Supporting language learning by Teacher Academy

Ana, Portugal

acfilipe36 — 2017-05-08 22:34:09 UTC

In the process of integration, it is important to underline the importance of
Cultural and linguistic. To have sufficient command of the language of the host country
Essential condition for successful integration. Therefore, it is extremely
It is important to provide immigrants with the language of the
In this case, Portuguese.
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Portugal has welcomed immigrants, in most Portuguese speaking countries.
The remaining immigrants, although they did not have Portuguese as their mother tongue, did not
Difficulties in learning Portuguese. But it is still necessary
This process of learning Portuguese and reaching out to communities that, for
Remain very closed, are not very permeable to language learning, as is
Case of Asian communities.

Pina Italy

2017-05-09 08:36:00 UTC

In my country there are benevolent associations that offer the supposed boys.

Vanesa, Croatia

2017-05-10 08:50:14 UTC

Patrizia Italy

2017-05-10 09:15:11 UTC

It is also important to accept the support of various associations to integrate migrants

Pietro- Italy

pierolauro — 2017-05-10 13:22:51 UTC

I do really agree with Nora when she says that language barriers are not difficult to be broken. It is simple for migrant students to learn the language of the host countries because they are curious about habits and cultural peculiarity of the new country. The idea of taking them outdoor for a walk or a visit in town is fantastic, they can easily learn from signs, shopping ads, or just asking directions or entering shops. it's the best way to get them involved so they can learn without studying books or concentrate on educational tools.

Grazy.Italy

2017-05-10 13:23:56 UTC

I also think that language is a barrier to migrants refugees but, today, there are many associations that supply italian language courses to help them. Migrants quickly learn our language because is the main way to integrate here and to becommunicate.

Maura, Italy

mauraccia — 2017-05-10 17:15:11 UTC

As I have already written, I can confirm the usefulness of routines to teach basic formulas but even to create a group and to allow students to leave some personal issues outside... I have already written that, for small children, a good first words online dictionary is https://www.pubcoder.com/ita/BenvenutiABC, but I underline that, since the beginning motivation to get in touch with their counterparts is really strong, my issue is not to teach basic language, but to keep the motivation alive toward following contents, especially contents to be studied, and to find motivating activities or spurs...

Daniele - Italy

danvir — 2017-05-10 17:48:28 UTC

Share some ideas about supporting refugee's language learning
I agree with Nora: linguistic barrier are not impossible to overcome. We have to be resilient and hopeful and our students have to feel that we trust them.
As they say in the video routines and also explaining School Code Conduct are important.
Using labels to pin to classroom objects or some games with cards reporting picture and the name written in the host language maybe is a good idea.
Students that wanted to learn better have nowadays a lot of online resources: e.g. Rai website, duolingo app, memerise app (apt for also for people with different styles of learning)

Rosa L.- Italy

2017-05-10 19:21:30 UTC

Here you are some interesting links for the teaching of Italian L2

http://italianoperstranieri.loescher.it/materiale-didattico

http://www.stranita.it/materiali/categorie-speciali/bambini

https://www.comeitaliani.it/2014/06/26/giochi-per-bambini-non

https://stefanomaroni.wordpress.com/2013/02/15/materiali-per-lalfabetizzazione-italiano-l2/

Lien Belgium

lien_bossuyt — 2017-05-10 20:07:02 UTC

I am participating in a story telling project. I see that telling stories also helps a lot to support language learning. There is a method, called TPRS, which is story telling in language learning. I am not very used to TPRS but I want to learn to practice it!

Chiara, Rome

carusochiara — 2017-05-10 21:01:01 UTC

In many private and public schools in Rome and nearby, there are courses about learning Italian (Corsi d' Italiano per stranieri). Most of them are free and give support to all different students.
http://www.scuolemigranti.org/

Yuri, Italy

yurisab — 2017-05-11 06:35:39 UTC

In Italy almost all the courses and the materials about this theme are not free

Valentina - Italy

valebell80 — 2017-05-11 10:11:31 UTC

Here you can find free resources to teach Italian

http://italianoperstranieri.loescher.it/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/itastra/?fref=ts

http://www.scuolemigranti.org/materiali-per-insegnare/

Cinzia, Rome

2017-05-11 11:06:58 UTC

In Italy courses of Italian as a foreign languages are available for free and they are organised by the municipalities.

Paola A, Italy

paolarduini — 2017-05-11 14:40:32 UTC

This is the aspect I'm more involved in this schoo year: teaching national language as a second language. Thank you all the ( Italian) colleague who put here this hude amount of resources

Veronica, Belgium

2017-05-11 16:07:52 UTC

I want to share with you this resource. I used it while giving Italian to migrants in Italy, it's maybe more for adults , but it's free and well done I think.
http://www.l-pack.eu
It exist in 8 different languages.

Serena A. - Italy

dolcefollia79 — 2017-05-11 16:31:29 UTC

I agree with Nora when she says that language barriers aren't difficult to be broken.
This is an interestind link for teaching Italian L2
http://italianoper stranieri.loescher.it/materiale-didattico

Rosanna B, Italy

ros_basso — 2017-05-11 18:05:46 UTC

There are many ideas on the Internet.
http://www.itals.it/siti-con-attivit%C3%A0-di-italiano-stranieri
This is an interesting free site for learning Italian language.
or e.g. for Italian learners http://grammar.yourdictionary.com/style-and-usage/writing-an-effective-welcome-speech.html

Roberta, Turin

condomittir — 2017-05-12 13:19:37 UTC

I completely agree with Nora. Barriers can break if you want to break it. If you are available to find a meeting point without renouncing to the primitive history, your life, your own experiences and your own higher culture than others.
Lim, books and internet can help us to meet the others

http://www.italianoperstranieri.eu/tag/schede-didattiche-per-stranieri/

https://integriamoci.wordpress.com/2010/11/30/materiale-didattico-per-principianti/

Miriam Scafati, Italy

ospedale — 2017-05-12 18:42:03 UTC

My students learn Itaian playing. We often go to the shops, supermarket, parks and at the museum. We also use tablet applications.

Peppe, Sicily

2017-05-12 22:35:50 UTC

I also think that the use of social networks greatly contributes to the learning of a new language. Then children learn easily by playing.

Rossana, Brindisi -Italy

rossaco — 2017-05-13 06:14:20 UTC

I believe that miming songs and rhymes is very useful to learn a language and to foster the forming of a group with children till 10-12 years old. With older children it could be songs, movies , sports, acting or art, these last ones good in helping to express themselves and release stress.

Βασιλική,Greece

vasikriko — 2017-05-13 06:46:12 UTC

For the children in the age of my students,4-6, its more easy getting to know our language. Through games, team work, experiential learning,encourage them experiment, are some useful ideas.

Barbara, Germany

2017-05-13 07:52:37 UTC

I used short movies from the following website to teach German. https://www.planet-schule.de/wissenspool/extra/inhalt/extra-deutsch/03-sam-hat-ein-date.html
We watched one episode a week.

There are also worksheets that go along with the series. The grammar we learned during the week matched the topics used in the short films.

The students loved this method of learning German. It was fun and they learned the phrases quite quickly.

Valbona,Albania

valbona_mata2 — 2017-05-13 11:59:07 UTC

Ekaterini, Poland

katerinaki62 — 2017-05-13 13:52:33 UTC

The resources for learning Polish by the foreigners are not so rich. That is why we usually prepare materials ourselves or teach through experience which is most effective.
As for English which is also the instruction language at my international school I use: Nearpod https://nearpod.com, Quizlet https://quizlet.com/en-gb
Pixton https://www.pixton.com
English Attack
https://pl.english-attack.com
and a lot more.
We also make films and write eBooks together.
A very good activity is recording stories for the blind children which can be done in any language.

María, Spain

isasama10 — 2017-05-13 22:10:34 UTC

This is an official course on-line to learn Spanish for children and young students developed by the Instituto Cervantes. It´s called "Hola, amigos" and it is excellent and good fun at the same time.

http://www.cervantes.es/lengua_y_ensenanza/aprender_espanol/cursos_holamigos_internet.htm

Lucia, Italy

2017-05-14 10:18:06 UTC

Some usefull link to learn italian
http://www.italianoinfamiglia.it/

http://www.zanichellibenvenuti.it/

http://italianoperstranieri.loescher.it/

https://www.almaedizioni.it/it/almatv/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQquNGJMXe8

https://www.youtube.com/user/almatvitaliano

Angeliki, Greece-Thessaloniki

antzela12345 — 2017-05-14 10:36:04 UTC

Very useful links for greek teachers:
http://www.diapolis.auth.gr/eclass/course/view.php?id=16

https://e-didaskalia.blogspot.gr/2016/11/blog-post_288.html

http://www.greek-language.gr/certification/amea/show.html?id=1

Maria Intrieri, Italy

mri5 — 2017-05-14 15:18:03 UTC

In my city, Rome, there are now many realities that support migrants who have just arrived in our country, providing training, first aid and everything else. Often, these same associations offer courses for teachers who have children migrant students just come and provide them with the tools they need to deal with the situation.
Some of these are: the In-Migration Association (http://www.inmigrazione.it/), the Migrant Schools Association (http://www.scuolemigranti.org/) or the Cidis Onlus (https: / /www.facebook.com/cidis.onlus/)

lllucia8 — 2017-05-14 20:31:52 UTC

Chiara, Italy

chiara_semplicini — 2017-05-15 05:15:20 UTC

A very useful website for learning Italian at school is "Ciao Amici".
http://ciaoamici.rizzolieducation.it

Monica, Italy

moni_fornelli — 2017-05-15 07:11:33 UTC

For teachers who are teaching Italian as L2 I suggest to use "Facile Facile: libro di italiano per studenti stranieri"- Nina Edizioni.
There are books for the following levels: A0, A1, A2 and B1.
Besides give a glance at the website: http://www.italianoperstranieri.loescher.it

Isabel, Portugal

2017-05-15 08:39:16 UTC

In Portugal there is a plan, not only to learn the language, to receive migrants. Http://www.dge.mec.pt/search/site/migrantes

Gergana Vladimirova - Bulgaria

usmihnatodestvo — 2017-05-15 09:40:44 UTC

A good idea that is also used for students with autism are the pictograms, the pictotraductor. There are pages with thousands of images that can be used to explain something. It would also be good if we take the students to a supermarket and see products and pronounce their name.

http://www.pictoaplicaciones.com/
http://www.arasaac.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktp0bPjDrxg

Francesco Coppola

fscocoppola — 2017-05-15 11:39:50 UTC

In Italy there are networks of schools that include infant and adolescent schools. Each network has one or more databases where there are activities for strange pupils, good practices and other educational tools

Clara, Italy

clarag — 2017-05-15 12:54:05 UTC

On the internet we can find a great amount of resources. The most famous online resources for migrant students in Italy are already mentioned by many colleagues. The first I have used and that I find complete is http://www.centrocome.it/ the website of an organisation aimed at promoting social inclusion of migrant children. On this page, for example, you can find a useful visual dictionary for sports, that could be used to present or to reinforce the language used in concrete sports activities http://www.centrocome.it/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/progetto_pupi_materiale_rev-3_web.pdf

Nora, Italy

noraroxane — 2017-05-15 15:17:53 UTC

I thank my colleagues for all the useful links here shared

Rosa Medeiros, Portugal

rosa_medeiros1 — 2017-05-15 17:05:04 UTC

http://www.refugiados.pt/
https://www.facebook.com/Plataformadeapoioaosrefugiados/

http://www.refugiados.acm.gov.pt/

Dr Raimo Salo, Finland

2017-05-15 17:20:46 UTC

There is a good FB site for Finnish as a Second Language teachers which I highly recommend. https://www.facebook.com/groups/186446821430368/?fref=ts

Angela, italy

2017-05-15 21:00:51 UTC

With my students I would like to see the sites suggested in this lesson and would also like to see the sites suggested by the participants in this course.

Solange Delicado, Portugal

sdelicado — 2017-05-15 21:07:09 UTC

In Portugal the Ministery of Education has a national plan for migrant's integration and on the oficial site, teachers can find some helpful links, documents, for teaching portuguese language to migrants.

Silvia, Italy

2017-05-15 23:06:30 UTC

In my town it is possible to have a linguistic and cultural mediator for about 10 hours in order to facilitate the integration and understanding of the new environment for the newcomer kids.

Petrina, Albania

vilifeliksi — 2017-05-16 11:48:48 UTC

Special Language Teachers have developed classes in different languages, such as Turkish, Iranian, Egyptian, etc

Livia, Italy

2017-05-16 13:19:52 UTC

There are cultural mediator to facilitate inclusion

Sara Viotti, Italy

sara_viotti — 2017-05-16 15:28:41 UTC

When Erika says that the mother tongue is the tongue of the soul, she is expressing a big truth that many teachers deny. I mean that foreigner kids are often expected not to communicate with other children from the same country or talking the same language, because the teachers think that they can't learn a new language if they use their own one at school. On the contrary, bilingual people are able to learn more quicky than others. I would like to tell to you colleagues a little story. About eight years ago, I was a volunteer
teaching italian in the afternoon to a chinese girl. The teacher in charge of the coordination of the project had noticed that in the normal lessons in the morning the girl stayed said and alone. After six months of school, her vocabulary was very poor, she didn't spend time with italian kids and always received bad marks. My work with her was not easy: she had to do the same homeworks that were given to the rest of the class and furthermore some exercises to learn italian....but the problem was she couldn't name the colours, for
example. Until the day I saw she had a pink cellular phone. My phone was also pink...can you imagine what happened in the following days? She called me the pink teacher and with some pencils could learn colours, after came paintings and descrptions....now I don't know about her, but I hop she is happy.

Ida,Italy

2017-05-16 16:02:14 UTC

In my school there aren't cultural mediator to facilitate inclusion

Paola, Italy

paolcro — 2017-05-16 16:34:03 UTC

At this time I have no ideas other than those in the two videos. In Italy we also have a very important figure who is the cultural mediator, only the time to book it is very long and often the new arrivals are not supported as well as they could and are immediately put into class

Linda Carlos Ruiz, Finland

linda_konsin — 2017-05-16 18:06:21 UTC

papunet.net for communicating with pictures, moped.fi for example instructions and different kinds of forms in arab, somali, etc.

Claudia Renda, Italy

2017-05-16 20:01:23 UTC

In my school the figure of cultural mediator is marginale unfortunatly. We have teachers specific to support new arrive with books, lim, cd, video that can help.

Rita(Italy)

2017-05-16 20:54:14 UTC

In my opinion ,and in my short short experience teaching... in Italy we're not ready to receive foreign pupils above all regugees... we don't have mediatores or maybe we (teachers) don't know how to move properly in certain situations,

Moschoula, Hellas

mcdouris — 2017-05-17 16:45:29 UTC

It is true that the educational system in Hellas is not completely ready to include refuggees and immigrants at all levels. Things are much better at the lower levels, kindergarden, junior school and Lower High.
Upper High is not as supported and whatever work is done is by personal inituitive and group of fellow teachers.

Eleni, Switzerland

eleni_mousena — 2017-05-17 17:07:34 UTC

Here are some links to useful web sites for teachers of migrant students in Switzerland:
http://www.avesac.ch/
https://www.evam.ch/

Ourania, Grec

ranialampou — 2017-05-17 18:54:03 UTC

Here is a very usefull link:

Ourania, Grece

ranialampou — 2017-05-17 18:54:10 UTC

Annalisa, Italy

2017-05-17 19:18:55 UTC

In my school there is no cultural mediator and no specialised teachers. Sometimes are the foreign pupils that help the others foreigns to understand the language and to integrate in the new environment (peer to peer education).

A.Gallina

scrocchia67 — 2017-05-17 20:50:46 UTC

2.6 Supporting language learning

I teach English, so what I want is to make students communicate using English not so much Italian. There are lots of web sites for learning English, but if possible I try to use comics and songs. Music is always a good choice.

Victoria, Greece

victvoud — 2017-05-21 13:08:02 UTC

I would try to include word games in my lessons, and as a teacher of English I would try to use both Greek and English in my classes in order for pupils to get acqauinted with both language codes. So, I think that flashcards and word songs are a safe solution in the learning process.

Graziella, Italy

2017-05-21 18:07:38 UTC

Teaching immigrant students as soon as the new language arrives is a huge challenge but very rewarding. Many new students are eager to learn the new language quickly and through flashcards, videos, songs and dialogue with Italian students.

Fotis, Greece

FOTIOSPONTIKAKIS — 2017-05-23 16:04:05 UTC

Some links in Greece:
http://www.oepek.gr/pdfs/t-Yliko.pdf
http://www.keda.uoa.gr/epam/ed_material.html
About integrating music, material from "Melina" project (songs, sounds of nature etc) http://iema.gr/data/EducationalProjects/Melina/Hxos_tis_mousikis.htm
Material from "Melina" project "Travelling in Greece" and "Travelling in Mediterranean" http://users.sch.gr/evaggelidis61/mesogeios/mesogeios.htm(with songs from some Mediterranean countries among them Egypt and Morocco http://www.iema.gr/media/Melina/Mediterranean/Taxidevontas_sti_mesogeio.pdf
Also music and fairy tales of Kurdish people and Gypsies http://www.iema.gr/data/EducationalProjects/Melina/tsigganoi_kourdoi.htm These are some very interesting links in Greek.

Maria, Italy

2017-05-24 20:00:52 UTC

In my school there isn't a cultural mediator because there aren't migrated students yet.

G.keserci

2018-10-13 20:39:05 UTC

Lucia, Italy.

lllucia8 — 2018-10-20 17:56:02 UTC

It is quite important nowaday to know more than two languages for being part of a multicultural environment. So the school is the rigth place where pupils could start learning languages and get use to intercultural exchanges.

Derya Özcan Özalan

alkas_ocalan — 2020-07-05 15:46:21 UTC

First of all , I ask our guidance teachers to help the refugee students psychologically. Turkish and Arabic teachers will help me afterwards. I plan activities where students spend a lot of time and are exposed to language.

amk Hans Günther

2020-10-05 13:09:07 UTC

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