Embracing Language Diversity by chisab

Intro

chisab72 — 2018-09-24 18:49:12 UTC

Module 1

chisab72 — 2018-09-24 18:51:37 UTC

Let's remember!

Module 1 - Bilingualism and second learning acquisition

chisab72 — 2018-09-25 06:06:49 UTC

Module 1 - Common underlying proficiency

chisab72 — 2018-09-25 06:08:30 UTC

Module 1 - Language awareness

chisab72 — 2018-09-25 06:12:36 UTC

EDL 2018 in our school

chisab72 — 2018-09-25 06:14:18 UTC

Here is the display we are setting in our school to celebrate the EDL, we are receiving postcards from several European countries. As soon as we have more I will update the photo.

About me

chisab72 — 2018-09-25 06:16:37 UTC

I'm a teacher of English in "L. Da Vinci and O. Nucula" school in terni. The school is situated in the city centre and has 900 students. We have a small percentage of students of different mother tongue and we try to involve all the classing in knowing more about their culture and languages especially at the beginning of a new school year. t

Module 1 - Reflecting on language awareness

chisab72 — 2018-09-26 16:09:50 UTC

Module 1

chisab72 — 2018-09-26 16:16:17 UTC

It's been some years now that I start the school year celebrating the EDL sending postcards to other schools in Europe and carrying out activities through an etwinning projects. So we write postcards both in Italian and in English and when we get them from the other countries we try to read the other languages. Some of students speak some of the languages the cards are written and this gives me the chance to let them speak a little bit in their language and also to talk about their culture. In this way they are not ashamed of their origin and they talk about their tradition more openly and the Italian students show interest in what they tell us. I think it works quite well, all the students feel more confident about learning other languages and develop a better welcoming attitude towards students coming from different countries.

Module 1

chisab72 — 2018-09-30 14:59:55 UTC

Being able to communicate in our society nowadays is really something nobody can do without. To develop this competence I think it is necessary to know more than one language and also to acquire language awareness. Since it refers to the development in learners of consciousness and sensitivity to forms and functions of a language I think that this is related also to communication competence because being aware of how a language works helps to communicate. The more we are aware of how our language and some others work the more we will be able to understand the others when they speak, the more we will able to communicate also because we (both teachers and learners) will be more affectively involved.

Module 1 - EDL and EDINA

chisab72 — 2018-09-30 15:07:54 UTC

http://ec.europa.eu/programmes/erasmus-plus/projects/eplus-project-details/#project/4547398e-a6a2-419d-b6b9-be2616d054c2

https://edl.ecml.at/Home/tabid/1455/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

Module 1 - additional resources

chisab72 — 2018-09-30 15:25:12 UTC

Module 2

chisab72 — 2018-10-04 15:41:58 UTC

Module 2

chisab72 — 2018-10-04 16:04:32 UTC

Linguistic diversity and bilingualism

Module 2

chisab72 — 2018-10-04 16:05:31 UTC

Healthy Linguistic Diet

Module 2

chisab72 — 2018-10-04 16:10:56 UTC

Linguistic diversity and bilingualism - padlet
I strongly agree with Diana's point of view and I think it is very important to take into account the learners' languages. As I teach English I tend to use it as much as I can during my lessons even though I use Italian when they seem to have difficulties. There are some students in my class who speak other languages than Italian and I sometimes ask them to say something in their language and I always tell all the class that they are lucky because when you know more than one language learning another one is easy. It is not very much I know but I hope I will be able to do more in my future lessons.

Module 2

chisab72 — 2018-10-04 16:16:38 UTC

The benefits of embracing linguistic diversity

Module 2

chisab72 — 2018-10-04 16:20:18 UTC

Module 2

chisab72 — 2018-10-04 16:28:32 UTC

Establishing a classroom environment that embraces linguistic diversity

Module 2

chisab72 — 2018-10-04 16:31:50 UTC

Module 2

chisab72 — 2018-10-07 06:01:24 UTC

Implementing classroom activities

Module 2 Implementing classroom activities

chisab72 — 2018-10-07 06:07:28 UTC

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

Module 3

chisab72 — 2018-10-09 10:52:51 UTC

Module 3 - Experience with CLIL activities

chisab72 — 2018-10-12 14:22:28 UTC

I teach English to 11-14 year-old students and I sometimes have CLIL activities with them together with some other colleagues (Art, Science, History). Last year I involved my students in a CLIL project and they created presentation on Science experiments. It worked really very well especially because we included ICT in it. Students liked the idea of using English with another teacher and also doing some Science with the teacher of English. We could built a good relationships between teachers and students and we, teachers, learnt to work together as we had to plan activities in both subjects. This really worked very well. Students found it a little bit difficult because we used the language to talk about something specific but they learnt really fast!

Module 3 - CLIL

chisab72 — 2018-10-12 14:27:26 UTC

Module 3 - Challenges

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Module 3 - CLIL experiences

chisab72 — 2018-10-12 14:51:01 UTC

Last year we involved 25 11 year old students in a CLIL pilot project and they loved doing it. They worked together with the teacher of Science and English and created a presentation of an experiment on DNA they made in class both using Italian and English. We gave them some material in both languages and they had to read, then they had to watch a video always in both languages so they had to watch and listen and at last they had to write and compare they ideas in pairs and small groups so they had to write and speak. We also shared this work with Finnish students of an etwinning project and got reactions from them and gave our feedback too. It was really a great experience.

Module 3 - Examples of CLIL activities

chisab72 — 2018-10-15 14:15:43 UTC

Module 3 - CLIL game

chisab72 — 2018-10-15 14:23:52 UTC

https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/95f1a436-a654-4a99-9b4b-5b0da67779ef

Module 4

chisab72 — 2018-10-16 06:14:32 UTC

Module 4 - Passport of languages - video

chisab72 — 2018-10-16 06:20:16 UTC

Module 4 - Passport of languages template

chisab72 — 2018-10-16 06:20:42 UTC

Module 4 - Visual dictionary an activity in an etwinning project.

chisab72 — 2018-10-16 06:28:49 UTC

Some years ago I had and etwinning project to celebrate the European Day of Languages and we decided to translate and draw 10 words in the languages of the schools in the project. Among these there were Italian, English and French, the languages my students use at school, there was also Greek and Finnish. In that class there was a students whose grandparents are Greek and he was really very happy and of course involved in the activity because he thought the whole class, the teacher included, how to pronounce the words. This activity helped him to open up himself and gave him importance, he became more self-confident and the whole class had the experience of learning a different language even though only some words. below you can find the visual dictionary we created.

Module 4 - European Language Label

chisab72 — 2018-10-16 06:45:19 UTC

http://ec.europa.eu/education/initiatives/label/label_public/index.cfm?fuseaction=project_award&award_id=9681

Module 4 - My Learning Scenario

chisab72 — 2018-10-21 08:31:26 UTC

Module 4 - My learning designer

chisab72 — 2018-10-21 08:36:41 UTC