The importance of being language-aware by EUN Partnership aisbl

2021-09-20 10:21:21 UTC

It’s important to be aware of the language and the needs of students so that we can decide on the language level and make students aware of the target.

Züleyha DEĞERLİ, Turkey

zuleyha2303 — 2021-09-20 10:21:58 UTC

Yes, I feel like a language-aware teacher. The thing I am trying to teach is not a lesson but a language with its whole environment. The phrases, the mimics, the students' background knowledge, the similarities and differences between the mother tongue and the target language are all important for language awareness.

I think I am on the road to be a language-aware teacher because I need enough time to know better how my students are, the reasons by which they want to learn English. Apart from that, I want to deepen in the details of teaching English, how students connect to this foreign language, the benefits to teach it since they are kids, the great opportunity to have a linguistic immersion not only for students but also for teachers who want to keep a high level of English...

2021-09-20 10:28:02 UTC

The important of language is understanding the meaning and communicate with one another

2021-09-20 10:29:57 UTC

2021-09-20 10:31:16 UTC

I consider myself a language-aware teacher. However, I do not think that this feeling is enough because language is unpredictable and that makes new situations with different challenges appear every day. In this sense, I would point out the diversity of codes existing within the same country, as is the case of Spain with varieties in the expression in Spanish.

Silvia, Romania

munteanusilvia2000 — 2021-09-20 10:35:16 UTC

I consider myself a language-aware teacher. I am conscious about the cultural specific elements, I love comparing proverbs from different languages, because they reflect the mentality of a certain country and help us understand them better. I am a fan of international projects, which enable me to be a more language-aware person and teacher.

I am a language-aware teacher as I teach different nationalities and I make sure to include their mother tongue to compara and contrast with the target language.

sylviaherbert10 — 2021-09-20 10:45:09 UTC

2021-09-20 10:52:51 UTC

I am a language-aware teacher, as I believe that the mother tongue of each of the pupils involved in my lesssons can contribute to a better intercultural communication between learners, reduce stereotypes and promote positive attitudes towards "the other". Also, students feel more confident and more motivated to participate in classes when they are given the opportunity to share certain facts or expressions from their culture or language.

Language Awareness

caterinaprencipe — 2021-09-20 11:03:56 UTC

I think it’s important for teachers to be language aware, not just for ourselves, but it also has a great impact on our students. Students who are more language aware, and who are more able to
use language appropriately, are more able to communicate effectively. In my opinion language awareness is, kind of, sensitivity to the students’ needs, and
ability to accommodate these needs in our teaching and planning.
If we don’t pay attention to their needs, they may be demotivated, and therefore lose interest in the subject.

2021-09-20 11:30:28 UTC

I guess I am aware of the existance of many languages in my classroom (teaching at a university) but I still notice sometimes that I am not paying equally attention to all heritage languages in the classroom. Sometimes I focus more on the languages I know a little (english, french, russian and polish) or the students tell me about and I tend to forget a little about other languages they might know or about languages from students who are not talking about their heritage language so much in class. I am trying to remind myself everytime in class which languages are present and what I could use for examples, comparisons, rituals etc. but I could still be better with that.

Language-aware

2021-09-20 11:31:42 UTC

I consider myself a language-aware teacher but the diversity of nationalities of our students are new challenges that makes language and forms of communication unpredictable.

2021-09-20 11:33:14 UTC

Sometimes I'm language-aware, sometimes not. Beside the importance of linguistics and language knowledge in a multicultural classroom, I love the known and unknown concepts of each language that makes language and its diversity so extraordinary- I love to get to know different multicultural concepts in each of my lessons that form ideas from my students and give me a base to work with. It creates a better understanding of culture diversity.

Ivana M., Croatia

2021-09-20 11:55:13 UTC

I am trying to be a language-aware teacher and I think being such a teacher requires more work and engagement. Luckily, it pays off well because students gain more knowledge and motivation during such lessons. The focus is not on one language with a clear cut between that language and the others, and it can never be so. I always look for cultural relations between languages and think students find such lessons the most interesting.

jessegarcal — 2021-09-20 12:21:30 UTC

Is very important to be a language-aware teacher, because it is necessary to integrate all students and help them improve their needs

Monica Arotaritei

arotariteimonica — 2021-09-20 12:50:14 UTC

It is very important to be aware of the languages around you as they are a part of your heritage, your identity and also your future.

Language Awarenes

2021-09-20 13:33:47 UTC

I think that I'm language -aware teacher because when I Have in my class children that their L1 is different from the majority L1 I encoyrage them to use it and give them the chanceti "teach" it to the children of the majority

Mersin, Yenişehir Turkey Gülay ERGİN

gulayeba — 2021-09-20 13:36:54 UTC

I try to be a language -aware teacher as I am a second language teacher and I teach English as a foreing lamguage.I think language is the key of communication and I have lots of things to learn from my European colleagues. I want to do my besst to be in the world of lifelong learning. I hope this course will help me on my way.

Aphrodite, Greece

2021-09-20 13:56:04 UTC

I am not quite sure whether I am a language-aware teacher or not. I guess I try to be in the sense that I am aware of the different native languages of my students and I encourage them to compare vocabulary or grammar structures in English with their native language. I always find it interesting when students share cultural elements of their different countries, too. I am looking to learn about ways to embrace language diversity in my classroom in practice.

nicomd — 2021-09-20 14:26:47 UTC

Cinzia F. , Italy
I think I need to reflect more on the concept of language awareness, but I think that when working in classes with diverse languages the knowledge of the common underlying proficiency can help teachers communicating more effectively with students who do not speak the main language of instruction and comparing different structures and cultures can be a way of motivating language learning among students. On this point I need to reflect and learn more, I hope to reach this aim through this course

Marina B., Croatia

2021-09-20 14:39:49 UTC

Being English and Italian teacher, I really try to be language -aware.. even though I think there is always space for improvement. I do have students with different cultural backgrounds and learning about different cultures and being exposed to different languages from first hand is often quite rewarding. My students think it's interesting sometimes, but I am not sure they really appreciate the importance of language-awareness. I hope that this course will help me change that.

María José, Spain

mariajosefa_garcia5 — 2021-09-20 16:04:15 UTC

I´m not really sure I´m a language-aware teacher, and that is why I attended this course. Sometimes, children arrive to my school and to my class, with total ignorance of the reference language and I would like to be able to serve them better than I do, to have the resources to be able to do so.

Daniela Russo, Italy

2021-09-20 16:31:42 UTC

I think it is essential to speak in the language of my students. So we can communicate easily and understand each other.

Catherine Creusefond, France

catherinecreusefond2 — 2021-09-20 16:37:38 UTC

I 'm trying my best to be a language aware teacher, mostly with the pupils who has another mother tongue than French. With the oldest too, e.g comparing words in different languages. We've developed this activity by organising the 'language month ' last year : parents and relatives came to our school to present other languages than french and english. Just a first step, I think we can do far more...

Language-aware teacher

AlexandraG23 — 2021-09-20 16:38:47 UTC

I consider myself a language-aware teacher, as I try to incorporate intercultural activities in my classes.

I think language awareness can be achieved only by working with different languages within our ordinary language lesson. Students need to hear what other languages sound like, and if they can hear it from ther fellow students it will be even more effective. This year I teach english in Italy in a class where there are Italian, Romenian, Japanese and Moroccan students. Only this morning every student introduced themselves to the class in their own language and the others were fascinated; somehow they (and me too) realized that beyond that language there is a different Country, a different culture, a different world. And how easy it is, even for me, a teacher, to take for granted that we all share the same experience of the same thing! I hope this course will teach me to be able to see the world with Japanese/Romenian/Moroccan eyes when I speak with a Japanese(Romenian/Moroccan student.

2021-09-20 16:58:07 UTC

Christos T., Greece

christsapan — 2021-09-20 17:46:40 UTC

I am not really sure whether I am a language-aware teacher or not. Nevertheless, I believe that the mother tongue of all students involved in my lesson can reduce stereotypes and also contribute to better intercultural communication between learners.

Beatriz Sousa, Portugal

2021-09-20 18:42:40 UTC

I'm teaching English to young Portuguese natives so I think I'm language-aware. However, that is one of the reason why I took this course: I want to know if I am in fact language aware and what I can do to improve

Mihaela Epure

2021-09-20 19:01:54 UTC

Language awareness is very important when teaching a non-native language, otherwise the teacher ends up talking to the walls. I teach EFL to Romanian students, and I try to pay attention to cultural differences, to linguistic clichés, to "false friends", etc. We have the rule "only English" in class, and even if sometimes it is challenging, we try hard to respect it. When being language-aware, one can anticipate possible ethnic linguistic mistakes (for example, English say 'I am 10 years old', but Romanians have the tendency to say 'I have 10 years', as this is the native collocation). When teaching to a multicultural group, things get more complicated. This year, I took Romanian classes for Asian migrants (especially Middle Easterners) and I must say it is quite an experience! I appeal to English as a common communication channel, but there are students who know only their native dialect. What can I say? We play a lot of mime and use lots of image cards! :)

Brigitta Heidelbacher, Romania

2021-09-20 19:05:40 UTC

Language awareness is very important. The teachers must be conscious about the different languages in the classroom and try to understand the challenges and opportunities that the variety of languages and the cultural diversity can bring to the classroom. Social interaction and communicating are very essential in learning and teaching.

Paula, Portugal

mpaulacosme — 2021-09-20 19:09:47 UTC

I thought I was a language-aware teacher, but now I think I need to improve some aspects. The language commonly used in social interaction versus formal language makes the difference when you teach, for instance, foreign students. We need to be awareness of the difference between cultures, if we want to achieve a intercultural communication and language can be the key.

Language Awareness

lana_matijakovic — 2021-09-20 19:33:25 UTC

I believe I have some knowledge about language awareness since I have a PhD in cognitive linguistics. I always try to show my pupils how similar languages are (especially in some words), but also to emphasise the difference between them. What I also try to teach them is how important it is to learn foreign languages because that is the best way to learn about the similaritites and differences in cultures.

Susana Mendes, Portugal

2021-09-20 19:57:27 UTC

I think I am a language-aware teacher and the importance and to adapt strategies using multiple means of involvement, communication and expression in accordance with the profile of the students. Aware of this need, at the beginning of the year, we collect information from parents and students to provide a framework for understanding the language (portuguese). One of the aspects of linguistic awareness that I still need to develop is related to the attention we give to students whose mother tongue is different from the one in the country of schooling. Even students from Brazil (who speak portuguese) but who present differences such as pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar deserve a closer look. These often present difficulties in understanding and expressing them using the same language, both in the language commonly used in social interaction and in the informal communication happening on the playground.

Ali ÇETİN, Turkey

2021-09-20 20:56:08 UTC

I think I am a language awareness conscious teacher. Because I work as an English Teacher in a city on the border with Iran in the easternmost part of Turkey, a country with different ethnicities. In the past years, I have had the opportunity to work with students who do not speak my native language, Turkish, and teach them English. In this process, we focused on the teaching of the language through acquisition and took part in the common denominator of the iceberg mentioned in the previous section. We didn't have to dec the same language to communicate with them, there was an emotional connection between us.

Kimie, Portugal

2021-09-20 21:08:49 UTC

I guess I have some language awareness as both my parents are foreigners from continents apart and as a child I used to play and communicate with children with different nationalities from me. As a student and an athlete I start realising the world has diversity beyond my lifetime. Everyday schools are becoming more diverse in culture and nationalities, therefore I feel the need to keep up to perform better.

Eman Bani Salman

2021-09-20 21:27:06 UTC

It’s important to be aware of the language
needs of students that we can decide It’s important to be aware of the language
decide on the language level and make students aware of the target.on the language level and make students aware of the target.

Mohamed OMRI,Tunisia

omrimed20 — 2021-09-20 21:47:58 UTC

I think that im a language aware teacher because i teach french language for arabic native students. We used english language in etwinning project with our foreign partners.I want to evaluate and improve my experience.

Sharon, Australia

2021-09-20 23:29:32 UTC

Being language aware is essential for an educator today - we must realise and acknowledge that every subject has its 'own language' (mathematical language, scientific language etc.) and we must be equipped with the knowledge and skills to teach this particular language

Emilia Frinculeasa, Romania

2021-09-21 02:07:58 UTC

I feel like a language-aware teacher. This week, for example, I am organising events to celebrate multilingvism and cultural diversity with my students. We are preparing for the European Day of Languages 2021 and the topic chosen for this year's edition is the role played by the Romance languages- French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish- the main languages descended from Latin (the language of Rome and the Roman Empire) in promoting cultural awareness and expression. Yesterday we identified words and phrases in French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese, learned through famous song lyrics.
However, I am willing to learn more and more about language awareness and I can't wait for more insightful resources and information!

Rocío, Spain

rguezrociororg — 2021-09-21 07:57:22 UTC

I consider myself to be language aware, where I live we speak a different language too and at school English and French are taught too, however, I do feel I need more strategies to cope with students who are brought into the classroom with no knowledge of the languages in use, there is where I feel something else needs to be done to include them and reach to them in a more welcoming environment.

Evi Greece

2021-09-21 09:14:20 UTC

As I am not a teacher yet, I can speak for my attentions. So, I feel like I am a Language aware person as I would like to find ways to make a common path-or as Cummins says: common underlying proficiency- into my class. The reason is that I would like to inqury all my students (no matter which is their language) to the knowledge and social life. To do this I believe that I have to practice and to have a deep knowledge of language.

Merve Berrak,Turkey

2021-09-21 13:07:50 UTC

I consider myself as a language-aware teacher. I think both students and teachers can and should develop language awareness. Language awareness also includes all that goes along with being able to use a language proficiently, including knowing the sociocultural norms of the language, the different registers of the language, and how the context of some utterances can change their meaning.

Izaskun, Basque Country

2021-09-21 13:51:58 UTC

I consider my self a language aware teacher. I think the most important thing is the human capacity of communication. Communicative skills are over any language in the world, so being language-aware means for me being aware of communication. Once communication skills are scaffolded in an emotional level, language proficiency can be taught satisfactorily.

Visnja, Croatia

2021-09-21 14:01:18 UTC

I consider myself aware of language. Even in listening to my students talking in Croatian or writting on it, I try to teach them more about it. Many times I my classroom i put video with english subtitles or english speaking videos so we both learn like that.

Ayat Rabee

2021-09-21 14:50:36 UTC

Teaching and learning through an additional language encourages understanding between cultures, improves students’ cognitive ability and prepares them for life beyond school.

If students’ language is sufficiently well developed and supported by the teacher, learning through an additional language can be cognitively stimulating. In contrast to many traditional language lessons, students are learning meaningful content through the language rather than simply learning the language itself. The language becomes a tool for critical thinking and communication and allows students access to authentic and relevant subject content and terminology.

Eleni, Greece Ι am trying to be a language aware teacher, taking always into account the different language backrounds of my students. I am trying to instill the love of the target language by showing them at the same time that each and every language has its own beauty and musicality and that through those differencies languages connect with each other in one single ground: their own speciality and unique identity

2021-09-21 15:24:12 UTC

Célia Branco, Language awareness

2021-09-21 16:28:20 UTC

I believe I am a very language-aware teacher. Language and communication are clearly closely related. In an educational framework if a teacher is unable to speak the same language as the students, nothing can be shared, meaning that thoughts, data …. cannot be assigned. Being conscious of the forms and functions of language is crucial; plus, we need to consider the five language domains (reading, writing, listening, speaking and comprehension) and integrate them in our teaching strategies. The understanding and confidence that we are using the “right” words (having in mind the learners’ lingo….) must always be pondered.

Antonella Z.

antomakena — 2021-09-21 17:05:28 UTC

I think my previous studies of foreign languages are very important for my work with the children. Children are very interested in language, sounds, music and when I suggest something in English, German, Swahili or French they are very happy. when my arab origin children just arrived listen to me greeting or saying thanks in their own language...they are very very happy...the problem is...how to learn all this linguistic "cargo"?

voicucorinavalentina — 2021-09-21 17:34:19 UTC

Voicu Corina Valentina/Romania
I believe a foreign language is very important because we must learn more about our discipline to be better teachers and comunicate with others.

dirigente240 — 2021-09-21 17:36:39 UTC

I always try to be aware of the impprtance of the different languages, as they are part of the the culture and identity.

Angelika, Poland

2021-09-21 18:02:33 UTC

I feel like a language-aware teacher. I teach English in Poland and speak another language at home :) So, every day I use three different languages. My own multilingual experince has helped me to understand and support my students. I agree with the speakers who have mentioned that cultural background is crucial for languages. Language diversity is a part of our contemporary world. Choosing books for my high school students I want to see and "read" the world with them. We read the same text in English, but our perceptions are so diverse which leads to "cultural exchange" as I call it. I also love asking my students to compare a translation of the text with the original (for example, if a student is from Germany, it's so easy for him/her to read F.Kafka's works in German and introduce "lapses" in the translation, etc :) English is the language of education at our High school and students have to use it to prove their points of view. When they live the class or if we go to the theatre or cafe, we could use different languages to communicate and students are so happy to translate words using their mother tongue to teach groupmates to pronounce something or even sing a song.

Hülya TAŞTAN/KİLİS - TURKEY

2021-09-21 21:31:51 UTC

I am not a language teacher, but we teach foreign students in my class our own language without knowing their language, allowing them to integrate into our education.I feel and see that the surprise they experience when teaching our language to my students is introversion, they don't feel like they belong to the class and environment they are in,all these behaviors dissipate as they start learning and speaking our language, and the sun is reborn.That's why I realize that learning a language is very important.

Ksenija, Croatia

2021-09-21 21:51:01 UTC

I am not sure if I am a language aware teacher. Yes, I always make the linkages and draw students' attention to the interferences and alike, but I have high hopes in this course to improve my skills in this aspect.

Özge, Istanbul-Turkey

ozgekoc824 — 2021-09-22 06:50:47 UTC

As an English language teacher, I feel that I have language awareness because English is taught as a foreign language in my country and the structure of our mother tongue is totally different from English. On the other hand, vocabulary acqusition process may be a bit difficult for my students beacuse we use one word in different contexts with different meanings. So, someone must read or have background knowledge to understand the meaning of the word used in the context. That's why I must pay attention to L1 acqusition process, knowledge ans skills of my students. Moreover, we have some immigrant students whose first languages are different. As a teacher, I am trying to discover the structure and usage points of their L1 when they make errors. I have to be compotent in language awareness, if I am not, it will be difficult for me to detect the strengths and weaknesses of my students. Therefore, I provide info. about the outcomes of my lesson and engage my students with interactive activities, tasks, projects in order to get accustomed them to L2. It is really important for students to see the structure and vocabulary items in communicative places. Also, while completing these tasks, they need to have a goal to interact, and to be able to interact, they need to develop their language skills. All in all, developing language skills depends on language awareness.

Sandrine - France

2021-09-22 07:04:57 UTC

I feel like a language aware teacher because of my background (10+ years in the UK and the US - I have learnt about different languages, accents, culture, humor....). Now I am interested in tools to teach my students to be a "language-aware".

Nada, Croatia

nadatodorovska — 2021-09-22 07:12:38 UTC

I may say I have some language awareness as both my parents are foreigners, so my native language is different from the language I teach. As a child I used to play and communicate with children with different nationalities from me. As a student and an athlete I had the opportunity to travel and listen different people speaking different language. As a mother, I encourage my childred to explore and learn as many languages as they can. Everyday schools are becoming more diverse in culture and nationalities, due to planned or forsed migrations etc., therefore I feel the need to keep up to perform better.

Barbara, Italy

2021-09-22 08:03:21 UTC

In this year being aware of the importance of languages is relevant for teacher and for people too, because we can explain what we want to make and communicate, only through the words and the smiles...

Ida, Croatia

2021-09-22 08:12:21 UTC

I feel like a language-aware teacher. In Croatian and Hungarian there is a saying: the more languages you know, the more you are worth. I am aware of 8 key competencies, two of which are relevant to the language: native (mother tongue) and foreign. I am aware that migrations are becoming more frequent and with them languages also. I am aware that small languages will disappear if we allow it.

When we get a student from another speaking area to our school or my class, I ask myself: How well do I know that language? What do I know about that language and culture? What does it have to do with my language (similarities and differences)? How do they write? How do they read? How to make it easier for these students to learn our language in an easy way? I look for answers to all these questions and embark on an adventure.

Andrijana, Croatia

Shipwreck1 — 2021-09-22 08:36:03 UTC

I definitely feel like a language-aware teacher. I think all the teachers of today should be ''language-aware'' teachers because it is not enough any more for a child/person to speak only one language, i.e. the mother tongue.
Times are changing rapidly and people are digitally connected more than ever. International communication is common in the majority of businesses. So we can say that the English language is another language that a person should definitely learn and speak.
Also, maybe some of our pupils have parents who come from another country and speak another language, too. So it is important that we as teachers nurture that fact and give that pupil a possibility to use another language in the classroom and teach us and the other pupils something new.
Besides their mother tongue, many pupils speak at regional dialects and we should pay attention to that fact, too.
We as teachers shoul definitely nurture language diversity in our classess and use it to broaden the horizons of both - us as teachers and our pupils, too.

Manuel García, Spain

2021-09-22 10:18:26 UTC

I think I can be considered a language aware teacher, as I was raised in the basque country, a region in Spain where both spanish and basque languages are spoken. I have therefore seen teachers and students with different mother tongues interact one with each other, instinctively trying to make themselves understand by the other part.

Nowadays I work as a teacher in another region of Spain, where no second language is spoken. All my students have spanish as their single mother tongue, and we usually do not have a significant number of migrants in our schools. Last year however I had 2 turkish and 1 asian students in the same level who came in the middle of the term, and suddenly I needed to become language aware in a very short gap of time. I remembered my past experience with languages and managed to communicate with them in an improving way (I would like to think I succeeded in teaching them Physics, but they should be the ones judging my job).

I think we may start welcoming more migrant students in the coming years, and that is why I would like to become more language aware.

Linnea, Sweden

2021-09-22 11:32:44 UTC

Having been an IB teacher for the last couple of years, I have been working with bilingual and multilingual students on a daily basis. The common language of the programme is English, which is a foreign language for most of us. Being a non-native speaker myself, I believe I am relatively language aware. We learn new words and ways of expressing with each other, students and teachers alike, along with stories and cultures from different countries. It enriches our classes as well as our lives.

I think I am a language aware teacher. I always try to instil love for the learning of languages to my students and one of the methods I use to do that is teaching language through cultural resources. I use a CLIL methodology, integrating language and contents, which I think is much more inspiring for students.

2021-09-22 11:36:53 UTC

Inés Iglesias, Spain

Carla Dias - Portugal

2021-09-22 14:32:53 UTC

I feel like a language-aware teacher because I try to help my students to overcome the language barrier.

Anagnostou Konstantina

2021-09-22 14:48:58 UTC

I fell that I am a teacher that has language awareness because I believe that languages are linked to each other so they have a lot of common characteristics which teacher can emphasise and show to the students in order to learn different things.

I think I am a language-aware teacher.I try to help my students. For example, last year I had a Chinese student who could not understand Spanish and knew very little English and we had to find the ways to communicate, trying to use as many resources as we could.

2021-09-22 17:21:10 UTC

Oksana Shtykh, Ukraine

oksanastykh — 2021-09-22 20:03:22 UTC

I think both students and teachers can and should develop language awareness. I hope I am a language-aware teacher. I always try to answer students' questions, select and present authentic texts to them. A lot of students have a barrier in learning the language and we should help them to break it.

Language awarness

2021-09-22 20:52:53 UTC

I consider it is of great importance to be language asaré, specially if you are no tan English teacher. Societariamente demands people why can develop in different countries. Education is The key to struggle with barriers

Gabriela Ciolpan

gabrriellaa2x — 2021-09-23 03:57:02 UTC

I can call myself a language-aware teacher, as I have also taught basic Romanian Language to.foreigners( French and Spanish) and I sometimes made use of English in my classes.

Hana Haimour/ Jordan

2021-09-23 05:19:17 UTC

In my opinion, it is very important to learn new languages other than the original language of the teacher and student in order to open the most important channels of communication with new individuals and to form useful professional relationships with them.

Alice - Italy

2021-09-23 07:35:16 UTC

I think I'm quite a language-aware teacher, but I would like to develop this awareness. In my opinion, it is important to be a LA teacher to better communicate with students and facilitate their learning and integration in the classroom. At the same time, however, I would like to learn some simple strategies and methods to put all this into practice more effectively, also taking into account the "common underlying profiency" between the two languages used.

Danijela, Croatia

dmolnarprof — 2021-09-23 07:51:38 UTC

I feel like a language-conscious teacher. I work to make my formal speech understandable to students, and yet mathematically accurate because I teach math. I am aware of sensitivity in language learning and teaching, but also in its use in explaining mathematical concepts. Formal communication and mathematical communication of my students is something we are constantly working on and which is generally doing very poorly for them.

I feel like a language-aware teacher, but would become more LA. Often I need to help my students to overcome the language barrier in multicultural environment and English-speaking school

2021-09-23 09:09:12 UTC

Emiliana, Italy

emiliana_rufo — 2021-09-23 09:28:45 UTC

I try to be a language-aware teacher. I teach English as a foreign language (ESL) and in my classes there are some students who come from other parts of the world. It is important to be conscious of their background and culture and I organize some activities to let students share their traditions and customs especially during eTwinning projects. As a language teacher I have to pay attention to the difficulties students may have in learning the subject I teach because they live in a place where they are learning a L2 language and English is the third language they are learning... it could be easy for some of them to switch from a language to another but there would be some students who could find it very hard!

Konstantina Eirini Koufou, Greece

2021-09-23 14:57:48 UTC

I have a phd in language teaching and I chose this subject due to my interest in european languages. Even though I teach modern greek only I often intergrate terminology, loan words/phrases, books with common themes and customs in order to talk about the families of lang in Europe. And I encourage multi-language students to share facts about grammar or syntax or mainly vocabulary that can help their peers learning.

Gabriela Maria Borza, Romania

gabymaria22977 — 2021-09-23 16:00:08 UTC

My students are all native Romanians and we speak the same language, but I am a "language conscious teacher" because I teach them how many languages are on this earth and about the need to learn new languages. My children at school realized that they need to know other languages, especially from interacting with other students from other countries in eTwinning projects, which is one of the big goals I work with my students in eTwinning projects.

Gabriela Maria Borza, Romania

gabymaria22977 — 2021-09-23 16:04:18 UTC

In terms of accommodating students with academic language, which is another important facet of language awareness, I always, in my lessons, make them read and tell me what they understood, even if they knew nothing about it. Thus we do the translation from the academic language to the common language, they understand better and get used slowly to new academic fields, acquiring along the way the cognitive competence of the academic language.

Veronica, Spain

2021-09-23 16:10:09 UTC

In order to be empathetic

Rosario Gil, Burgos, Spain

2021-09-23 18:42:35 UTC

I consider myself quite language aware. I've had to deal with many different students in different contexts. Foreign students usually enter ordinary High School groups when they can understand and speak Spanish. They have previously received personal attention to learn the language. In my experience, I had some students from Eastern Europe and South -America , and they were well integrated with the others. Children are usually really receptive and learn fast. I've also worked as a private tutor. Teaching spanish to a Japanese woman was a really challenging experience. She could speak Japanese and a bit of English. All resources are helpful. Pictures, gestures, Online dictionaries, Spanish texbook recommended for Japanese people, cultural comments (Manga, festivals, etc) It was really hard work, especially for her, , since Japanese is so different. Teaching Spanish to a German young man was much easier, but I often used English or German words when the explanations in Spanish weren't clear enough. I always advise students to learn languages. The more you learn, the best you'll be able to communicate and understand other people from other cultures.

Angeliki, Greece

agg_aggelopoulou — 2021-09-23 19:19:41 UTC

Being a foreign language teacher, I can say that being language aware is one of the-must-have qualities. Of course, there's always place for improvement. Among my 16-18 year-old students there is a significant number of a foreign background even though the students themselves are practically fully integrated.

Enrique Labajos, Salamanca,Spain

2021-09-24 09:52:13 UTC

I consider language awareness lets teachers and students learn the gist of language. A teacher must bear in mind that students coming from diverse backgrounds and countries can learn effectively,understand the cultural differences between their mother tongue and the target language(English) and better promote the use of language.
Being a language-aware teacher means understanding the grammar rules of a language and knowing how they are used. Three prominent elements to take into account are: form, meaning and pronunciation.
In my own experience I have taught many students coming from Morocco who didn´t have a good command of Spanish nor English, so they were given extra support in both languages to overcome their weaknesses and become integrated in the class group.

María Teresa, Spain

2021-09-24 17:32:14 UTC

I am constantly trying to be a language aware teacher. It is essential to know the school setting, circumstances, learners levels of competence and their language experiences not only in but also out of school.

My Level of Language-Awareness

2021-09-24 23:11:43 UTC

After being introduced to the notion of the concept being taught on the MOOC, I would consider myself a partially language-aware individual. As a prospective educator, it is important to know when and how to incorporate non-primary languages while helping English-language learners learn the English language and their maternal language simultaneously. The same mentality can also apply in places where English is not the primary language in a particular country, but is used in the classroom. The main area in need for improvement would be to catch up on the linguistic diversity of the world's least spoken languages, where cultures that are not prominent in most western education systems create new challenges that need time to learn.

—Austin Nicholas Dragos [United States of America]

Christina, Greece

2021-09-25 06:05:07 UTC

As a frech teacher I try to find words and cultural connections with the pupils mother tongue, I ask them how many languages they speak and the level of knowledge, ask them why do we learn a foreign language.

Ayşen, Turkey

AysenCalisir — 2021-09-25 12:45:07 UTC

I am not a language teacher. Of course, they are luckier than us in this regard. I am aware of how important language is on the road to world citizenship. Overcoming the communication problem with people, connecting and moving forward is of course thanks to language. We try to communicate with my refugee students at my school without being able to understand their language. We try to teach our own language. Language has a great effect on creating mutual empathy. I am trying to improve myself in this regard.

Caterina Fantini - Italy

caterina_fantini1 — 2021-09-25 13:27:21 UTC

I'm noy a language -aware teacher, but I hope to become after this course

Roxana, Castilla y León (Spain)

letrarevuelta — 2021-09-25 15:53:07 UTC

I think I am a language-aware teacher to some extent, but I want to improve it.

Yeşer, Turkey

yesersahin — 2021-09-25 17:39:58 UTC

As a foreign language teacher, I believe that I am a language-aware teacher. I always try to learn what languages my students can speak and show respect to their mother tongues. Also, I give examples from different languages while teaching in my classroom in order to raise language-awareness of my students.

Tania - Spain

2021-09-25 19:42:12 UTC

I consider myself a partially language-aware teacher. I used to work as a MFL teacher in a school where students came from all parts of the worls and teaching them made me feel more aware of my students' needs. However, I would like to learn some strategies and methods to put all this into practice more effectively.

pacoarroyo84 — 2021-09-26 06:56:42 UTC

As a teacher of English, what I want my students get familiar with the whole culture of that English speaking country, using the language. I do not have many students that have a second language, but what I appreciate is that those using it , get easier learning a third language

Karen, Germany

vollmer2110 — 2021-09-26 07:40:19 UTC

I think as a foreign language teacher I am a language aware to some extent. I would like to expand my knowledge of the theories describing language learning and teaching to improve my competence and become more language aware after this course

Diana, Italy

2021-09-26 07:50:28 UTC

I am not language teacher, I only did some tutoring and it wasn't so bad at all. But I would like to become more language aware teacher.

Ana, Portugal

2021-09-26 08:46:31 UTC

I try to be a language aware teacher and to me the word consciousness is one of the most important keys. We have to be conscious about what we/our students already know but also about what we/they can still develop and the possible challenges implied in a language learning process.

Language Awareness

2021-09-26 09:10:29 UTC

I believe I am on my way to becoming a language aware teacher. I teach in a multicultural school where over 20 languages are spoken by our students. Language is part of culture; showing interest in the learners' language also demonstrates interest in the culture and thus lives. This interest can change how welcome learners feel in their learning environment.
I don't know yet which aspects I still have to develop, because I'm still learning about the concept and methods.

Hello colleagues, in my humble opinion and as a professional training teacher who uses English on specific occasions, obviously I am not an aware teacher, but I would like to learn as much as possible in this course to learn and improve my methodology and improve the educational technique in to the best of my ability to become a little more aware teacher.Good course companions.

2021-09-26 09:22:24 UTC

Thomas, France. How to quantify without a reference scale?

2021-09-26 19:21:04 UTC

I feel like a language-aware teacher which would be a basic skill for any foreign language teacher, but still if there is any reference scale or chart to evaluate the degree of language-awareness, I might expectedly get a rather low score with a great margin of progression. Language-aware teacher can value and encourage students self-confidence by leting them perform some of their languages in the classroom. As Confucius said "Whenever three people walk together, there must always be one of them who can become my teacher" (i.e. we can always learn something from everyone) Language-awareness can also help the teacher to understand language-related mistakes from the students, to avoid misjudgment, and to custom proper evaluations that might be able to limit language bias phenomenon.

Yue, China The MOI from TL to translanguaging

2021-09-26 19:38:07 UTC

In foreign language teaching, the advantages of target language (TL) use as medium of instruction (MOI) are very well-known, but the idea of translanguaging and multilingual curriculum is now challenging this traditional pattern. Yet, on the other hand, the most tangible limit to this approach would be the teacher actual multilingual skills and level of language-awareness, making teacher training a fondamental issue to deploy such curriculum.

olivierdelaporte12 — 2021-09-26 20:40:32 UTC

I think I am not an language-are-teacher yet.
But I am interested in what this course can provide me...
I teach english course 1h30/week with my 10 years-old-french-pupils. But my goal is to teach other courses (musics, physical education...) in english for, at least, 25% of the class time.

Sara Carvalho, Portugal

saracarvalho1 — 2021-09-26 21:08:19 UTC

I am a teacher who has always valued my language to communicate with my students. Now I want to learn to communicate with them in a new language!
It will be a new experience that will give me more skills as a teacher.

FUSUN — 2021-09-27 10:23:48 UTC

language awareness is such important subject.Our students can be so shy to speak to another language(mostly English).I hope ,it is going to be more useful for me.

Ana, Portugal

filipaneca — 2021-09-27 11:08:26 UTC

I try to be a language aware teacher as I am a teacher of English as a foreign language. I believe using the students' first language is important to some extent so they can understand how the foreign language works.

Miliana - Craiova, Romania

2021-09-27 12:11:51 UTC

Languages define the identity of each of us. I believe that kindergarten is the ideal place to stimulate children's linguistic development.
Language is the key to the world.

Esperanza

2021-09-27 14:03:22 UTC

I am interested in the idea of how our language shape the way we think... fascinating!

Niki Greece

2021-09-27 14:36:39 UTC

I want to be a language-aware teacher but i feel i have a great deal to learn. Agood start might be appreciating my student's mother language and culture and therefore their identity.

Graça Casimiro, Portugal

2021-09-27 14:53:38 UTC

I believe that I am a language-aware teacher at a certain point since I trust that I still have so many things to learn about this area.
I do think that to have this awareness is an asset for us to understand our students better, especially those who don't share our native tongue. It is also know that the more languages you have under your belt, the more knowleadgeable of the world you might be as you are surrounded by diversity and your capacity to problem-solving is higher. A teacher that can benefit from diversity in a classroom is a richer teacher as he has different perspectives in relation to life, customs and behaviours. When facing diversity and difference students develop their skills much faster than the others who only see one side of the coin, that is, when pupils have colleagues of different origins they come to the conclusion that translation can never be made literally as there are phrase peculiar to each country and that's why they can broaden their horizons.
I find it difficult to define what I still need to develop my skills in this area since I think it will be a lifelong process. To share ideas, to see other viewpoints may help me enlarge my knowledge in relation to this.

Daniela Eugenia Dinu/Romania

danielastoian80 — 2021-09-27 15:07:50 UTC

Language awareness is vital for all of us. So I am waiting for new ideas to apply in my classes.

Francesca, Italy

furnarifrancesca1967 — 2021-09-27 15:55:02 UTC

I tend to believe that I'm working to become a language aware teacher as I try on a daily basis to appreciate my students languages and look for sharing the common ground.

Teresa, Spain

2021-09-27 16:35:49 UTC

From my point of view, language is enrichment, it is diversity. It means meta knowledge. For this reason, I think that I am quite fortunate to have the classes in which the predominant aspect is the variety. I have many students from different countries, and at first it seems to be scary, as not only do they not understand very well English, nor the Spanish. But at some point, it is quite interesting to share languages and see how they differently and similarly work. Even in terms of culture. Therefore, I consider myself to be midway on becoming a proficiency language aware teacher.

Evren Uygun,Turkey

2021-09-27 16:41:18 UTC

In university I have a lesson about linguism
I am very excited while learning how the languages appeared and shaped

Constantine, Canada

constantineioannou — 2021-09-27 16:45:13 UTC

I am a big promoter of language awareness for many quick reasons:
-growing up with another language at home and at school made me aware of the assumptions that come when someone has not enough awareness about languages or in even more general terms about how people may communicate differently
-as an advocate for first language preservation and for accommodating English language learners in schools and classrooms, it became obvious to me that although many efforts for inclusion had increased cultural awareness that teachers still lacked language awareness to understand learners better (even if we do not speak all the languages that are present, we should at least try to understand about them)
-being multilingual people may assume that you are the best person to communicate with someone in another language even if it is one you do not speak and partly they may be correct because you are more flexible in trying to find paths to communication
-working with teachers of International Languages here in Ontario we do activities for EDL to promote the importance of ALL languages and to reflect on our process for learning and dispel any myths that may exist related to language learning
-although we are pretty aware in this group, there is always more for us to be informed about (ongoing)

Cristina, Spain

2021-09-27 17:42:28 UTC

Hi!
I think that I'm a language-aware teacher. I teach English as a foreign language in Spain and I always try to take into account the different backgrounds of my students, especially when they just came from another country and communication is difficult.

Francesca, Italy

2021-09-27 17:58:20 UTC

Simply put, language awareness means understanding the grammar rules of a language and knowing how they are used. But being a language aware teacher also involves encouraging understanding between cultures, improving students' cognitive ability and preparing them for life beyond school.
For all students (whether they are learning through their first language or an additional language) language is a vehicle for learning. It is through language that learners access the content of the lesson and communicate their ideas. So, as a teacher, I think it is my 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 you understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning.

Gülbahar, Turkey

2021-09-27 18:50:47 UTC

Being a language aware teacher is the most important part of our occupation as we reflect the language with all its features so that students can get the most of it. But of course I still need to develop my teaching skills as the world is changing so dothe students we are teaching.

Regina, Italy

regina_marrazzo — 2021-09-27 20:14:16 UTC

I think I am a quite language aware teacher, but I expect to better exploit personal capacity through the inputs I will get from this MOOC

Fernanda, Portugal

ferfreitasrbe — 2021-09-27 20:40:41 UTC

With a new language, a new world will be open to any student. Learning a language forces us to improve our listening skills and at the same time look at the language itself in a different way.

Bojan, Croatia

labojan — 2021-09-28 09:03:42 UTC

I am not a language teacher, but I encourage students to use languages and to learn new words and expressions from other languages in different situations. It is, as I find it myself, very useful because you are able to make more mind connections by realizing different connections between some words in different languages. I also try to teach them songs in other languages so they can get to know them along with the culture of different nations as well.
There is an expression that says: "You're rich as much as you know more languages" - your value is in the number of languages you know. I think this says a lot.

Z.Elif Eser-Turkey

elifsozeri — 2021-09-28 09:51:50 UTC

Yes I feel I'm language aware teacher. A language means a different world. So I'm trying to do my best while I'm teachin. But I know I have still have a lot to learn as the world is changing every second. So I have to update myself.

Monica, Romania

monicaiordache — 2021-09-28 20:08:44 UTC

I believe that the correct and objective teaching manner of a foreign language implies not only a theoretical language awareness. Interculturality is a tool I rely on in promoting this approach and I think that students can more easily discover the linguistic nuances.

Ebru, Turkey

ebruozcam — 2021-09-29 07:49:21 UTC

Every language opens the doors of another world to people.

Mihaela Reiter, Romania

2021-09-29 14:12:08 UTC

I belive I´m a language aware teacher. Even if we have the same mother tongue, by teaching French as a foreign language I try to find words and cultural connections so that my students can easily understand the language. Also, I want to make them realize how important is to know other languages, to interact when possible with other students from other countries.

Dóra, Hungary

2021-09-29 15:39:18 UTC

I hope my students can learn about the targeted language's culture and some connections between their mother tongiue and the foreign language. I think I am a language aware teacher but I still want to learn more to be better.

Natália, Portugal

2021-09-29 22:48:31 UTC

I think I'm a language-aware teacher.
It's very important to know how you learn languages in general in order to help students to learn and develop their knowledge and improve proficiency.
Besides the more languages you can speak the easier will be for you to learn new ones. Every language gives you the possibility of meeting new people and their culture. It enriches who you are and prepare you to future opportunities as a student, worker or tourist.

DrSuha Ababneh

islambabneh — 2021-09-30 10:55:36 UTC

To delveped their learning from different learning sourses

Beatriz, Spain

2021-09-30 17:00:17 UTC

We as teachers make our students learn vocabulary, grammar both written and orally. But there should be something more to this; we should make them be aware of the nuances and meanings of a language as part of language learning.
Students will be able to understand, appreciate and use the language better if we increase language awareness.

Teresa from Spain

2021-09-30 17:59:27 UTC

I am afraid I am (was) not a language-aware teacher... I love the idea that being aware of all that language proficiency which is common to every language, I can be more effective in teaching Technology in English to my very language diverse class. Looking forward to learning more about it!!

Fotini, Thessaloniki

xfotini — 2021-10-01 06:38:31 UTC

In terms of teaching based on human rights pedagogies and raising awareness of respecting diversity in my classroom I could say that in a way I am a language aware teacher. But I really need to cultivate my methods and be more effective.

Raluca ,Romania

raluska — 2021-10-01 15:10:49 UTC

Hi!
I think that I'm a language-aware teacher.
Every language opens the doors of another world to people.

Ifigenia, Thessaloniki

2021-10-01 20:59:20 UTC

I feel I'm a language aware teacher

Valentina, Romania

roberta_raul07 — 2021-10-02 09:10:26 UTC

Yes! I think I'm well aware of the other languages!

Patrizia, Italy

2021-10-02 14:30:52 UTC

I hope I'm a language-aware teacher.
As language teacher, I talk about, think about, and use language a lot of times, but I may or may not be aware of the ways in which I do it!

Language is more than a tool. I am a teacher at a vocational school where more than 50% of our students have a migration background. Of course, many of them speak German quite well. But all the same many of them are not ablento express their feelings in this language, which is still a foreign language and does not offer the possibility to share their feelings. So the foreign language is somehow a formal tool to take part in my lessons. Their cultural identity is expressed in their mother tongue. So sometimes, I feel seperated...

Erz — 2021-10-02 20:19:16 UTC

Language is power

ssoubassi — 2021-10-03 07:11:56 UTC

Being a speaker of several languages myself and a great believer in the natural capacity of all human beings to learn and communicate across languages, I have always taught my subjects (English and German as Foreign Languages) exploiting the positive interference between them and across the languages that my students were familiar with. In my classes I encourage all learners to switch codes and peer-teach their native languages. I always try to make my students aware of the universal grammar and urge students to discover its different manifestations. We use mediation activities, sing same-subject songs across languages and create CLIL glossaries. I am eager to boost my language awareness by adding more languages to my quiver, like Farsi and Arabic. Thankfully, my students from refugee backgrounds are willing to help out!

Maria Marques, Portugal

mjvmarques — 2021-10-04 11:26:14 UTC

This is the first time that I have such a diversity in my classes. Actually I am very enthusiastic about it, but also very confused on how to deal with it. I try to have my students interact in English and most of them can do it quite easily. But, to the some who don't, I need to integrate them in the activities in a way that they feel comfortable and useful. I don't want them to drift away. So far, this is a great challenge

VA, Portugal

2021-10-04 11:31:00 UTC

Yes, I fell like a language-aware teacher. But migration is becoming more frequent, school is multicultural and I fell I need to develop frequently my teaching skils.

Katerina, Greece

2021-10-04 14:17:10 UTC

I think I need to learn more things about language awareness and the ways it can be used in the classroom.

Silvia Dettori

2021-10-04 15:59:04 UTC

I believe and hope to be a language-aware teacher. In fact, language is not just a skill, but an entire way of being, which must be taken care of especially at school.

Prado, Spain

pradodtoro — 2021-10-04 17:21:14 UTC

I do think that it is really important to be a ¨language-aware¨ teacher. As teachers we deal with different kind of students so we are decision makers, we need to maximize practice for everybody in our class, we need to create a good environment for learning close to their reality and their feelings, etc. Sometimes I feel it is difficult to deal with some students as individuals, taking care of what they might need, without forgetting the necessity of making them feel part of the whole group.

Najoua Slatnia. Tunisia

NajouaSlatnia — 2021-10-04 17:37:26 UTC

Absolutely, I am always very attentive to languages and I can consider myself as a language aware teacher. I am a Spanish teacher, and I see that languages open up important opportunities for students in all areas. Therefore, no matter what section a student is in, he or she should always improve their language skills and learn several languages. On the other hand, the cultural and social aspects transmitted through languages are also of great importance.

I've few experience as a teacher, all your comments are useful to understand better this topic and for sure you're helping me to better understand the importance to be language aware to "enter" in strictly connection with our students.

2021-10-04 18:59:04 UTC

lauramariamaggi — 2021-10-04 19:01:25 UTC

I've few experience as a teacher, all your comments are useful to understand better this topic and for sure you're helping me to better understand the importance to be language aware to "enter" in strictly connection with our students.

Mirela, Croatia

klaricmi — 2021-10-04 20:28:08 UTC

I think that I am a language-aware teacher but I have a lot to learn about helping ,y studebts use their native language better and more efficiently.

Ana Maria Cruz, Portugal

anacruz2 — 2021-10-04 20:56:01 UTC

I believe I'm a language aware user... trying to improve language aware learners. Language learning empowers young students, get to know not only structure but also accent, idioms, nuances ...

Javier

2021-10-04 21:28:20 UTC

Knowing how the languages that are spoken in your classroom look alike and differ from each other is essential to know the strenghts of your students and the challenges they will face.

Claudya Maria, Romania

claudia_neacsa — 2021-10-05 01:44:21 UTC

I hope and I think I'm a language-aware teacher. I work and I learn for this. My believe is that every language opens windows to a better world.

Glyka,Greece

glyka350 — 2021-10-05 04:50:55 UTC

I have been an avid learner of foreign languages probably because I feel the need to communicate easily and fluently with people from different linguistic backgrounds. talking about my language awareness skills I feel I have mastered many, but surely not all of them.

Angela Metallinou, Greece

2021-10-05 12:16:24 UTC

I sm trying to be as much as possible a language aware teacher, who combines every possible language knowledge to help my students get language awareness of all languages they are learning. Still I need to learn much more.

Alina Bogdan, Romania

2021-10-05 13:45:20 UTC

I think learning a foreign language is a long, lifelong process. Knowing a language does not only mean speaking correctly, but knowing about people's lives, knowing specific traditions and customs. it is very important to be a language conscious teacher.

Carmen, Zamora Spain

2021-10-06 20:12:02 UTC

I'm a language- aware teacher and always try to get knowledge of the different language and possible problems that students may have when learning English. It's essential to think and use the language to understand all difficulties implied in learning a new one. It's really interesting when bilingual students try to learn a third language, the techniques and strategies that they applied are useful tools in teaching too

Nazmiye Türkyılmaz, Turkey

2021-10-08 06:36:02 UTC

I think I am aware of languages but I need to learn all details of language awareness. I am always tolerant to different cultures, people and languages so I consider different abilities of my students. I have to learn many things to improve myself.

Maria, Portugal

2021-10-08 20:06:35 UTC

The language awareness provides new ways of thinking and perceiving the world.

Federica Carminati, Italy

2021-10-09 12:52:46 UTC

In our little context in the past it was hard to find new languages or examples of language diversity. But nowadays, in schools, we work with Turkish or Romanian or Indian students and improving our language awareness could be really useful to create a really inclusive context, where every single student can fell part of a community. I think I can really improve myself in language awareness, because it is necessary and it can help me to be a better teacher and a better human being.

Chara. Greece

mamoxara — 2021-10-10 11:11:59 UTC

I am language aware and want to make my students as well

AIKATERINI SIDERI

kate_sideri — 2021-10-11 15:10:49 UTC

Becoming a language aware teacher of a foreign language teaching to multilingual pupils of diverse origin-when it comes to their nationality- and social background is a hard reality to be dealt with hard work and modesty and nothing to be easily gained. I still try it and continue to do so.

Andrea, Serbia

2021-10-11 16:29:58 UTC

Living in a bilingual environment and multicultural environment made me language aware ever since, but now I‚would like to learn about it more according to the principles of the EU

Mukadder, Turkey

2021-10-11 20:41:19 UTC

I guess I can say that I am a language-aware teacher. While teaching, I always try to get help from my students' native tongue or any other foreing language that they have previously learnt. I think we have experienced learning our native language and we are skillful learning a language beceuse we can already speak, write, understand and communicate in one language or more. So this means we can transfer our gained skills and make use of them in order to learn a new foreign language. Trying to understand what mistakes students make dependin on their mother tongue really helps the teacher in the classroom. It's like seeing the learning point in your students' brain, it's like a journey through their childhood which they have struggled to communicate with the world around them. I feel really lucky to be a teacher, especially to be a language teacher. It is conquering different worlds and cultures.

Marta, Poland

meg_paa — 2021-10-12 18:16:33 UTC

I'd like to think of myself as a language aware teacher, and \i hope I am. I have been working with bilingual and multilingual students for last couple of years and in my opinion it is very important to acknowledge the fact that with ability to use other than one's mother tongue comes cultural and social awareness. Both are enriching and beneficial for development of key competences as well as simple human sensitivity.

Clara, Portugal

2021-10-12 19:55:49 UTC

I believe I need to become more ‘language aware’. I understand the possible challenges that language presents to learning, and 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. I also try to understand why students face these difficulties and what I can do to support them.

Aybuke,Turkey

etwininng — 2021-10-16 08:27:30 UTC

Language is the door to the world. Language is necessary to understand cultural differences.

Fratila Alina

ionitaalinamihaela — 2021-10-16 17:41:37 UTC

I think I am a teacher aware of the importance of languages.

deniz eryılmaz

dnzkay9 — 2021-10-17 14:07:28 UTC

I think I am a language teacher because I also have a different mother tongue. Knowing the language also brings knowledge of the culture. and because it is kneaded with human language development culture, it allows to understand the underlying meanings, which is effective communication.

Edurne, Basque Country

2021-10-18 07:09:23 UTC

I have a lot to learn about language awareness, but I'm very curious about this. I'm aware about the importance of communication and I would like to find ways to improve this in my language classes. Anyway, I often explain the origin of the words and their translations, we use translation tools with foreign students.

Viorica, Romania

vigyorika477 — 2021-10-18 08:25:43 UTC

I am a mathematics teacher, but I try to keep up with the demands of European society.

Şermin/Turkey

ayansermin — 2021-10-18 14:54:40 UTC

I think I am a language teacher because I also have a different mother tongue. Knowing the language also brings knowledge of the culture. and because it is kneaded with human language development culture, it allows to understand the underlying meanings, which is effective communication.

Alina, Romania

2021-10-18 17:16:37 UTC

Learning another language or one more languages is very important to understand the world, to have a new vision of the world. It is also important for the communication and knwing about the others.

Danijela, Croatia

2021-10-19 17:51:52 UTC

The more languages you speak, the more you are worth...A sentence that stuck in my memory as a child was often repeated by teachers and parents. I try to be LA, but there is still a long way to go to complete satisfaction...

Fernanda, Portugal

ferfreitasrbe — 2021-10-21 15:29:18 UTC

I feel and I am sure of it, a teacher who is aware of how he uses language, how he dominates it, how he implements it, how diversification will be better able to communicate and transmit knowledge to his students.

Violeta, Ro

2021-10-22 16:28:16 UTC

I consider myself a ¨language-aware¨ teacher. I tried to encourage students to express themselves in the classroom, to learn from every context and activity and to search in each activity that "star" that can enlight their language studies.

Cristina, Spain

2021-10-24 10:49:58 UTC

I think I am a language aware teacher and try to fulfill that role as much as I can and would like to learn more and apply it on my teaching

Zlata Hrženjak, Croatia

zhrzenjak1 — 2021-10-24 16:35:04 UTC

I believe that I am language aware teacher because while teaching my students, I encourage them to communicate. Any language is the mean of communication, spoken or writen, so the only purpose of learning any language, no matter if it is foreign or mother tongue, is to communicate. I am aware of different learning and social abilities of my students, so I always encourage them to use the language in the way they can do it.

rasha

rashaalomari448 — 2021-10-26 18:18:54 UTC

believe that I am language aware teacher because while teaching my students, I encourage them to communicate.

Elena A

2021-11-04 12:35:29 UTC

I think I am a language-aware teacher not only because I encourage students to communicate during my class, but also because I try to adapt my topics and method to an always changing society.

I think that I am a teacher who knows languages. I encourage students to talk about various topics.

akelderya — 2021-12-19 13:48:00 UTC