poland Hello everyone I'm the teacher of English in primary and secondary school. The LA gives conscious in language learning, motivates to use language in diffrent situations. Hi everybody, Hi everybody, I'm Alessia and I teach English as a second language in Primary School. I live and work in North Italy. In my lessons I have to cope with students of different backgrounds and different languages: quite often Italian is their second language. I hope this course will help me to "use" cultural and language diversity to improve my lessons I'm a psychology teacher and I try to give many importance to my students's language as in italian as in a foreign language. It's importan use language like a way to go inner the mind and the earth of students. I'm a psychology teacher and I try to give many importance to my students's language as in italian as in a foreign language. It's importan use language like a way to go inner the mind and the earth of students. I am a primary school teacher. It is my second year at this level (I was a Romanian teacher). I am a primary school teacher. It is my second year at this level (I was a Romanian teacher). I teach Italian as L I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Teaching helps me to reflect on my mother tongue as well as on the other foreign languages. Learning a different language develops critical thinking, increases appreciation for a different culture and language and at the same time it develops the ability of better communnication and understanding. Costina, Heidelberg Daisy (Italy Daisy (Italy I'm a language teacher in a secondary school, I'd like to reflect on the usage of the language I'm currently teaching (English and German); I think this course will improve my teaching skills, making me more aware of language diversity, with a change of perspective and a deeper insight in this topic. Marco (Italy) Marco (Italy) I'm a Math and Science teacher at an Italian middle school (10-13 years). I have always been aware of the importance to know foreign languages, especially English, to be able to interact with everybody in the world, thus improving the own culture and open mindedness. However, after becoming a teacher, I realized even more how important is the knowledge of foreign languages to set up a school environment which is really inclusive. Now, I would need some technical hints more on how CLIL methodology could be introduced in a course to be effective. Marco Vitiello, Ascoli Piceno I'm a teacher in the Primary School and I'm deeply persuaded about the importance to teach foreign languages in this School and to develope Language Awareness. There are a lot of reasons we could say to support this affirmation, and these reasons touch surely several areas of the Human and Social Being. I'd like to write here only three words: self-consciousness, power and freedom. I'm a teacher in the Primary School and I'm deeply persuaded about the importance to teach foreign languages in this School and to develope Language Awareness. There are a lot of reasons we could say to support this affirmation, and these reasons touch surely several areas of the Human and Social Being. I'd like to write here only three words: self-consciousness, power and freedom. Diana Nicoletta (Italy, Sicily) Nicoletta (Italy, Sicily) I'm a Tecnology's teacher in a secondary school. I think it is very important to teach using the activities of the Clil to speak in a universal way with the students Cinzia (Sicily) I'm a Math and Science's teacher in a secondary school of Ragusa, i think it's important teaching using CLIL language to communicate with all my students specially with foreign students Cinzia (Sicily) I'm a Math and Science's teacher in a secondary school of Ragusa, i think it's important teaching using CLIL language to communicate with all my students specially with foreign students G G Gökhan (Turkey) Gökhan (Turkey) I'm a teacher in a secondary school. I think CLIL activities are very important. Because so our students can give importance to learning new languages. Ciro ( Italy) Ciro ( Italy) Hi everyone. I'm Ciro, 35 yo, from South of italy and living in Milan as a teacher of Italian literature and History. To me different languages are the medium. the link to the wolrld because, by them, it's possible to aim a different view on our life improving who we are and devoloping who will be. Speaking in different language make us more confidential to the others, more open-minded and theese can also help us teacher to better interconnect with a worlwide school pupils. I'm a teacher in a primar I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using CLIL activities, because students can become aware of the importance of speaking different languages. I'm a teacher in a primary school. In my opinion it's very important teaching using CLIL activities, because students can become aware of the importance of speaking different languages. İMRAN ARSLAN TÜRKİYE. İlkokulda çalışıyorum. Ülkemizde etnik kökeni farklı bir çok insan yaşamakta, farklı diller ve kültürler bizleri ayrıştırmıyor. Bütünleştiriyor. Farklı dillerde müzikler, sanatsal etkinlikler kültürümüzü zenginleştiriyor. Bir lisan bir insan iki lisan iki insan. Ben de kendi dilimde düşüncelerimi sizinle paylaştım. İMRAN ARSLAN TÜRKİYE. İlkokulda çalışıyorum. Ülkemizde etnik kökeni farklı bir çok insan yaşamakta, farklı diller ve kültürler bizleri ayrıştırmıyor. Bütünleştiriyor. Farklı dillerde müzikler, sanatsal etkinlikler kültürümüzü zenginleştiriyor. Bir lisan bir insan iki lisan iki insan. Ben de kendi dilimde düşüncelerimi sizinle paylaştım. Lucy (Italy Lucy (Italy I'm a geografy teacher in a secondary school think is important teaching C.l.i.l. think is important teaching C.l.i.l. Ipermahia Christodoulou , Greece Ipermahia Christodoulou , Greece I'm a primary school English Language teacher. In my opinion is that we should care of the L1 the language that a child speaks and hears as mother tongue, the L Roberta (Italy) Roberta (Italy) I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy learning a new language Eda Harp Zübari,Turkey Eda Harp Zübari,Turkey I am an English Language Teacher.I work in the southeastern of Turkey.The city has a lot of refugees from Syria.That is why,some of my students are Syrians.Some of them knows Turkish and English but most of them dont know either.We have difficulty in communication.The course may help me how to deal with this situation.Besides,almost all of my students doesnt Elín Iceland Elín Iceland I am taking my first steps in teaching foreign kids Icelandic. I like to know what to do for each ages. When start grammar and witch way. Caterina from Italy Caterina from Italy I'm a teacher in a primary school, in my class there're pupils from Marocco, Pakistan, Romania, Poland, and also one pupil with an Italian father an a Brazilian mother. I hope to improve my language aware during this course, to dive in the languages' ocean and discover the common underlying proficiency. Veronica, teacher -to Veronica, teacher -to I’m still not a teacher, but I’m studying to become a teacher in primary school. I think that is very important nowadays to be a language-aware teacher because of our world is every time more international and every school becomes a mix of cultures of all over the world. Furthermore, languages are every day more important for the professional and private life of everyone. Like a teacher, I think it could be great to let the children discover things about languages in the world, and let the children that know more than one language express themselves about their mother tongue. This will also permit us, like teaches, to understand more them like person, to understand the way they think, to help them doing connections to learning the language of the city where they live now, and to introduce them and the other children to an open-mind thinking. I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Learning another language improves the critical thinking, encourage cultural appreciation and increase I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Learning another language improves the critical thinking, encourage cultural appreciation and increase experience from other cou experience from other countries, with longer history of multilingual schools. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. Alina, Romania Roberta from Italy Roberta from Italy I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students, and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy studying a new langua R R Gina , Italy Gina , Italy I'm a teacher in secondary high school and unfortunately many of my students have problems with their mother tongue language and therefore English is difficult to face in the classroom. So LA is mandatory to learn news ways to get them motivated. I w I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. Federica Tagliafichi Federica Tagliafichi I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I teach English in a I teach English in a Primary School and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides,language diversity allows facing with people of different countries and cultures, so that our pupils can estend their knowledge. Stefania Stefania I'm a teacher in a primary school. I believe that it is our responsability to make the second language learning more enjoyable, trying to eliminate the difficulties and understand what we can do to support students. I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures Martina Martina Martina from Italy Martina from Italy Different languages, different cultures, different people! Our job is amazing. We have the possibility to spread the knowledge and the love for the human being. MariaM - Gaeta, Italy MariaM - Gaeta, Italy I’m a primary school teacher and I do believe that language is a vehicle for learning. This year I'm teaching English in a fifth class and I will experience some CLIL activities, so that my pupils can understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. he classroom. I want my s he classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Carolina From Italy Carolina From Italy I'm a teacher ,I teach English in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Lia from Italy Lia from Italy I am an English teacher at Primary School. I am aware of language development. I think that working in very multicultural contexts helped me a lot. Patrícia, Porto, Portugal Patrícia, Porto, Portugal I teach Portuguese and English and I work with young learners and teenagers too. I try to be very active with my students when it comes to language awareness... When we are working together we know that language is culture, language is identity, communication... And I try to share my passion with them, so they too will want to learn different languages, travel, meet new people... Lia MOlini from ITaly Lia MOlini from ITaly Pizzi Mariagle Pizzi Mariagle Italy I'm a French teacher in a secondary school and as we a have students with special needs or ADHD students I find very difficult planning lessons for a so wide diversity of students. But languages are too much important in these 10 last years and it's important to find to involve everybody. inci Süzer, Turkey inci Süzer, Turkey whenever my students ask "why do we learn English, does English kids learn Turkish aswell?" it makes me think learning a second language mustn't be an obligation. I have to sth to make it more charming , I need to show them that a new language is a door of a new world, new people , new cultures. inci inci Anna Rita Anna Rita I teach English in a secondary school, I find it difficult teaching English as a second Language and even giving my lessons in English because we have so different kids with special needs. Sometimes I see my best student feeling bored and I would like to give them more in order to increase their Language awareness. Carla Machado, Portugal Carla Machado, Portugal I teach English in a secondary school. And yes! I feel like a language-aware teacher. I have several students from other countries and sometimes I think the American melting pot has become a global one. So, I am truly prepared to welcome my students with different Hellos :) and I know they love it. They feel home! Lia, Italy Lia, Italy I teach English in a secondary school. I do have students with a very low background, who barely speak Italian, besides foreign students and last but not least students with special needs. Having said that, I need to be a language aware teacher and constanty switching from one code to another in order to involve all my students. Lucia, Ita Lucia, Ita I teach Maths and Physics in a secondary school. I believe it is fundamental for students whose first language is different from the language of schooling because they will be supported by subject teachers who have a much better understanding of the role that language plays in knowledge building. I am a teacher in pr I am a teacher in primary school. I am teaching language subject in the classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Being aware of the diversity of languages learners helps a teacher to recognize the differences in behavior and attitude of learners and how to pattern his teaching. Tiziana Varone, Ita Tiziana Varone, Ita I'm a ¨language-aware¨ teacher: I believe in the benefits coming from learning a second tongue, first of all the freedom to travel and work all over the world; I also think that living language diversity in classroom is an added value of the school experience, because it compells students and teachers to really do the effort to communicate in the language of the other and to daily practice a foreign language I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. Varvara Gashenko, Latvia Varvara Gashenko, Latvia i teach English and German in a secondary professional school and i need this course because i would like to use different CLIL activities at my lessons in order to make them more interested in English I I Odarka Kukite, Latvia Odarka Kukite, Latvia i teach English and French in a secondary professional school and i need this course in order to help my foreign students to improve their language awareness. Alessandra Amideo, Alessandra Amideo, ITALY I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian language and literature. Yes, I feel like a teacher who is attentive to the language. I think it is important to be a teacher who knows the language because it gives you the awareness of mastering it and consequently transmitting it to the students. . Roberta Di Pietro, Italy Roberta Di Pietro, Italy I teach in the primary school and to some extent, I think to be a language aware teacher. Luckily, I studied languages and I've been abroad learning in other languages. This influence my way of approachingbilingual students. However I know I can still improve and I hope this course will give me further information and help me finding more effective strategies to teach to my students and help them improve their learning methods and their language awareness, those who are bilingual and those who aren't, to help them become better citizens. Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) I teach English in a primary school with a small number of pupils from foreign countries. I believe it is fundamental to implement linguistic awareness for the purposes of integration and inclusion, important educational values to be transmitted. Rosy (Italy) Rosy (Italy) I am a teacher in a secondary school in Catania. I work with guys who have special needs and in my classroom there are only two foreign students. I Think that language awareness is important for every teacher and usefull to help pupils whose first language is different from the school's one. It is important not only to teach a foreign language but also to make pupils aware of the cultures of other school mates. School is not only a place where everyone acquires knowledge, but also a place where one learns to live together and builds common values . So that, everyone can find our place in classroom. Federica (Italy) Federica (Italy) I feel like a language-curious teacher rather than being aware of language diversity in my classroom. I still need to readapt my teaching to capture more effectively those who are bilingual and also to make Italian mother tongue students aware of their peers' difficulties Mariateresa De Mattia Mariateresa De Mattia I'm a teacher in an Italian school at Foggia.In my classroom i work with pupils who have special needs and so I think that language awareness is very important to comunicate and help them in their difficulties Alex_PT Alex_PT I am an EFL teacher in Portugal in a rural area, and even though we haven’t had many immigrants, the truth is that in the last – let’s say – two years, we’ve welcome some eastern Europeans, but basically, Brazilians. These students are all having extra classes in Portuguese in order to be able to comply and in what concerns my subject English as a Foreign Language, they are also problematic. I believe I am a language-aware teacher, conscious that my sts’ proficiency varies according to the context and subject – in Portuguese or English! Nevertheless, I have no doubts that if I was native-born or had more opportunities for local professional development, I would certainly acquire not only a more accurate language sensitivity but also have a better, improved perception of sociocultural aspects. Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy I'm a teacher in an Italian Primary School. In my school there are children who came from different parts of world, especially from China. There are also many pupils whit special needs. In my opinion, the language awareness is very important to help these students in their difficulties. I'ld like to improuve my knowledge for my job and for the benefit of children. Claudia Mazzone -Italy Claudia Mazzone -Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school in Naples. I work with guys who have particular needs. In the class where I teach there are students who come from different parts of the world. I'd like to improve my linguistic skills, because I think that the language awareness is a fundamental way to communicate with foreigners students, to check out their abilities and difficulties, in the way to make them feel part of the class, with benefits for their schoolmates and teachers. Rita Xuereb, Malta Rita Xuereb, Malta I am a Kindergarten Educator in a Maltese Public School, and our school population consists mainly of immigrants from all over the world. It's very difficult to communicate in Maltese so we use English as our common language. It’s also very interesting to observe how these 3-5 year olds communicate with each other in spite of their multicultural and language diversity. I would like to learn how to take advantage of this reality for the benefit of the children. RITA LUISO -ITALY RITA LUISO -ITALY I am a teacher in a technical school where there are a lot of immigrant and I try to make them aware of the importance of knowledge of a language to communicate to the other. In my classroom there different students with special needs and I'd like to improve my knowledge to help these students Daniela Galea, Malta Daniela Galea, Malta I am a primary teacher at Marsascala Primary School in Malta. My school is one of the most multicultural schools on our island that's why I think it is very important to make students aware of the importance of communicating through language. Martina Tettamanzi, Italy Martina Tettamanzi, Italy I am a teacher in an Italian Secondary School. I'm willing to improve my knowledge about communication and language awaress in order to help foreing students to learn a new language. I am a teacher in se I am a teacher in secondary school to students with special needs and I think it’s very important and useful to explore the communicative resources in the classroo I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. That is why I think it is important to get to your pupils/students and make them aware of the importance of communicate through language, any language. Daniela Roversi Daniela Roversi I teach German in an Italian Secondary school. I think, it's very useful, that the teacher remembers, how he/she learnt a foreign language, when he/she was at school. Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta I am a primary teacher in the tiny island of Gozo. Our mother tongue is Maltese and our second language is English. We start teaching both languages to our students from a very young age. Maltese, our mother language is part of our identity and culture, however English helps us communicate with the rest of the world. Filomena Montella, Italy Filomena Montella, Italy I am a teacher of Italian language and literature and history in secondary school. I strongly believe in the value of language as an important element of communication, that is, "putting in common" a message and having the right feedback HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY I am a teacher in a country where immigrants live intensively. I have a lot of information about this. I think I need more information about this. I find this course very important. more_vert LORETTA LORETTA I AM A SCIENCE TEACHER IN A SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ITALY. I THINK THAT LANGUAGE CAN HELP ME TO COMMUNICATE WITH STUDENTS THAT DO NOT SPEAK THE MAIN LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION Maren, Germany Maren, Germany I am a soon to be teacher in high school. Many Students are facing difficulties in their first language and hence in learning new languages. Being language aware of ALL languages surrounding children is super important in order to provide every student with the help that is necessary to succeed in language acquisition. Gabriella,Italy Gabriella,Italy I teach maths and science in a junior high school in Naples. In my opinion the students that use CLIL activities will have more opportunities in the future for their jobs, but olso for their life because they will become really European Citizen Rosamaria Teodorani Rosamaria Teodorani I'm a primary school teacher in Rome. I believe in the importance of Learning languages as a language is the key to get in a culture, explore it, experience diversity and open your mind. To learn languages it makes you undertand that all cultures have devoloped similar logical structures to communicate, that there are lots of similarities. It is a an exciting experience. Julia, Poland Julia, Poland I am a trainer for teachers working with children with immigration experience (usually from Ukraine). Our systhem of education is just on the beginning with that subject. I think that it is very important to use experience from other countries, with longer history of multilingual schools. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. Alina, Romania Roberta from Italy Roberta from Italy I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students, and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy studying a new langua R R Gina , Italy Gina , Italy I'm a teacher in secondary high school and unfortunately many of my students have problems with their mother tongue language and therefore English is difficult to face in the classroom. So LA is mandatory to learn news ways to get them motivated. I w I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. Federica Tagliafichi Federica Tagliafichi I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I teach English in a I teach English in a Primary School and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides,language diversity allows facing with people of different countries and cultures, so that our pupils can estend their knowledge. Stefania Stefania I'm a teacher in a primary school. I believe that it is our responsability to make the second language learning more enjoyable, trying to eliminate the difficulties and understand what we can do to support students. I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures Martina Martina Martina from Italy Martina from Italy Different languages, different cultures, different people! Our job is amazing. We have the possibility to spread the knowledge and the love for the human being. MariaM - Gaeta, Italy MariaM - Gaeta, Italy I’m a primary school teacher and I do believe that language is a vehicle for learning. This year I'm teaching English in a fifth class and I will experience some CLIL activities, so that my pupils can understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. he classroom. I want my s he classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Carolina From Italy Carolina From Italy I'm a teacher ,I teach English in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Lia from Italy Lia from Italy I am an English teacher at Primary School. I am aware of language development. I think that working in very multicultural contexts helped me a lot. Patrícia, Porto, Portugal Patrícia, Porto, Portugal I teach Portuguese and English and I work with young learners and teenagers too. I try to be very active with my students when it comes to language awareness... When we are working together we know that language is culture, language is identity, communication... And I try to share my passion with them, so they too will want to learn different languages, travel, meet new people... Lia MOlini from ITaly Lia MOlini from ITaly Pizzi Mariagle Pizzi Mariagle Italy I'm a French teacher in a secondary school and as we a have students with special needs or ADHD students I find very difficult planning lessons for a so wide diversity of students. But languages are too much important in these 10 last years and it's important to find to involve everybody. inci Süzer, Turkey inci Süzer, Turkey whenever my students ask "why do we learn English, does English kids learn Turkish aswell?" it makes me think learning a second language mustn't be an obligation. I have to sth to make it more charming , I need to show them that a new language is a door of a new world, new people , new cultures. inci inci Anna Rita Anna Rita I teach English in a secondary school, I find it difficult teaching English as a second Language and even giving my lessons in English because we have so different kids with special needs. Sometimes I see my best student feeling bored and I would like to give them more in order to increase their Language awareness. Carla Machado, Portugal Carla Machado, Portugal I teach English in a secondary school. And yes! I feel like a language-aware teacher. I have several students from other countries and sometimes I think the American melting pot has become a global one. So, I am truly prepared to welcome my students with different Hellos :) and I know they love it. They feel home! Lia, Italy Lia, Italy I teach English in a secondary school. I do have students with a very low background, who barely speak Italian, besides foreign students and last but not least students with special needs. Having said that, I need to be a language aware teacher and constanty switching from one code to another in order to involve all my students. Lucia, Ita Lucia, Ita I teach Maths and Physics in a secondary school. I believe it is fundamental for students whose first language is different from the language of schooling because they will be supported by subject teachers who have a much better understanding of the role that language plays in knowledge building. I am a teacher in pr I am a teacher in primary school. I am teaching language subject in the classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Being aware of the diversity of languages learners helps a teacher to recognize the differences in behavior and attitude of learners and how to pattern his teaching. Tiziana Varone, Ita Tiziana Varone, Ita I'm a ¨language-aware¨ teacher: I believe in the benefits coming from learning a second tongue, first of all the freedom to travel and work all over the world; I also think that living language diversity in classroom is an added value of the school experience, because it compells students and teachers to really do the effort to communicate in the language of the other and to daily practice a foreign language I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. Varvara Gashenko, Latvia Varvara Gashenko, Latvia i teach English and German in a secondary professional school and i need this course because i would like to use different CLIL activities at my lessons in order to make them more interested in English I I Odarka Kukite, Latvia Odarka Kukite, Latvia i teach English and French in a secondary professional school and i need this course in order to help my foreign students to improve their language awareness. Alessandra Amideo, Alessandra Amideo, ITALY I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian language and literature. Yes, I feel like a teacher who is attentive to the language. I think it is important to be a teacher who knows the language because it gives you the awareness of mastering it and consequently transmitting it to the students. . Roberta Di Pietro, Italy Roberta Di Pietro, Italy I teach in the primary school and to some extent, I think to be a language aware teacher. Luckily, I studied languages and I've been abroad learning in other languages. This influence my way of approachingbilingual students. However I know I can still improve and I hope this course will give me further information and help me finding more effective strategies to teach to my students and help them improve their learning methods and their language awareness, those who are bilingual and those who aren't, to help them become better citizens. Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) I teach English in a primary school with a small number of pupils from foreign countries. I believe it is fundamental to implement linguistic awareness for the purposes of integration and inclusion, important educational values to be transmitted. Rosy (Italy) Rosy (Italy) I am a teacher in a secondary school in Catania. I work with guys who have special needs and in my classroom there are only two foreign students. I Think that language awareness is important for every teacher and usefull to help pupils whose first language is different from the school's one. It is important not only to teach a foreign language but also to make pupils aware of the cultures of other school mates. School is not only a place where everyone acquires knowledge, but also a place where one learns to live together and builds common values . So that, everyone can find our place in classroom. Federica (Italy) Federica (Italy) I feel like a language-curious teacher rather than being aware of language diversity in my classroom. I still need to readapt my teaching to capture more effectively those who are bilingual and also to make Italian mother tongue students aware of their peers' difficulties Mariateresa De Mattia Mariateresa De Mattia I'm a teacher in an Italian school at Foggia.In my classroom i work with pupils who have special needs and so I think that language awareness is very important to comunicate and help them in their difficulties Alex_PT Alex_PT I am an EFL teacher in Portugal in a rural area, and even though we haven’t had many immigrants, the truth is that in the last – let’s say – two years, we’ve welcome some eastern Europeans, but basically, Brazilians. These students are all having extra classes in Portuguese in order to be able to comply and in what concerns my subject English as a Foreign Language, they are also problematic. I believe I am a language-aware teacher, conscious that my sts’ proficiency varies according to the context and subject – in Portuguese or English! Nevertheless, I have no doubts that if I was native-born or had more opportunities for local professional development, I would certainly acquire not only a more accurate language sensitivity but also have a better, improved perception of sociocultural aspects. Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy I'm a teacher in an Italian Primary School. In my school there are children who came from different parts of world, especially from China. There are also many pupils whit special needs. In my opinion, the language awareness is very important to help these students in their difficulties. I'ld like to improuve my knowledge for my job and for the benefit of children. Claudia Mazzone -Italy Claudia Mazzone -Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school in Naples. I work with guys who have particular needs. In the class where I teach there are students who come from different parts of the world. I'd like to improve my linguistic skills, because I think that the language awareness is a fundamental way to communicate with foreigners students, to check out their abilities and difficulties, in the way to make them feel part of the class, with benefits for their schoolmates and teachers. Rita Xuereb, Malta Rita Xuereb, Malta I am a Kindergarten Educator in a Maltese Public School, and our school population consists mainly of immigrants from all over the world. It's very difficult to communicate in Maltese so we use English as our common language. It’s also very interesting to observe how these 3-5 year olds communicate with each other in spite of their multicultural and language diversity. I would like to learn how to take advantage of this reality for the benefit of the children. RITA LUISO -ITALY RITA LUISO -ITALY I am a teacher in a technical school where there are a lot of immigrant and I try to make them aware of the importance of knowledge of a language to communicate to the other. In my classroom there different students with special needs and I'd like to improve my knowledge to help these students Daniela Galea, Malta Daniela Galea, Malta I am a primary teacher at Marsascala Primary School in Malta. My school is one of the most multicultural schools on our island that's why I think it is very important to make students aware of the importance of communicating through language. Martina Tettamanzi, Italy Martina Tettamanzi, Italy I am a teacher in an Italian Secondary School. I'm willing to improve my knowledge about communication and language awaress in order to help foreing students to learn a new language. I am a teacher in se I am a teacher in secondary school to students with special needs and I think it’s very important and useful to explore the communicative resources in the classroo I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. That is why I think it is important to get to your pupils/students and make them aware of the importance of communicate through language, any language. Daniela Roversi Daniela Roversi I teach German in an Italian Secondary school. I think, it's very useful, that the teacher remembers, how he/she learnt a foreign language, when he/she was at school. Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta I am a primary teacher in the tiny island of Gozo. Our mother tongue is Maltese and our second language is English. We start teaching both languages to our students from a very young age. Maltese, our mother language is part of our identity and culture, however English helps us communicate with the rest of the world. Filomena Montella, Italy Filomena Montella, Italy I am a teacher of Italian language and literature and history in secondary school. I strongly believe in the value of language as an important element of communication, that is, "putting in common" a message and having the right feedback HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY I am a teacher in a country where immigrants live intensively. I have a lot of information about this. I think I need more information about this. I find this course very important. think is important teaching C.l.i.l. think is important teaching C.l.i.l. M. Rosa Italy Ipermahia Christodoulou , Greece Ipermahia Christodoulou , Greece I'm a primary school English Language teacher. In my opinion is that we should care of the L1 the language that a child speaks and hears as mother tongue and mainly the L2 the language that a child with a different mother tongue is taught at school.L3 the foreign language which is compulsory to learn and at least the second foreign language which the child can choose to learn.When the child learns good the L2, there will not any problems to learn whatever language he/she prefers to. Roberta (Italy) Roberta (Italy) I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy learning a new language Eda Harp Zübari,Turkey Eda Harp Zübari,Turkey I am an English Language Teacher.I work in the southeastern of Turkey.The city has a lot of refugees from Syria.That is why,some of my students are Syrians.Some of them knows Turkish and English but most of them dont know either.We have difficulty in communication.The course may help me how to deal with this situation.Besides,most of my students dont believe in the beneficiency in learning a foreign language.I tell them about why we learn another language but some of them still insist on not to learn.They dont have an opportunity to communicate in English.Anyway,I hope this course will be useful both for me and my students.Thanks. Elín Iceland Elín Iceland I am taking my first steps in teaching foreign kids Icelandic. I like to know what to do for each ages. When start grammar and witch way. Caterina from Italy Caterina from Italy I'm a teacher in a primary school, in my class there're pupils from Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Poland, and also one pupil with an Italian father an a Brazilian mother. I hope to improve my language aware during this course, to dive in the languages' ocean and discover the common underlying proficiency. Veronica, teacher -to Veronica, teacher -to I’m still not a teacher, but I’m studying to become a teacher in primary school. I think that is very important nowadays to be a language-aware teacher because of our world is every time more international and every school becomes a mix of cultures of all over the world. Furthermore, languages are every day more important for the professional and private life of everyone. Like a teacher, I think it could be great to let the children discover things about languages in the world, and let the children that know more than one language express themselves about their mother tongue. This will also permit us, like teaches, to understand more them like person, to understand the way they think, to help them doing connections to learning the language of the city where they live now, and to introduce them and the other children to an open-mind thinking. I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Learning another language improves the critical thinking, encourage cultural appreciation and interpersonal connection, as well as the possibility to advance research. Language diversity helps not only to develop interpersonal and intercultural abilities , but also helps people to be I teach Italian as L2 in Germany. Learning another language improves the critical thinking, encourage cultural appreciation and interpersonal connection, as well as the possibility to advance research. Language diversity helps not only to develop interpersonal and intercultural abilities , but also helps people to be experience from other cou experience from other countries, with longer history of multilingual schools. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. Alina, Romania Roberta from Italy Roberta from Italy I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students, and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy studying a new langua R R Gina , Italy Gina , Italy I'm a teacher in secondary high school and unfortunately many of my students have problems with their mother tongue language and therefore English is difficult to face in the classroom. So LA is mandatory to learn news ways to get them motivated. I w I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. Federica Tagliafichi Federica Tagliafichi I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I teach English in a I teach English in a Primary School and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides,language diversity allows facing with people of different countries and cultures, so that our pupils can estend their knowledge. Stefania Stefania I'm a teacher in a primary school. I believe that it is our responsability to make the second language learning more enjoyable, trying to eliminate the difficulties and understand what we can do to support students. I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures Martina Martina Martina from Italy Martina from Italy Different languages, different cultures, different people! Our job is amazing. We have the possibility to spread the knowledge and the love for the human being. MariaM - Gaeta, Italy MariaM - Gaeta, Italy I’m a primary school teacher and I do believe that language is a vehicle for learning. This year I'm teaching English in a fifth class and I will experience some CLIL activities, so that my pupils can understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. he classroom. I want my s he classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Carolina From Italy Carolina From Italy I'm a teacher ,I teach English in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Lia from Italy Lia from Italy I am an English teacher at Primary School. I am aware of language development. I think that working in very multicultural contexts helped me a lot. Patrícia, Porto, Portugal Patrícia, Porto, Portugal I teach Portuguese and English and I work with young learners and teenagers too. I try to be very active with my students when it comes to language awareness... When we are working together we know that language is culture, language is identity, communication... And I try to share my passion with them, so they too will want to learn different languages, travel, meet new people... Lia MOlini from ITaly Lia MOlini from ITaly Pizzi Mariagle Pizzi Mariagle Italy I'm a French teacher in a secondary school and as we a have students with special needs or ADHD students I find very difficult planning lessons for a so wide diversity of students. But languages are too much important in these 10 last years and it's important to find to involve everybody. inci Süzer, Turkey inci Süzer, Turkey whenever my students ask "why do we learn English, does English kids learn Turkish aswell?" it makes me think learning a second language mustn't be an obligation. I have to sth to make it more charming , I need to show them that a new language is a door of a new world, new people , new cultures. inci inci Anna Rita Anna Rita I teach English in a secondary school, I find it difficult teaching English as a second Language and even giving my lessons in English because we have so different kids with special needs. Sometimes I see my best student feeling bored and I would like to give them more in order to increase their Language awareness. Carla Machado, Portugal Carla Machado, Portugal I teach English in a secondary school. And yes! I feel like a language-aware teacher. I have several students from other countries and sometimes I think the American melting pot has become a global one. So, I am truly prepared to welcome my students with different Hellos :) and I know they love it. They feel home! Lia, Italy Lia, Italy I teach English in a secondary school. I do have students with a very low background, who barely speak Italian, besides foreign students and last but not least students with special needs. Having said that, I need to be a language aware teacher and constanty switching from one code to another in order to involve all my students. Lucia, Ita Lucia, Ita I teach Maths and Physics in a secondary school. I believe it is fundamental for students whose first language is different from the language of schooling because they will be supported by subject teachers who have a much better understanding of the role that language plays in knowledge building. I am a teacher in pr I am a teacher in primary school. I am teaching language subject in the classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Being aware of the diversity of languages learners helps a teacher to recognize the differences in behavior and attitude of learners and how to pattern his teaching. Tiziana Varone, Ita Tiziana Varone, Ita I'm a ¨language-aware¨ teacher: I believe in the benefits coming from learning a second tongue, first of all the freedom to travel and work all over the world; I also think that living language diversity in classroom is an added value of the school experience, because it compells students and teachers to really do the effort to communicate in the language of the other and to daily practice a foreign language I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. Varvara Gashenko, Latvia Varvara Gashenko, Latvia i teach English and German in a secondary professional school and i need this course because i would like to use different CLIL activities at my lessons in order to make them more interested in English I I Odarka Kukite, Latvia Odarka Kukite, Latvia i teach English and French in a secondary professional school and i need this course in order to help my foreign students to improve their language awareness. Alessandra Amideo, Alessandra Amideo, ITALY I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian language and literature. Yes, I feel like a teacher who is attentive to the language. I think it is important to be a teacher who knows the language because it gives you the awareness of mastering it and consequently transmitting it to the students. . Roberta Di Pietro, Italy Roberta Di Pietro, Italy I teach in the primary school and to some extent, I think to be a language aware teacher. Luckily, I studied languages and I've been abroad learning in other languages. This influence my way of approachingbilingual students. However I know I can still improve and I hope this course will give me further information and help me finding more effective strategies to teach to my students and help them improve their learning methods and their language awareness, those who are bilingual and those who aren't, to help them become better citizens. Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) I teach English in a primary school with a small number of pupils from foreign countries. I believe it is fundamental to implement linguistic awareness for the purposes of integration and inclusion, important educational values to be transmitted. Rosy (Italy) Rosy (Italy) I am a teacher in a secondary school in Catania. I work with guys who have special needs and in my classroom there are only two foreign students. I Think that language awareness is important for every teacher and usefull to help pupils whose first language is different from the school's one. It is important not only to teach a foreign language but also to make pupils aware of the cultures of other school mates. School is not only a place where everyone acquires knowledge, but also a place where one learns to live together and builds common values . So that, everyone can find our place in classroom. Federica (Italy) Federica (Italy) I feel like a language-curious teacher rather than being aware of language diversity in my classroom. I still need to readapt my teaching to capture more effectively those who are bilingual and also to make Italian mother tongue students aware of their peers' difficulties Mariateresa De Mattia Mariateresa De Mattia I'm a teacher in an Italian school at Foggia.In my classroom i work with pupils who have special needs and so I think that language awareness is very important to comunicate and help them in their difficulties Alex_PT Alex_PT I am an EFL teacher in Portugal in a rural area, and even though we haven’t had many immigrants, the truth is that in the last – let’s say – two years, we’ve welcome some eastern Europeans, but basically, Brazilians. These students are all having extra classes in Portuguese in order to be able to comply and in what concerns my subject English as a Foreign Language, they are also problematic. I believe I am a language-aware teacher, conscious that my sts’ proficiency varies according to the context and subject – in Portuguese or English! Nevertheless, I have no doubts that if I was native-born or had more opportunities for local professional development, I would certainly acquire not only a more accurate language sensitivity but also have a better, improved perception of sociocultural aspects. Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy I'm a teacher in an Italian Primary School. In my school there are children who came from different parts of world, especially from China. There are also many pupils whit special needs. In my opinion, the language awareness is very important to help these students in their difficulties. I'ld like to improuve my knowledge for my job and for the benefit of children. Claudia Mazzone -Italy Claudia Mazzone -Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school in Naples. I work with guys who have particular needs. In the class where I teach there are students who come from different parts of the world. I'd like to improve my linguistic skills, because I think that the language awareness is a fundamental way to communicate with foreigners students, to check out their abilities and difficulties, in the way to make them feel part of the class, with benefits for their schoolmates and teachers. Rita Xuereb, Malta Rita Xuereb, Malta I am a Kindergarten Educator in a Maltese Public School, and our school population consists mainly of immigrants from all over the world. It's very difficult to communicate in Maltese so we use English as our common language. It’s also very interesting to observe how these 3-5 year olds communicate with each other in spite of their multicultural and language diversity. I would like to learn how to take advantage of this reality for the benefit of the children. RITA LUISO -ITALY RITA LUISO -ITALY I am a teacher in a technical school where there are a lot of immigrant and I try to make them aware of the importance of knowledge of a language to communicate to the other. In my classroom there different students with special needs and I'd like to improve my knowledge to help these students Daniela Galea, Malta Daniela Galea, Malta I am a primary teacher at Marsascala Primary School in Malta. My school is one of the most multicultural schools on our island that's why I think it is very important to make students aware of the importance of communicating through language. Martina Tettamanzi, Italy Martina Tettamanzi, Italy I am a teacher in an Italian Secondary School. I'm willing to improve my knowledge about communication and language awaress in order to help foreing students to learn a new language. I am a teacher in se I am a teacher in secondary school to students with special needs and I think it’s very important and useful to explore the communicative resources in the classroo I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. That is why I think it is important to get to your pupils/students and make them aware of the importance of communicate through language, any language. Daniela Roversi Daniela Roversi I teach German in an Italian Secondary school. I think, it's very useful, that the teacher remembers, how he/she learnt a foreign language, when he/she was at school. Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta I am a primary teacher in the tiny island of Gozo. Our mother tongue is Maltese and our second language is English. We start teaching both languages to our students from a very young age. Maltese, our mother language is part of our identity and culture, however English helps us communicate with the rest of the world. Filomena Montella, Italy Filomena Montella, Italy I am a teacher of Italian language and literature and history in secondary school. I strongly believe in the value of language as an important element of communication, that is, "putting in common" a message and having the right feedback HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY I am a teacher in a country where immigrants live intensively. I have a lot of information about this. I think I need more information about this. I find this course very important. LORETTA LORETTA I AM A SCIENCE TEACHER IN A SECONDARY SCHOOL IN ITALY. I THINK THAT LANGUAGE CAN HELP ME TO COMMUNICATE WITH STUDENTS THAT DO NOT SPEAK THE MAIN LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION Maren, Germany Maren, Germany I am a soon to be teacher in high school. Many Students are facing difficulties in their first language and hence in learning new languages. Being language aware of ALL languages surrounding children is super important in order to provide every student with the help that is necessary to succeed in language acquisition. Gabriella,Italy Gabriella,Italy I teach maths and science in a junior high school in Naples. In my opinion the students that use CLIL activities will have more opportunities in the future for their jobs, but olso for their life because they will become really European Citizen Rosamaria Teodorani Rosamaria Teodorani I'm a primary school teacher in Rome. I believe in the importance of Learning languages as a language is the key to get in a culture, explore it, experience diversity and open your mind. To learn languages it makes you undertand that all cultures have devoloped similar logical structures to communicate, that there are lots of similarities. It is a an exciting experience. Julia, Poland Julia, Poland I am a trainer for teachers working with children with immigration experience (usually from Ukraine). Our systhem of education is just on the beginning with that subject. I think that it is very important to use experience from other countries, with longer history of multilingual schools. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. I am a primary teacher and I teach all the subjects in Romania. My pupils also learn English, as a foreign language. It helps them to think in another way, to communicate in other language. I also have pupils born in Italy or in another country and they are very enthusiastic when they can share words or things they know about that country. Learning or speaking another language we can know a little about the culture of a country which language we learn. Alina, Romania Roberta from Italy Roberta from Italy I think I need to improve my language awarness to help all my students, and in particular those from other countries or with special needs to overcome their difficulties and enjoy studying a new langua R R Gina , Italy Gina , Italy I'm a teacher in secondary high school and unfortunately many of my students have problems with their mother tongue language and therefore English is difficult to face in the classroom. So LA is mandatory to learn news ways to get them motivated. I w I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. Federica Tagliafichi Federica Tagliafichi I work in a primary school and I am always surprised whenever I realize that language refers to cultural experiences that depend on individual experience. This is part of a collective culture that is formed through family and social experience. Sometimes it surprises me and it amuses me to understand how my students do not fully understand the meaning of the words they use, but they bend them to their experience. The words are alive and reflect the thought of each of us, the logos is the substratum of many varieties that have in common the human being. I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I'm a teacher of English in a secondary school. Most of my students barely know Italian that is their mother tongue. In addition I have a certain number of disabled students. So i find it extremely difficult to teach them English. I think that the concept of Common Underlying Proficiency can help I teach English in a I teach English in a Primary School and I think language diversity gives our pupils a new way of thinking and perceiving the world. Besides,language diversity allows facing with people of different countries and cultures, so that our pupils can estend their knowledge. Stefania Stefania I'm a teacher in a primary school. I believe that it is our responsability to make the second language learning more enjoyable, trying to eliminate the difficulties and understand what we can do to support students. I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures I'm a techer in a secondary school . I think that is very important teaching with CLIL lessons because students live together with foreign people and so they have to speak . they have to comunicate and use the language to learn other cultures Martina Martina Martina from Italy Martina from Italy Different languages, different cultures, different people! Our job is amazing. We have the possibility to spread the knowledge and the love for the human being. MariaM - Gaeta, Italy MariaM - Gaeta, Italy I’m a primary school teacher and I do believe that language is a vehicle for learning. This year I'm teaching English in a fifth class and I will experience some CLIL activities, so that my pupils can understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. he classroom. I want my s he classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Carolina From Italy Carolina From Italy I'm a teacher ,I teach English in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Rosario from Spain. I'm a teacher in a secondary school. Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them. Lia from Italy Lia from Italy I am an English teacher at Primary School. I am aware of language development. I think that working in very multicultural contexts helped me a lot. Patrícia, Porto, Portugal Patrícia, Porto, Portugal I teach Portuguese and English and I work with young learners and teenagers too. I try to be very active with my students when it comes to language awareness... When we are working together we know that language is culture, language is identity, communication... And I try to share my passion with them, so they too will want to learn different languages, travel, meet new people... Lia MOlini from ITaly Lia MOlini from ITaly Pizzi Mariagle Pizzi Mariagle Italy I'm a French teacher in a secondary school and as we a have students with special needs or ADHD students I find very difficult planning lessons for a so wide diversity of students. But languages are too much important in these 10 last years and it's important to find to involve everybody. inci Süzer, Turkey inci Süzer, Turkey whenever my students ask "why do we learn English, does English kids learn Turkish aswell?" it makes me think learning a second language mustn't be an obligation. I have to sth to make it more charming , I need to show them that a new language is a door of a new world, new people , new cultures. inci inci Anna Rita Anna Rita I teach English in a secondary school, I find it difficult teaching English as a second Language and even giving my lessons in English because we have so different kids with special needs. Sometimes I see my best student feeling bored and I would like to give them more in order to increase their Language awareness. Carla Machado, Portugal Carla Machado, Portugal I teach English in a secondary school. And yes! I feel like a language-aware teacher. I have several students from other countries and sometimes I think the American melting pot has become a global one. So, I am truly prepared to welcome my students with different Hellos :) and I know they love it. They feel home! Lia, Italy Lia, Italy I teach English in a secondary school. I do have students with a very low background, who barely speak Italian, besides foreign students and last but not least students with special needs. Having said that, I need to be a language aware teacher and constanty switching from one code to another in order to involve all my students. Lucia, Ita Lucia, Ita I teach Maths and Physics in a secondary school. I believe it is fundamental for students whose first language is different from the language of schooling because they will be supported by subject teachers who have a much better understanding of the role that language plays in knowledge building. I am a teacher in pr I am a teacher in primary school. I am teaching language subject in the classroom. I want my students to be aware of different languages used by their classmates. So that they can communicate with them easily and able to understand also and to do so firstly i have to learn what is language awareness and how to teach them about it. Stanley,Nigeria Stanley,Nigeria Being aware of the diversity of languages learners helps a teacher to recognize the differences in behavior and attitude of learners and how to pattern his teaching. Tiziana Varone, Ita Tiziana Varone, Ita I'm a ¨language-aware¨ teacher: I believe in the benefits coming from learning a second tongue, first of all the freedom to travel and work all over the world; I also think that living language diversity in classroom is an added value of the school experience, because it compells students and teachers to really do the effort to communicate in the language of the other and to daily practice a foreign language I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. I think it it is very important that students can become aware of the importance of learning a different language and to know other cultures. I hope this course will give me strategies and methods to teach a foreign language (French and English) and allows students to overcome the difficulties that the study of a foreign language involves. Varvara Gashenko, Latvia Varvara Gashenko, Latvia i teach English and German in a secondary professional school and i need this course because i would like to use different CLIL activities at my lessons in order to make them more interested in English I I Odarka Kukite, Latvia Odarka Kukite, Latvia i teach English and French in a secondary professional school and i need this course in order to help my foreign students to improve their language awareness. Alessandra Amideo, Alessandra Amideo, ITALY I am a high school teacher and I teach Italian language and literature. Yes, I feel like a teacher who is attentive to the language. I think it is important to be a teacher who knows the language because it gives you the awareness of mastering it and consequently transmitting it to the students. . Roberta Di Pietro, Italy Roberta Di Pietro, Italy I teach in the primary school and to some extent, I think to be a language aware teacher. Luckily, I studied languages and I've been abroad learning in other languages. This influence my way of approachingbilingual students. However I know I can still improve and I hope this course will give me further information and help me finding more effective strategies to teach to my students and help them improve their learning methods and their language awareness, those who are bilingual and those who aren't, to help them become better citizens. Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) Patrizia Lampis (Sardinia - Italy) I teach English in a primary school with a small number of pupils from foreign countries. I believe it is fundamental to implement linguistic awareness for the purposes of integration and inclusion, important educational values to be transmitted. Rosy (Italy) Rosy (Italy) I am a teacher in a secondary school in Catania. I work with guys who have special needs and in my classroom there are only two foreign students. I Think that language awareness is important for every teacher and usefull to help pupils whose first language is different from the school's one. It is important not only to teach a foreign language but also to make pupils aware of the cultures of other school mates. School is not only a place where everyone acquires knowledge, but also a place where one learns to live together and builds common values . So that, everyone can find our place in classroom. Federica (Italy) Federica (Italy) I feel like a language-curious teacher rather than being aware of language diversity in my classroom. I still need to readapt my teaching to capture more effectively those who are bilingual and also to make Italian mother tongue students aware of their peers' difficulties Mariateresa De Mattia Mariateresa De Mattia I'm a teacher in an Italian school at Foggia.In my classroom i work with pupils who have special needs and so I think that language awareness is very important to comunicate and help them in their difficulties Alex_PT Alex_PT I am an EFL teacher in Portugal in a rural area, and even though we haven’t had many immigrants, the truth is that in the last – let’s say – two years, we’ve welcomed some eastern Europeans, but basically, Brazilians. These students are all having extra classes in Portuguese in order to be able to comply and in what concerns my subject English as a Foreign Language, they are also problematic. I believe I am a language-aware teacher, conscious that my sts’ proficiency varies according to the context and subject – in Portuguese or English! Nevertheless, I have no doubts that if I was native-born or had more opportunities for local professional development, I would certainly acquire not only a more accurate language sensitivity but also have a better, improved perception of sociocultural aspects. Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy Maria Antonella Melfi - Foggia - Italy I'm a teacher in an Italian Primary School. In my school there are children who came from different parts of world, especially from China. There are also many pupils whit special needs. In my opinion, the language awareness is very important to help these students in their difficulties. I'ld like to improuve my knowledge for my job and for the benefit of children. Claudia Mazzone -Italy Claudia Mazzone -Italy I'm a teacher in a secondary school in Naples. I work with guys who have particular needs. In the class where I teach there are students who come from different parts of the world. I'd like to improve my linguistic skills, because I think that the language awareness is a fundamental way to communicate with foreigners students, to check out their abilities and difficulties, in the way to make them feel part of the class, with benefits for their schoolmates and teachers. Rita Xuereb, Malta Rita Xuereb, Malta I am a Kindergarten Educator in a Maltese Public School, and our school population consists mainly of immigrants from all over the world. It's very difficult to communicate in Maltese so we use English as our common language. It’s also very interesting to observe how these 3-5 year olds communicate with each other in spite of their multicultural and language diversity. I would like to learn how to take advantage of this reality for the benefit of the children. RITA LUISO -ITALY RITA LUISO -ITALY I am a teacher in a technical school where there are a lot of immigrant and I try to make them aware of the importance of knowledge of a language to communicate to the other. In my classroom there different students with special needs and I'd like to improve my knowledge to help these students Daniela Galea, Malta Daniela Galea, Malta I am a primary teacher at Marsascala Primary School in Malta. My school is one of the most multicultural schools on our island that's why I think it is very important to make students aware of the importance of communicating through language. Martina Tettamanzi, Italy Martina Tettamanzi, Italy I am a teacher in an Italian Secondary School. I'm willing to improve my knowledge about communication and language awaress in order to help foreing students to learn a new language. I am a teacher in se I am a teacher in secondary school to students with special needs and I think it’s very important and useful to explore the communicative resources in the classroo I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. I teach English or French in classroom that are more and more multicultural. That is why I think it is important to get to your pupils/students and make them aware of the importance of communicate through language, any language. Daniela Roversi Daniela Roversi I teach German in an Italian Secondary school. I think, it's very useful, that the teacher remembers, how he/she learnt a foreign language, when he/she was at school. Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta Miriam Grech, Gozo, Malta I am a primary teacher in the tiny island of Gozo. Our mother tongue is Maltese and our second language is English. We start teaching both languages to our students from a very young age. Maltese, our mother language is part of our identity and culture, however English helps us communicate with the rest of the world. Filomena Montella, Italy Filomena Montella, Italy I am a teacher of Italian language and literature and history in secondary school. I strongly believe in the value of language as an important element of communication, that is, "putting in common" a message and having the right feedback HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY HASAN TURGAY ÖZÇELİK-TURKEY I am a teacher in a country where immigrants live intensively. I have a lot of information about this. I think I need more information about this. I find this course very important.

Cristina, Portugal

2018-09-30 17:53:21 UTC

I teach English to students between 9 and 12 years old. I hope to be able to help such young students becoming aware of the importance of learning a second language. CLIL has been a great experience. It led me to reflect on the fundamental principle in teaching a language: communicate. With this course I hope to improve my skills at this level.

Angela,Italy

angela_zampella — 2018-09-30 18:12:26 UTC

Hi, I'm a kindergarten teacher. In my class many children come from Africa and North Europe.
It's most important to allow learners time and space to develop their own affective and experiential responses to the language.

Nimet, Türkiye

nimetergul — 2018-09-30 18:23:56 UTC

 
 

 I'm a primary school teacher. I have a student in my class who speaks a different language. He's eager to learn the language we're talking about. I try to improve their communication skills, reading and writing skills.

Gülay,Turkey

gulay_yazman — 2018-09-30 18:26:59 UTC

I am a teacher of english at high school,students aged btw 14-18 and also I am vice director.The biggest problem with my students during teaching foreign language is they don't have awarness of the importance of learning second languae.I am so happy be participant of this course.

Nurcan Değerli, Turkey

ndegerli — 2018-09-30 18:51:56 UTC

Hi , I work at a highschool and I teach English. Yes, I am a Language -aware teacher. I believe that different languages get closer the students. They learn other cultures and become more tolerant .

ndegerli — 2018-09-30 18:56:29 UTC

The importance of being language-aware Now that you know more about Language awareness, we ask you to reflect about this. Do you feel like a language-aware teacher? And if so, Why do you think it is important to b

Pantaleo, Italy

2018-09-30 19:03:04 UTC

Hi, I'm a Science teacher in a High School. I think that is important to have a certain level of proficiency or competence in the first and second language to be Language aware. Language awareness allows to manage more confidentially and effectively the communication of contents, emotions, feelings.

Stefania Carolina, Italy

2018-09-30 19:29:59 UTC

I'm a primary school teacher. In my class there are two Albanian girls, a Romanian boy and a newly arrived pupil from Morocco. There is also an italian girl who attended the kindergarden in China before starting Primary school in Italy. She attends a Chinese school too on saturdays. Mine is a very stimulating class! I think I should improve my linguistic awareness to be able to 1. recognize the interlinguistic level of my students, 2.to scaffold their learning, 3. to prevent their affective filter raise.

Giorgia, Romania

giorgiagroza — 2018-09-30 20:33:59 UTC

Since few years ago, in my litle town there were only Romanians. But nowadays I have some Chineese students. In adition, there are Romanian students who lived for some years in Italy or Spain where they have studied in Italian and Spanish and they are in 5th or 6th degree.
So, I definetly have to improve my communication skills.

Michela, Italy

2018-09-30 21:39:30 UTC

Being an EFL teacher, I understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning. All of my students are learning subjects through an additional language or come across certain vocabulary or structures in their native language for the first time. I'm determined to help my students face difficulties and do my best to support them.

2018-09-30 21:50:44 UTC

Teacher in a really multicultural school in the centre of Milan (Italy). Almost all my students are foreigners and some of them have just moved to Italy from coutries like The Philippines, Santo Domingo Syria and so on. It means that I NEED to become a language aware teacher. For this reason I am attending a Clil course and I want to

2018-09-30 21:51:01 UTC

Valentina Italy

2018-09-30 21:54:11 UTC

I teach Italian at middle school. I have 4 foreigner students: nobody of them can speak a word of italian. I don't know if I'm a language aware teacher , but I know I need to become it

Kati Italy

2018-09-30 22:02:23 UTC

Language Awareness is a must for contemporary teachers. We have to communicate with our foreign students, and to teach our italian students to communicate in other languages. My past experience as a foreigner (I worked for some years abroad) allows me to be empathic and to find the right way more easily

Anabela Almeida, Portugal

2018-09-30 22:27:41 UTC

Hello! I've been an English teacher for nearly 20 years. For the last 3, I've been teaching to younger kids, between 8 and 10, and it has been really rewarding to help them gradually gain a positive attitude toward the target language...so I feel that, at some point, I am a language-aware teacher as I also learn from them every day! And I need to learn even more...

Elisabetta

elisanteroma — 2018-09-30 22:48:22 UTC

I HAVE BEEN TEACHING Biology in Italy since 2001 and I have always taken in account the importance of being language-aware. Not only in

Italian, but also in foreign languages is it important focusing on this aspect in learning, in teaching and in general and accademic communication in order to develop skills and become competent effective and efficient.

Anis AmouriI'm a fine art teacher at Taieb MHIRI school Sfax,TUNISIA

amourianis — 2018-09-30 23:46:51 UTC

I feel I’m a language aware teacher ,i speak 3 language: arabic; french and english.
I believe that if the teachers know different languages, they will become closer for their students and They will learn other cultures and traditions.

Marina Stanojlovic Mircic

2018-10-01 00:01:04 UTC

Hello, my name is Marina and I am teaching Italian as a second foreign language in primary school in Serbia to the 12 to 15-year- old students. I am an educator with years of experience in different schools and social contexts. The approach of being language-aware at my opinion combine the ability to communicate in an appropriate and comprehensible way, to rework critically the acquired resources, and not least, the use of the oral expression and students' willingness to get involved in an unusual and innovative learning environment.

paolapatrizia_cardo — 2018-10-01 06:35:03 UTC

The importance of being language-aware Now that you know more about Language awareness, we ask you to reflect about this. Do you feel like a la

paolapatrizia_cardo — 2018-10-01 06:35:06 UTC

The importance of being language-aware Now that you know more about Language awareness, we ask you to reflect about this. Do you feel like a la

PAOLA PATRIZIA CARDO ITALIA

paolapatrizia_cardo — 2018-10-01 07:00:24 UTC

Hello, I'm Paola Patrizia and I'm a support teacher, so I find myself working with guys who have obvious problems in the language. I recognize the importance of the second language.
Sometimes the foreign language favors positive interdependence such that
the words and strategies tested to learn a foreign language can be a knowledge of one's mother tongue. I think that the teacher, and not just support, needs a state of extra compensation. In these cases: the humility of the teacher must know and explore their cognitive styles and their own learning modalities, to be aware of their own preferences, to narrate influences and teaching modalities. Exploring and making the pupils explore the different of learning from the perspective of a shared knowledge building.

Eugenia, Greece

2018-10-01 13:24:20 UTC

I am an English teacher. Being born in the USA, I was language aware from an early age since my parents spoke Greek. I have also learnt French and Italian. Being taught at school ancient Greek and Latin seems like language mechanisms have always fascinated me.

Maria A., Messina

mannunziata_loverso — 2018-10-01 13:51:53 UTC

I thinkLanguage Awareness is the explicit knowledge about
language: language learning, language teaching and
language use.
It includes awareness of how language works as a formal
system, socially, politically,
and culturally.

Feruze/TURKEY

feruzeerol — 2018-10-01 14:03:17 UTC

I think I'm not a language aware teacher but from now on I will develop myselfwith this course. I must be more careful about the students that don't know our main language.

Hi, I'm Ombretta, I teach biology in a high school. I think it's very important to use a language like English for anyone nowadays. I think this is important for being part of a community that is bigger and richer than the class or country of origin. It is a possibility of openness and personal growth.

2018-10-01 14:43:44 UTC

The importance of being language awareness.

2018-10-01 15:03:04 UTC

Hello, i m Vanessa ,
I teach in a primary school.
I think it' s very important to use a language like english for anyone nowadays.

The importance of language awareness in a global world

2018-10-01 15:10:44 UTC

Hello, I'm Irene, from Portugal andl ike Anis Amouri, I also feel that I’m a language aware teacher, because I speak 4 foreign languages: English, French, Spanish and a little bit of Italian. This way, I feel like I can communicate with people from different countries and cultures. Truly, even if I don’t know many, many languages, I believe that, with one of them, I will always have the chance to communicate with almost everyone. This aloud me, for example, to travel more comfortably when I want to or when I need to.

Of course, I believe that the students get many benefits if they have this conscience: that to be familiar with different languages is very important in our days! So, even if I don’t have too many foreign students in my class, I know that they can be foreigners in other countries one of this days: that’s one of the reasons why they should learn different languages!

As a mother tongue language and foreign language’s teacher, I often work with students who have many problems when they need to use them: some because they don’t find important to learn them, others because they feel like they don’t have the skills to learn them. This is obviously a wrong idea: everyone should know their mother tongue very well and everyone can learn other languages.

I believe that this is the prime idea we need to pass them to improve their skills and to help them to reach the academic and personal success we all desire! Especially since we live in a global world!

Elisabetta, Italy

2018-10-01 15:40:56 UTC

I do feel like a language-aware teacher, but in the loneliness given by this feeling at school. I think it is important so as to adopt a student-centred schooling, but also to feel like a world citizen who loves communicating with others and cooperating as a modern teacher.

Antonella P

avenusitita — 2018-10-01 15:45:32 UTC

Hi I am Antonella , I am from Italy and I teach English in a secondary school. I can speak 4 languages and I am learning another foreign language interacting with a mother tongue speaker avoinding usings books and specific courses. Notwidstanding this, I cannot define myself as a language - aware teacher: Even if I am conscious of the importance of language awareness I still have problems in making my students aware of the importance of learning a second or a third language. Many foreign students who are socially integrated in my country completely reject their “mother tongue” and their parents’ culture because they perceive themselves as Italian. They considered their difference not as a richness but as a kind of “ punishement" which makes them feel different from the other Italian students.

On the contrary, many other students use their first language as a "secret code" in classroom in order to not being understood by the other students and the teachers.

I think that this course could be very helpful to me to understand the dynamics of language acquisition and awareness

Maria Rita, Italy

mariarita_pepe — 2018-10-01 16:04:45 UTC

Being a language teacher and loving it, I have always thought I am a language-aware teacher. I am beginning to have doubts now and I want to learn more in order to improve.

Renata, Lithuania :)

2018-10-01 16:10:35 UTC

Hello everybody.
I'm social educator in school, and i love this job. Language is very important over all the world. Because u can touch a lots cultures in the world, peoples, their tradition. Especialy it needs for students to visit other countries and keep in touch with other students

Lelde

2018-10-01 16:36:08 UTC

Hi. I think all teachers should become a language - aware teachers in some way

@mjgsm from Spain

majegsm — 2018-10-01 16:41:40 UTC

Language awareness is essential, in my viewpoint, and being aware of it in the whole scale is also part of being an active listener, which is a key competence when in class.
I'm an ESL teacher in a small school in Northern Spain.

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Raquel Oliveira, Portugal

2018-10-01 17:25:15 UTC

Hello, I`m a primary school teacher. This year I moved to another school. I met many foreign students and that makes me reflect about all the diferent languages. So, to reach them is very important to be a language-aware teacher.

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Upasana Tripathi, from India

upasana181069_cce — 2018-10-01 18:22:54 UTC

Hello, I'm a B.Ed student. According to me language awareness is very important. I felt it when few australian students came to my college for exchange program then we were able to talk with each other in English comfortably that mae me reflect about other new languages .I think I'm language - aware would be teacher and i love to learn new languages it connects us with new culture and tradition.

Upasana tripa

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anabelavieiratv2004 — 2018-10-01 18:25:21 UTC

meanings of a language is part of language learning. By increasing students’ language awareness, the students are better able to understand, appreciate and use the language. I way to motivate my students' is envolving them in projects with other

Miroslava

miroslavafilipi — 2018-10-01 18:43:37 UTC

It is challenge of the contemporary word for all of us: teachers and also students. The teacher should help to the students how much as possible and it can be done only when knowing how to behave in classroom where are students - foreigners.

Victoria, Athens, Greec

2018-10-01 18:46:58 UTC

Hello, I m a teacher in primary school. Last year refuges pupils have come to school with different culture. It was a challenge for us to understand and take a positive opportunity for language awarenes

Francesca, Italia

2018-10-01 19:40:55 UTC

Hello, I'm a teacher in a secondary school where sometimes there are foreign students. In those cases I feel the urgency to communicate with them the best way I can, so I perceive that is important to talk with the students and also listen to them, for learning how they express themselves. Often, in fact, people use different ways to communicate. In this respect I think it is prominent learning better and better the language awareness, so that will be simple to achieve a real integration and a worthwhile teaching

Martina, Italy

mrnmtn — 2018-10-01 19:46:39 UTC

I have taught English in classes where one or more students didn't speak the instructional language and it was a great challenge for my teaching. In fact, I am not sure that I have always managed it in the best possible way. I wish this course will teach me the best strategies to address such issues and become a more language-aware teacher.

Aleksandra, Macedonia

aleksandrita_10 — 2018-10-01 20:07:42 UTC

Hello, I am a teacher in primary School in Skopje. I have been teaching English for 9 years and so for I have created an image of language awareness for me and my students. Language is a vehicle for learning. It is through language that learners access the content of the lesson and communicate their ideas. So, as teachers, it is our responsibility to make sure that language isn’t a barrier to learning.

Majlinda,ALBANIA

2018-10-01 20:08:14 UTC

Hi,My name is Majlinda.
I am teach English to my students.
I think that this course will help a lot on language awareness.

Duccio, Italy

2018-10-01 21:35:02 UTC

Hello, I teach Maths and science in lower secondary school. I have two students that don't speak italian (they came in italy in august) and they give me a chance to think about how clear are the instructions that I give to my students. My classes are becoming multilanguage: italian, english, french, albanian and arabian are welcome! I'm trying to become a language-aware techer!

Niyazi ALKAN

niyazialkan1549 — 2018-10-01 22:39:35 UTC

Hi everybody.I teach English during ten years and in all these years I realised that learning a foreign language is the most important thing that we teach in school.When a student learn a language it learns a new culture and a new world.

Cristiana

2018-10-01 23:04:16 UTC

Cristiana

2018-10-01 23:04:35 UTC

Definitely aware, but I still need to learn lots of things. I am aware of the constant connections that learners make between their mother tongue, the foreign language they are learning and the language of the country they live in. The more you are aware of the way language works and is processed the more you can help your students learn a foreign language.

Dora, Italy

2018-10-01 23:38:06 UTC

I feel quite language aware, but sometimes I have the feeling that's not enough, as , although I'm quite fluent both in my mother tongue and in other languages, I still have to find out how to transmit this kind of skill to my students, how to make them fond of language misteries just as I used to be when I was a student myself (and as I still am). I teach Italian, history and geography in the middle school.

Paulo Dionisio, Portugal

paulo_dionisio — 2018-10-02 05:23:13 UTC

I think that Language Awareness (LA) is for students a key competency for their future professional or scientific career. On the other hand, it is crucial for students to develop the ability to communicate with each other and critical thinking. In the classroom, taking into account cultural diversity, linguistic diversity is a dimension that should be considered by the teacher as an asset not only for the challenges and opportunities that can be established between all the actors in the classroom and the richness of the languages that are shared by students from different countries

Tihana, Croatia

tmudrovcict — 2018-10-02 06:59:55 UTC

Language awareness is really an important competence, and sometimes I feel not very competent when it comes to certain groups of students I teach( vocational middle school). I also think I sometimes put more emphasis on the cognitive academic language proficiency becuse of the way I have been trained(national curriculum that focuses not on the language proficiency itself but on fulfilling a certain norm).

Augusta, Ital

2018-10-02 07:36:23 UTC

I am a foreign language teacher in a secondary high school.
I teach English as L2 language and I support my colleagues in CLIL lessons.
It is absolutely necessary to be aware of the language we teach and the language our students use.
I hope this course can give me useful hints and strategies to help my students, colleagues and myself in increasing language awarenes

Paola

mucramu — 2018-10-02 08:34:36 UTC

For me Language aware nowadays is very important, because many people move their houses to leave somewhere else, where they could be find a better job. So, they make multicultural societies. We are teachers and we have to help their children to communicate and be sociable. Sofia Kotsou, Greece

ksofia2008 — 2018-10-02 08:38:56 UTC

Sien

2018-10-02 13:34:27 UTC

Teaching approaches that take into account language awareness improve pupils' wellbeing, because there is a bridge between the home and the identity on the one hand and school on the other hand. I am a teacher trainer and I think the best way for future teachers to become language-aware is to be treated/taught in a language-aware way...

2018-10-02 13:57:35 UTC

Alice, Italy

severi_alice — 2018-10-02 16:02:44 UTC

I think that language awareness is important in CLIL activity, because of the multicultural society we are living in.

Christelle, France

2018-10-02 17:02:18 UTC

I Think curiosity and language awareness are the most important qualities and skills to live in peace and respect each other. For many years I wasn't langage aware sothat I didn't unterstand why migrant and refugees are a real opportunity to build a future generation who will represent the variety oh human beings.

Maria Candida(Marica)-Italy

mpetillo — 2018-10-02 17:22:14 UTC

I really feel a language aware teacher as I have a real passion for languages and when I traveI always try to speak in the local language or at least to learn the essentials of the spoken language in that country.I try to transmit this passion to my students and I often make connections between languages,cultural and common concepts.My students have to grow up with an international mentality.I try to get an advantage from language and cultural diversity in the classroom.We have many students who are children of immigrants,although they were born in Italy.
I teach ESP for constructions using a CLIL methodology and I often underline similarities among different subjects

Ana, Spain

2018-10-02 17:35:01 UTC

I believe most language teachers are aware but we don't always feel the need to be fully aware as most of the times, in my case, all my students are Spanish or have Spanish as their mother tongue because they come from South America. Having said that, I feel the need to speak the same language of the people I talk to when I travel around Spain,ie in catalan, gallego, pretty ambitious would be euskera as it 's mega complicated. People feel more comfortable when they talk to you. I do think it's important!

Maria Luce Spagnolo, Italy

maluspagnolo — 2018-10-02 17:36:25 UTC

I'm trying to improve my language awareness because I think it's very important understand linguistic and cultural differences. Language awareness makes us able of appreciating variety richness and living in a global society

Hi,my name is Maria Paola I teach Science and Maths in a secondary school in Ragusa, a small city in the south of Sicily. I think that it is very important to comunicate with foreign students so, with this course I hope to learn new strategies to teach to my students. In my opinion, it could be usefull to introduce new methods and concepts io order to make my pupils aware of language. I hope my students will increase their knowledges and grow up during my lessons.

2018-10-02 17:42:21 UTC

Isabella

2018-10-02 18:42:55 UTC

Being a language-aware teacher is necessary to teach everything, to share ideas, culture, and understand what your students really say and need.

mpetillo — 2018-10-02 18:47:47 UTC

I really feel a language aware teacher as I have a real passion for languages and when I traveI always try to speak in the local language or at least to learn the essentials of

Natalja, Austria

2018-10-02 19:03:59 UTC

I recently started teaching and we learned a lot about Language Awarness at university, what it means, etc. but not how to really include it in the classroom. In Austria we have a lot of migration and I am a French and Spanish teacher, which means, that the languages I am teaching in my classroom often are the fourth or the fifth language my students are learning. As a language teacher I consider myself language aware, but I do not know how I can include Language Awareness in my classes in a practical way.

Chiara, Italy

chimancini — 2018-10-02 20:10:03 UTC

Using and practising languages can improve competences in understanding society and people and enhance the ability to get involved .

Ivana, Macedonia

ivannast16 — 2018-10-02 20:20:38 UTC

Language awareness means explicit knowledge about language, and conscious perception and sensitivity in language learning, language teaching and language use.I believe that being a language aware is essential for a language teacher because it can improve the interaction among students and attract their interest.

Sara, Spain

2018-10-02 21:23:40 UTC

I think that language awareness involves social and cultural traditions related to the environment where the language has evolved and

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2018-10-03 06:28:17 UTC

Livia, Romania

catincaoanalivia — 2018-10-03 07:10:16 UTC

I am a Romanian language teacher but also an English teacher. In my school is very important to be language-aware because there are students in my classroom who speak other mother-language than Romanian. I must understand that is already difficult for them lo learn in other languages and even harder to learn a new language.

2018-10-03 08:25:00 UTC

Hi, I am Anna, CLIL teacher from Barcelona: my classroom is a challenging work place full of pupils speaking several mother languages, ranging from spanish to urdu, from roma to amazigh. In my opinion I must be a really language aware teacher. I do my best to use English in my classroom and motivate my pupils to do so.

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mikolakati — 2018-10-03 13:44:36 UTC

My name is Katalin, I teach English for primary and secondary school students. I think that language aware teaching benefits my pupils, so I try to know them, their cultural and linguistic background the best I can in order to help them improve their English knowledge.

2018-10-03 14:28:34 UTC

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Rossana Maglia, Italy

Rossana55 — 2018-10-03 14:32:48 UTC

I am a teacher of English in a Liceo in the north of Italy. I think that language awareness is very important both for the teaches of languages and for the other subject teachers, because communication is a key competence. I had hardly understood the real CLIL methodology and their importance until I knew that it was born when in a school with lots of immigrants, they needed a common language to work together.

2018-10-03 15:24:44 UTC

Irene - Guarda, Portugal Like Anis Amouri, I also feel that I’m a language aware teacher, because I speak 4 foreign languages: English, French, Spanish and a little bit of Italian. This way, I feel like I can communicate with people from different countries and cultures. Truly, even if I don’t know many, many languages, I believe that, with one of them, I will always have the chance to communicate with almost everyone. This aloud me, for example, to travel more comfortably when I want to or when I need to. Of course, I believe that the students get many benefits if they have this conscience: that to be familiar with different languages is very important in our days! So, even if I don’t have too many foreign students in my class, I know that they can be foreigners in other countries one of this days: that’s one of the reasons why they should learn different languages! As a mother tongue language and foreign language’s teacher, I often work with students who have many problems when they need to use them: some because they don’t find important to learn them, others because they feel like they don’t have the skills to learn them. This is obviously a wrong idea: everyone should know their mother tongue very well and everyone can learn other languages. I believe that this is the prime idea we need to pass them to improve their skills and to help them to reach the academic and personal success we all desire! Especially since we live in a global world!

2018-10-03 15:25:14 UTC

ANTONIETTA, ITALY

miaaba — 2018-10-03 15:36:41 UTC

I’m a teacher of English as a foreign language in a secondary intermediate school in the South of Italy. I think language awareness is a key competence that allows perception and learning, social interaction and personal success. I’d like to be more effective with my students who do not speak my language.

IRENE - GUARDA, PORTUGAL Like everyone, I believe that learning other languages only brings us benefits. And I also believe that the most important thing is to make our students interiorize this: they must understand the importance of being able to communicate with different people, from different countries, with different cultures. From my own experience, I can tell that this need to understand and communicate in different situations is very important. For instance, I must say that I only studded English for three years, a long, long time ago (from 12 to 15 years old), in my basic studies. Despite this, I’ve always felt the need to know more, to learn more. In this matter, I believe that to subjects that really interests me (music and tv series/movies) were really important to my learning, because they allowed me to improve my knowledge and my skills.I hope that this course will help me to find other strategies to motivate my students for learning several languages (including their own mother tongue, of course), not only at school, but also in their own lives, because I believe that we can learn from almost anything, and we can do it everywhere. And I think that the exchange of experiences and the discussion of ideas and strategies coming out of this course can be really interesting and really important.To conclude, I believe that I’m a “language aware” teacher and I hope that my students can became “language aware” too.

2018-10-03 15:41:13 UTC

Maja Hadzic, Serbia

2018-10-03 15:43:11 UTC

I think language awareness is important from the psychological point of view, because the knowledge teacher has on this topic influences the methods he/she chooses in language teaching. Also, students need to be language aware and have learner autonomy up to some degree, depending on their age and learning conditions. This all refers to learning a foreign language in a systematical way, i.e. in school or by tutoring.

Being language aware is, in my opinion, the first step in embracing cultural diversity of Europe and world. DAVID - Podcetrtek, Slovenia.

2018-10-03 17:10:01 UTC

ROSA , Milano

roslaguzzetta — 2018-10-03 17:18:01 UTC

Language awareness, in my opinion, is an indispensable competence in

Margherita, Italia Language awaeness is a strategic competence, in my opinion. In particolar for the future generation, it’s really important to have students able to work and life with different people, in different country because this is the future.

2018-10-03 17:38:19 UTC

semasaltik78 — 2018-10-03 18:46:55 UTC

Sema, Turkey I am a Secondary School English teacher in Turkey. Although the school is not an International one, I have some students from Syria, Iraq, Sudan, and Russia. As we live in a global world, being an LA teacher is a necessity to teach students to percieve how to acquire some skills such as communication, collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking. Besides, it is also a need to understand the varieties in classes as it will help teachers to encourage their students to be successful learners in life such as sharing some common values or improving positive emotions towards others.

Ancuta Lorina, Romania

2018-10-03 19:37:22 UTC

I think that language awareness is becoming more and more important because, in my case, I have to teach students who come and go from different countries inside Europe, start school in a foreign country and come back to continue in their mother tongue or the other way round. So the students have to communicate, collaborate, think and speak not in one language but in several.

Laura, Italy

luchelau11 — 2018-10-03 20:27:21 UTC

I'm a Primary School Math and English teacher. In my class there are many foreign students. I think CLIL methodology and language games can offer good opportunities to help them to comunicate and improve their competences. Developing language awareness in students is very important.

Cecilia, Italy

2018-10-03 20:39:40 UTC

I'm a Primary School teacher.I I believe that is important always finding new strategies to make functional learning to the rapid societal change. I think that CLIL is one of the ways.

Noe, Catalonia

2018-10-03 20:40:19 UTC

Hello, I teach FOL in English following the CLIL methodology... I get students with mother tongues Spanish and also Catalan.., and idea is to teach them the contents in English. So challenging and idea is to inspire them that learn in not their mother tongue is a BIG asset for them. Let's rock it!

Elen from Greece

2018-10-03 20:54:16 UTC

Language awareness means a lot to a teacher who would like to inspire their students to use the target language in an effective way. Dramatization, games, team work are significant tools in the hands of a teacher.

2018-10-03 21:17:51 UTC

Hi I am Sarita of B.Ed student.

aanchal181001_cce — 2018-10-04 04:15:33 UTC

Language awareness is a possible challenge for good teacher . It's very important to communicate the student with this language.

Fernanda

soares_fernanda — 2018-10-04 13:52:31 UTC

As I am an English Teacher in Portugal - I am therefore teaching a foreign language in my country of origin -, I feel I am a language-aware teacher. Besides, I believe I strong level of sensitivity regarding language learning, language teaching and language use, as I am daily trying to empower my students through the acquisition of a foreign language. Still, I think I need to broaden my horizons, because I usually focus on two languages: Portuguese and English. I have students who speak other languages and I believe they would be grateful and would value if I took advantage of their language and their cultural knowledge.

Alessandra from Italy

2018-10-04 14:40:54 UTC

I'm a Primary school teacher. I think that it's important to improve new strategies and methods such as CLIL to promote communication among pupils.

cristina

2018-10-04 14:46:10 UTC

foreign kids need me to understand them, but they just look at me. they write down everything I say, but that's all they do

LA is important both for teachers and students: it helps us to improve teaching and the students to learn more consciously

2018-10-04 14:54:14 UTC

Mary

Francesca from Italy

2018-10-04 15:04:25 UTC

Nowadays being a “language-aware” teacher is essential. Indeed our schools’learning enironments are intercultural one. Being a teacher means to be able to help out our students to understand us and to sprout international communication skills.

2018-10-04 15:37:28 UTC

I’m a math and science teacher at the primary school.

I feel a language-aware teacher but I honestly don’t apply LA everyday in classroom. This is because of two main reason: 1- logistics issue such as: local school organization and priority didactic goals in favor of the mother tongue language; 2- lacking in experience which don’t let me feel confident. Thus, I need to acquire experience and knowledge in order to get a successful teaching method. Students don’t have language awareness at all, but they have powerful tools since they work in multicultural classrooms everyday (my classrooms include many students which speaks two languages and come from all over the world: South America, Africa, Southern Asia and many European Countries). For this reason they should aware about the importance of owing a solid awareness. I think they can reach these goals only if they are addressed and followed by the teacher in a formative path in which they can share their different languages and cultural knowledge. They only need to be pushed in the right direction by using the right method.

Dino

Isabel, Portugal

2018-10-04 17:29:19 UTC

We can sound much more natural by learning and using chunks of language

annadedonno — 2018-10-04 20:18:19 UTC

teach English and I like to use CLIL methodology because I think it's a way to enlarge our thinking and to be

Alperen, Student of ELT in Turkey

2018-10-04 21:05:46 UTC

LA, to me is a key concept in language teaching since when starting a language learning period, every student wants to know why s/he is undergoing this process. Being able to explain why it is neccessary to learn a new language to your pupils and also spotting the similarities and diffirences of languages together with your students would definetely prove positive for their motivation which is , in my opinion, the machine of the learning process.

Stefano, Australia

2018-10-04 21:48:58 UTC

LA help teachers make consciuos decisions on pedagogical approaches: knowing how languages are perceived and used in classrooms by students can greatly improve language use by the teacher and goal setting for students.

Vladimiro, Italia

2018-10-05 09:52:10 UTC

I consider that  it is essential for a teacher to be able to develop these skills because the language awareness should belong to any teacher

2018-10-05 09:58:15 UTC

I’m Alessandra and I teach History of Art in the Italian secondary school. I believe in the importance of the opportunity to improve the teaching method by using different languages, expecially in the technical and disciplinary vocabulary, to promote skills and proficiency. I do not feel well prepared and my pourpose is to improve my skills and my teaching methods.

Ersin GENÇOĞLU / TURKEY

gencoglueylul — 2018-10-05 10:53:22 UTC

I'm a teacher ,I teach Math in a secondary school.I think ,it ie very useful to Know the value of the language awareness tha is fundamental way to communicate with foreign students.I'd like improving my skills and to make students aware the importance of communicating through language.
Personally, I think that becoming aware of language leads to a better teaching-learning process, by taking as a reference the aptitudes of students and being able to use language to communicate effectively with them.

laura brazzabeni - italy

laura_brazzabeni1 — 2018-10-05 14:09:15 UTC

Language awareness should belong to any teacher. foreign Language Teachers are more involved in this anyway.

Chiara, Italy

2018-10-05 14:41:05 UTC

I'm a Primary school teacher. In my class there are many children from different countries like Bangladesh, Ghana, Serbia, Albania.. So I think that it's very important as teacher, to improve new strategies and methodologies to include everyone. L A can help teachers to bring out the students's skills.

İnci

2018-10-05 14:43:51 UTC

Language awareness is the key of success, knowing the differencess and accepting them is all we need then comes all those methods.

Trini from Spain

2018-10-05 21:50:49 UTC

I'm a geography and history teacher in a Secondary School. I think that LA is a great oportunity to communicate ourselves around the world. When I was a child I studied in catalan all the subjects in Primary and Secondary School, and I would like that my students could speak fluently English too. This course is a chance for me to improve teaching strategies that help me to teach my subject.

Maria D., Italy

2018-10-06 09:57:43 UTC

I’m a teacher of technology in a secondary school. I think Language awareness is important to improve critical thinking, communication and interaction with students.

2018-10-06 13:47:51 UTC

I am Nina, a teacher of Swedish in a secondary school in Finland. I am studying to teach Finnish as a second language and that is why I am interested in language awareness.

MRC - Italy

2018-10-06 14:02:27 UTC

Hi, I am a high school teacher, I teach Physics. In my subject many teaching materials are in other languages, especially in English, which is the official language of the scientific community. Having good skills in languages makes it possible to provide students with a greater number of good quality resources.

Maiken, Germany

2018-10-06 14:44:04 UTC

I'm teaching English and Spanish as a foreign language and History both in German and English (CLIL), so I need to use different languages in my teaching. I think that LA is very important, not only in language teaching, but also with technical terms in every subject. In addition I know that many of my pupils use yet another language at home with their families, very often these are languages that I don't speak, so I'm especially interested in how to use the pupils' knowledge of a different language to their advantage if I don't speak the language.

Violeta Korkucyte- the UK, London

violeta7519 — 2018-10-06 15:51:54 UTC

I am a language-aware teacher. I know what different languages my pupils can speak and/or understand. It helps me to plan effective lessons and cater for all my pupils' needs, involving them in accessing the curriculum , and developing their communication and interaction.

A language-aware teacher

anna_carolina_loddo — 2018-10-06 16:37:18 UTC

Miriam, Italy

miriamscafatihpg23 — 2018-10-06 20:17:48 UTC

I am a primary teacher. My school is in hospital. In my classroom converge pupils from different countries. Language awareness is important to comunicate.

Kristina, Croatia

jakic_kristina — 2018-10-06 20:58:22 UTC

I'm a primary school teacher. I think it's very importanat for teachers to educate themselves all their life. I think I'm a language-aware teacher but I want to learn more about language awareness.

SP_RUGGERI - Italy

referenteclilsiciliani — 2018-10-07 05:13:55 UTC

Do you feel like a language-aware teacher? Why do you think it is important to be a ¨language-aware¨ teacher
I'm teach Maths and Physics in a Italian high school. I'm CLIL teacher of Physics in English. As CLIL teacher I'm becoming more Language awareness, because in my classes there are not only some students from other countries, but also Italian students use a informal language that sometimes has many interpretations, that is not unambiguous.

Cinzia, Italy

2018-10-07 14:54:42 UTC

Language does not simply consist of vocabulary and grammar. There is much more in language
that makes it work. It has functions and involves nuances when people use it for
communication. Teachers and
students who learn foreign language should be aware of these factors in order to be able to
understand how the native speakers use their language and what they mean.
Teachers have to provide students with experience how to use
language in expressing their opinion, sharing ideas, investigating a variety of interpretation‘s as
well as thinking critically.

cinzia, Italy

2018-10-07 15:02:11 UTC

Language does not simply consist of vocabulary and grammar. There is much more in language
that makes it work. It has functions and involves nuances when people use it for
communication.
Teachers have to provide students with experience how to use
language in expressing their opinion, sharing ideas, investigating a variety of interpretation‘s as
well as thinking critically.

Dimitra, Greece

2018-10-07 16:20:32 UTC

I am a promary school teacher of English as a foreign language. I know some things about what language is, how it is learned and how it should be taught, but I would like to reflect more on the subject and become a more effective language teacher.

Christos, Greece

christos_chachoudis — 2018-10-07 18:32:06 UTC

Language is far more words and grammar, is a way of thinking, acting, living,learning and more. In order to communycate with our student we have to be aware of their culture.

Elisa C., Italy

2018-10-07 19:22:10 UTC

I'm a Primary school teacher for special needs students so I sometimes teach Italian as L2 language. It' very important to be a language-aware teacher because of multicultural classrooms. Foreign students speaking different languages learn other cultures and traditions.

Nicoletta Italy

nicolettaloretoni1 — 2018-10-08 06:45:39 UTC

I'm a secondary school English teacher that hopes to be language -aware.
I'm very sensitive to multicultural classes and to all kinds of needs students deserve but I also think that it's essential never stop learning to become an even more effective language teacher

Dilek Y, Turkey

2018-10-08 15:53:06 UTC

I am a language teacher in a vocational high school. I know language is very impotrtant, to speak,to understand others, to express yourself in your own language and different languages.I think everybody should learn a foreign language.In our country there is a saying, one language one person,two languages two people.

Cinzia, Italy

2018-10-08 16:33:49 UTC

Hello, I'm a Primary school teacher. I think it's very important to be a language aware teacher because my students are multicultural.

Valentina, Italy

ditranivale — 2018-10-08 16:44:54 UTC

I think that it’s very important to be a language aware teacher because it permits to underline the students’ abilities and to bring out their own skills. In this way, the lesson becomes a daily opportunity for everyone.

Iulia, Romania

julix_2007 — 2018-10-08 18:00:03 UTC

I teach French and English as foreing languages in a secondary school. I think LA is important to improve communication and interaction with students, also critical thinking

Daniela, Italy

dnldirosa — 2018-10-08 18:36:13 UTC

I am an English teacher in a upper secondary school in Vittoria, Sicily. Since in my classes there are multicultural students, my main goal is stimulating them to develop an ability to think critically about language and to create an inspirational environment in which they are encouraged to realise that learning is a process related to oneself. In other words, my ambitions involve stimulating metacognition of my pupils.

Carmen, Romania

2018-10-08 19:19:19 UTC

good, I'm a math teacher. It is very important to know other foreign languages, for documentation, for communication

José Carvalho, Guarda, Portugal

joseantoniocarvalho — 2018-10-08 20:58:15 UTC

For me, the concern with language skills is something recent. During about 20 years of teaching, I have never attached much importance to mastery of two languages in the classroom. Recently, I have awakened to the need to prepare students for the challenges of the 21st century and, without a doubt, communing skills in two languages will be present. Currently, I try to develop my personal skills in the English language in order to provide in the classroom the permanent contact with the teaching in this language. I am also happy to bring my institution to recognize the need for a bilingual education.

Carla, Portugal

2018-10-08 21:37:23 UTC

For the first time in my life I have been challenged as the teacher oficial a multicultural classroom and that has made me more aware oficial the importance of language diversity in the classroom.
Bearing in mind this idea I am also trying to start a CLIL project in my school.

Patrizia Italy

2018-10-09 02:14:21 UTC

Being a teacher of mathematics and physics I consider myself less involved than other colleagues in this problem, but I think that the attention to language awareness is essential today because we live in a multiethnic society. Daily, unfortunately, I do not apply the LA, because the poor exercise does not make me feel safe. I would like to improve my skills to make my students understand the importance of languages.

I am Shafak Yusifova from Azerbaijan.I am an English teacher at secondary school.To be a language teacher is more interesting. Because you must teach the language ,the literature, the art the culture of the people or of the country which you teach its language.

yusi_5 — 2018-10-09 02:59:19 UTC

Güneş

2018-10-09 05:12:33 UTC

I am teaching English as a second language so I have to be aware of the importance of language. It is vital for communication & interaction with students.

Brigita, SloveniaI am a teacher for German and English at the primary school. I've been teaching these two languages for twenty years and I am happy to see my changes and improvements in the language awareness. Because teaching is not the only way of getting around with languages, I know I need some more experiences and knowledge about languages. This is why I am very pleased to be part of this mooc.

2018-10-09 06:55:33 UTC

MULTILANGUAGES CLASSROOM

2018-10-09 10:11:37 UTC

I have always been interested in other cultures and languages. In my classroom I have biligual students whose families come from different countries and I love to know more about their cultures.

I try to link every activity to language use and awareness, even for maths, science and art. I started my CLIL projects few years ago to make my students aware that they can use English or any other language even for other subjects and that different languages mirror different cultures, ways of thinking, ways of living and so on. Open our students to everything that is other from ourselves, from our habits and even language use means leading them to be more open minded and even self confident.

Gülseren Keserci

2018-10-09 11:31:19 UTC

2018-10-09 11:47:11 UTC

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Odete Teixeira (Arouca, Portugal)

odete_teixeira — 2018-10-09 13:44:00 UTC

In the last years Portugal has received many immigrants from China, Brazil, Africa and East Countries looking for work and a better life. Their children were integrated in our classrooms. For years, I have taught them Portuguese, their second language. Now I am teaching English, their third language! Buáááááá! They have many difficulties and my experience says that they are never brilliant students. I confess that my beliefs about language learning might be a major obstacle than their mother tongue! Linguistic diversity seems to be an obstacle to my work because I think they don’t understand the same I am telling the whole class and the books and worksheets I prepare are hard work for them. They represent “extra-work”! School language is different from the language spoken in the home and their parents have difficulties in helping them doing homework, for example. We have also children of Portuguese emigrants born in Germany, France, Switzerland who came back to Portugal after 4 or 5 years of school in those countries. They have grown up bilinguals and they mix a lot of things. I really hope this course helps me thinking differently because I still think bilingualism delays language acquisition in children. Help me becoming a “language-aware-teacher”! I hope that “Language Diversity in your classroom” in Teacher’s Academy raises an awareness about the importance of linguistic diversity in the classroom, empowers my teaching with innovative methodologies in multilingualism and makes me discover tools and resources that I will be able to implement.

Rosaria, Italy

2018-10-09 15:49:08 UTC

I'm a teacher in a primary school and language is very important to promote inclusion and to share habits, in a world where every day we meet people from other countries

Iro , Germany

2018-10-09 16:39:24 UTC

I am a german teacher in a bilingual school in Germany so every day i get to work with pupils with at least two mother tongues. I would really like to learn more about the subject and i would love to read about the thoughts of my colleagues from all around the world.

Only language?

2018-10-09 18:20:10 UTC

Well,

Only language?

vrinceanu09 — 2018-10-09 18:24:11 UTC

Tachers have to make their students understand that language does not only involve correct production but elicits the learner’s ability to explain how particular forms function.

Language awarness

2018-10-09 18:34:15 UTC

Words have the power to educate and enlarge human horizon.

Oana

2018-10-09 19:59:41 UTC

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

Mustafa BOZOĞLAN Mersin Turkey

mdbozoglan — 2018-10-09 20:34:37 UTC

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

Maria, Vinchiaturo (CB), Italy

mariaminicucci — 2018-10-10 08:12:42 UTC

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

Anna, Caserta, Italy

2018-10-10 15:11:40 UTC

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

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

Daniela, Monopoli (BA), Italy

2018-10-10 17:02:02 UTC

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

Sandra MACABRE

2018-10-10 17:11:39 UTC

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

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

2018-10-10 20:17:07 UTC

Eleonora, Estonia

eleonora_volovik — 2018-10-10 20:32:54 UTC

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

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

sevgiylebebek — 2018-10-10 21:41:48 UTC

Christine, Germany

2018-10-11 12:10:20 UTC

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

Marianna, Italy

2018-10-11 12:10:34 UTC

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

Zeynep Taş Yardımcı, Turkey

zeyneptas0 — 2018-10-11 15:17:50 UTC

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

Brigitta, Romani

2018-10-11 17:15:07 UTC

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

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

2018-10-11 17:46:55 UTC

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

2018-10-12 08:36:29 UTC

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

2018-10-13 05:30:44 UTC

Maiia, Ukraine

2018-10-13 12:29:24 UTC

Maribel

2018-10-13 19:05:46 UTC

I am a teacher and I think it is very interestin

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2018-10-13 20:45:47 UTC

Maribel, Spain

2018-10-13 20:45:49 UTC

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2018-10-14 09:25:37 UTC

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2018-10-14 09:29:03 UTC

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2018-10-14 09:29:05 UTC

Importance of language awareness.

2018-10-14 09:29:06 UTC

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

Importance of language awareness importance

2018-10-14 09:34:13 UTC

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

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konicakumar97 — 2018-10-14 14:42:58 UTC

Konica ,India

konicakumar97 — 2018-10-14 14:44:49 UTC

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

angela de vito

2018-10-15 10:45:58 UTC

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

2018-10-15 11:30:24 UTC

Vanessa, Italy

Ester Italy

estergas89 — 2018-10-15 14:32:54 UTC

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

2018-10-16 15:17:03 UTC

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

Liliya / UK

Liliya_B — 2018-10-16 16:40:39 UTC

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

José María, Spain

2018-10-16 17:37:33 UTC

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

Brigida, Italy

2018-10-16 17:55:21 UTC

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

2018-10-16 20:22:01 UTC

I’m a Primary school teacher in Italy.

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

cinzia_cemile — 2018-10-16 22:45:30 UTC

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

Eleni Tychola

2018-10-17 06:38:43 UTC

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

Natalia, Italy

2018-10-17 11:30:13 UTC

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

Natalia Ialy

2018-10-17 11:37:12 UTC

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

Rachna, India

2018-10-17 14:06:12 UTC

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

Francesca Barile

francesca_barile50 — 2018-10-17 15:18:19 UTC

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

Konstantina,

konstantinakokmotou — 2018-10-17 16:32:15 UTC

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

Nicoleta,Romania

2018-10-17 19:00:48 UTC

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

2018-10-18 08:01:22 UTC

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

Pablo, Spain

2018-10-18 08:01:27 UTC

Marta Tarantino

martatarantino — 2018-10-18 10:33:34 UTC

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

Luz, USA

2018-10-19 01:10:29 UTC

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

Angelamaria Galderisi, Italy

2018-10-19 10:10:34 UTC

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

Manuela Vattimo, Italy

2018-10-19 14:22:58 UTC

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

Natalie, Malta

natcal126 — 2018-10-19 14:39:14 UTC

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

Aurelia, Romania

2018-10-19 17:25:17 UTC

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

Giac,Italy

tecnologiasuardo — 2018-10-20 05:34:28 UTC

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

2018-10-20 13:13:24 UTC

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2018-10-20 13:17:49 UTC

Erica, Italy

2018-10-20 16:06:26 UTC

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

Pedro, Spain

2018-10-20 17:59:12 UTC

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

Rania, Greece

ranialampou — 2018-10-21 15:26:27 UTC

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

rachna pahal,ind

2018-10-21 16:45:26 UTC

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

Elena

2018-10-21 17:18:17 UTC

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

Claudya, Romania

2018-10-22 17:11:50 UTC

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

2018-10-22 20:25:19 UTC

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

Language awareness

2018-10-23 11:05:47 UTC

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

Michela, Italy

2018-10-23 13:18:29 UTC

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

FEDERICA P. ,ITALY

2018-10-23 13:49:07 UTC

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

2018-10-23 14:38:56 UTC

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

Iriny, Ukraine

iryna_danyliuk — 2018-10-23 20:08:52 UTC

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

Hi it's me Navkir

2018-10-24 03:44:22 UTC

The given module is veryhelpf

Candida Peters,

2018-10-24 06:44:41 UTC

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

Selvaggia

2018-10-24 07:48:40 UTC

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

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

Hi, sonali juneja

2018-10-24 13:04:04 UTC

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

Ek

2018-10-24 14:36:59 UTC

This is very helpful as today world is multilingual.

DHAIRYA BAJA

2018-10-24 14:44:56 UTC

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

MANSI UPPAL

2018-10-24 15:11:06 UTC

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

MONINDER KAUR

2018-10-24 16:18:40 UTC

Amita Mahendroo

amita_mahendroo — 2018-10-24 16:35:31 UTC

Yes , language

Amita Mahendroo

amita_mahendroo — 2018-10-24 16:53:17 UTC

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

Kritika kanwar

2018-10-24 17:23:22 UTC

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

Doina

doinacta — 2018-10-24 17:54:35 UTC

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

Language aware teachers

2018-10-24 18:57:11 UTC

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

Jeane de Fatima, Rio de Janeiro - Brazil

2018-10-25 19:53:00 UTC

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

Ummeqoulla IND

2018-10-29 05:15:31 UTC

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

Tamar, Georgia

2018-10-29 13:13:23 UTC

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

Marina A., Croatia

marina_antolkovic — 2018-10-29 13:17:03 UTC

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

2018-10-29 13:34:04 UTC

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

Angela Dimitriu

grupa_meteo2017 — 2018-10-29 17:55:03 UTC

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

2018-10-29 22:20:49 UTC

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

angela_zampella — 2018-10-30 12:06:14 UTC

Language awareness is very important so yo can undersndd

Jolana, the Czech Republ

2018-10-30 12:18:07 UTC

To answer the question: Yes, I do.

Silvana Albani

silvyalba57 — 2018-10-30 17:31:32 UTC

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

Azra S., Bosnia and Herzegovina

2018-11-13 13:52:11 UTC

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

Gülay, Turkey

PUFUM — 2018-11-27 16:46:41 UTC

My answer is Yes, I do :)

Adela Gabriela Muresan

muresan_gabriela_adela — 2018-12-05 17:57:33 UTC

yes, a lot.

Nurten KARAKIŞ

mertberil55 — 2018-12-26 19:59:31 UTC

I THİNK LANGUAGE

Vusala Mehtiyeva, Azerbaijan

lilyflowery2011 — 2019-03-26 20:15:38 UTC

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

Suzzane, Jordan

2019-04-12 22:17:22 UTC

For sure language awareness counts

lolloo

2019-12-16 14:09:45 UTC

LSG

2020-04-29 13:53:00 UTC

To communicate

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

2020-11-19 22:38:07 UTC

Eleonora, Estonia

2021-10-05 09:30:19 UTC

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