Multilingual-sensitive approaches to EFL teaching by https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu Add your ideas here en-us 2018-12-20 12:40:03 UTC 2018-12-21 17:57:36 UTC hello@padlet.com Multilingual students outperform German (first language) students in English. They can profit from a multilingual potential in English classes (BUT this potential is often interfered with bad socioeconomic backgrounds). (DESI study 2009) https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316164602 2018-12-20 14:26:14 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316164602 Language learning strategy profile of monolingualand multilingual EFL learners (Lydia Mitits) https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316164608 ·     Monolinguals showed tendency to use affective strategies and metacognitive compensation strategies in comparison to multilinguals who preferred to use beside the affective and metacognitive strategies, the social strategies.  

]]> 2018-12-20 14:26:15 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316164608 https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316164674 -get help from other teachers (languages) 
-respect and value student´s multilingualism

]]> 2018-12-20 14:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316164674 https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316164787 Don't exclude languages from your classroom randomly or without good reason to do so.]]> 2018-12-20 14:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316164787 Most teachers claim that they think that knowing more than one language is important in today's society, but only a few actually make reference to the languages their students speak (Mitits 2017) https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316164950 2018-12-20 14:27:17 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316164950 To translanguage or not to translanguage? https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165104 The study shows the importance of the students being aware of their monolingual bias, in order to use the provided translanguaging space freely and to benefit from their first language knowledge (Rasman 2018: 693). Instead of forbidding the use of any other language than English, the teachers should encourage their students to use all their language repertoire to fulfill the given tasks (Rasman 2018: 690)

]]> 2018-12-20 14:27:42 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165104 https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165109 try to include unusual languages 
(make sure you have students speaking the language)]]> 2018-12-20 14:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165109 Use of Multilingual approach should not be seen as a final product. https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165200  + “The multilingual turn necessarily describes a journey and not a final destination" ( (Dr. Jean Conteh et al., 2014) 

-Alejandro ]]> 2018-12-20 14:28:01 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165200 Introduce students to the idea of translanguaging and the advantages it can have for language aquisition (e.g. teach them strategies to find the meaning of unknown words using their language resources) alexandra_walter1988 https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165249 2018-12-20 14:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165249 https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165324 The amount of languages known by a person is linked to his/ her use of grammar. Students who are multilingual are more focused on grammatical structures, while bilingual students are more focused on the content of an utterance (Dolgunsoz, 2013)]]> 2018-12-20 14:28:27 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165324 https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165340
Give students an opportunity to express the idea in their L1 if they struggle explaining that in the L2

]]> 2018-12-20 14:28:32 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165340 https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165407 The students‘ L1 can be seen as an asset in the EFLC that helps them learn vocabulary, pronounciation, and fluent speaking (Illman & Pietilä 2018: 242-244)]]> 2018-12-20 14:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165407 Textual understanding is transferable between languages (Perge 2017) https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165453 2018-12-20 14:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165453 https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165495 The study showed that teachers and schools need to get to know how to use multilingualism as a resource and as a strategy for the language learning process. (Meganathan, R. 2018)]]> 2018-12-20 14:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165495 https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165521 Media in different languages can be a good way to start multilingualism in your class.]]> 2018-12-20 14:29:03 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165521 https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165791 positive interdependence]]> 2018-12-20 14:29:53 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165791 Our world is multilingual, so don't pretend that we're all monolingual in your classroom. https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165814 2018-12-20 14:29:56 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165814 Ask students what languages they know and how well they know them (e.g. by using the self-assessment grid for language proficiency (level A1-C2) in the CEFR alexandra_walter1988 https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165844 2018-12-20 14:30:01 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165844 https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165959 Make sure that the students are aware of their monolingual bias (Rasman 2018)]]> 2018-12-20 14:30:21 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316165959 Different languages dictionaries https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316166191 provide your students with different languages dictionaries from the library of the school. Or allow them under your control to use their phone. They might understand specific words in their other languages better than they do that in English

]]> 2018-12-20 14:31:01 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316166191 Embrace diversity at school! https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316166323 Inviting fuller identities to unfold in school have an important implication for learning and 
socializing in schools. ]]> 2018-12-20 14:31:25 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316166323 How can we implement translanguaging in the EFLC? https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316166486 2018-12-20 14:31:52 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316166486 https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316166524 Depending on the students' L1 (and speaking skills in other languages), it can be harder or easier for them to adjust to the English sound system/phonology.]]> 2018-12-20 14:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316166524 https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316166567 A good way to integrate the students’ L1 knowledge to learn English seems to be to compare structures, pronunciation patterns, cultures, and vocabulary between the respective languages (Illman & Pietilä 2018: 243).]]> 2018-12-20 14:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316166567 Why is a monolingual approach not that effective as the multilingual approach? https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316166995 2018-12-20 14:33:12 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316166995 Integrating classroom activities that involve translanguaging, and the use of code-switching is suggested by Illman and Pietilä (2018: 239). https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316167093 2018-12-20 14:33:34 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316167093 Not using translanguaging can lead to stigmatization of language learning (Rasman: 2018) https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316167487 2018-12-20 14:34:46 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316167487 According to Ong and Jung (2016) using L1 translations as an accurate measure of L2 word recognition might be problematic, “as (…) (t)here may not always be exact one-to-one semantic correspondences between languages and this may result in L2 lexical fossilization” (p. 14). This negative transfer or “false friends” must be considered in the EFLC. Therefore, I believe it is important for teachers to know all of the student’s native languages and they could e.g. ask students what kind of mnemonics or positive transfer they use from their mother tongue. https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316168106 2018-12-20 14:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316168106 Bilingual class https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316168281 A good method would be to introduce more bilingual classes, like for example science in english-german… or History-Latin… Politic-english… and so on.

]]> 2018-12-20 14:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316168281 Monolingualism better? https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316168382 Do hearing, speaking and reading the same the target language in the classroom give more room to the student to adopt the target language properly. Is not better than confusing students with different languages which they might not have any connection with English (provocative question) 

]]> 2018-12-20 14:37:21 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316168382 https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316168620 How can we engage with language differences for the aim of teaching English in reasonable time and effort, especially if we don't have the slightest knowledge About the student's language? ]]> 2018-12-20 14:37:58 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316168620 Watching a movie in a different language but with English subtitles https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316168869

]]> 2018-12-20 14:38:48 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316168869 Learn multiple languages yourself https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316169536 2018-12-20 14:40:35 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316169536 New knowledge due to interacting with other people in other language varieties: https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316169695 + “Learners build new knowledge in interaction with others, grounded in their existing knowledge and experience. We need to recognise, value and activate this as an important resource for learning. One way is through multilingual activities that value all languages, language varieties and knowledges.” (Dr. Jean Conteh et al., 2014).

]]> 2018-12-20 14:40:58 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316169695 there aren't any! https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316171323 2018-12-20 14:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/alexandra_walter1988/multilingualthu/wish/316171323