Tag: languages
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A Framework to reflect on Honouring All Languages
A Framework This framework provides an entry point to discussing, sharing, and reflecting on practices that honour all languages in our classrooms and communities. Click on the interactive elements below to read some examples of practices that may be relevant to your community context. What practices might you add to these? How could you use…
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Adopting an Inquiry Stance in Honouring All Languages
Photo credit: danielle-macinnes-iulgi9pwetu-unsplash How can I get started? I had a lovely conversation with a fellow teacher recently. Someone who is passionate about honouring all languages in classrooms and communities. A teacher who works tirelessly to gather resources to be able to meet multilingual learners where they are, so they can best access all learning…
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“Oh, you know what I mean….”
Photo by Colin Maynard on Unsplash Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides. Rita Mae Brown Why language choice really matters and what it means for us in our communities. Take a look at the collection of images above. What impressions do these conjure up for you? What emotions or senses are…
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Language Matters: From ‘being inclusive’ to ‘honouring’ all languages
Why we need to go beyond being inclusive to honouring. There are about 7,000 languages in the world. Being multilingual is now the ‘norm’ for the majority of the world’s population. It is more ‘typical’ for learners and their families to have knowledge of more than one language than to come from a strictly monolingual…
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What’s in a name?
I miss the puzzle of learning names. As a School Principal I used to love greeting families, learning student names and being part of the early morning routine welcoming everyone into school. I struggled, I got names wrong, I mixed up pronunciation, put the accent in the wrong place and from time to time muddled…
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Multilingual Voices
We often hear and use phrases like ‘student agency’, ‘student voice’, ‘student action’ in our daily conversations about learning. I continue to be fascinated about language acquisition and growth; the factors that accelerate and foster this, and those that inhibit language development. In an international school community, in fact I would argue in the majority…
Jenny O'Fee 