Multilingualism and Multiliteracies
Posted on | June 28, 2009 | No Comments
Multilingualism – Ability of a person to speak in a language other than their native language with a degree of fluency (Gordon & browne, 2004)
Simultaneous acquisition happens when a child is exposeed to two languages from birth.
Successive acquisition occurs as a child with one language now enters the world of a second language.
Multilingualism development:
- The preproduction or silent stageL respond to language by listening to or “take in”
- Early production stage have limited vocalization and growing comprehension
- Expansion of production stage increased comprehension and the ability to speak simple sentences
Teacher’s role:
- Understand the whole child
- Appreciate the countless ways in which children learn and do not rely on a set curriculum for teaching oral language or literacy
- Be sensitive and encourage the child to communicate in his own way during social interaction with other children
- Involve their parents in activities and understand the different learning styles each child may have
Guidelines for teaching children who speak other langugages:
- Understand how children learn a second language
- Make a plan for the use of the two languages
- Accept individual differences
- Support children’s attempts to communicated
- Maintain an additive philosophy
- Provide a stimulating, active and diverse environment
- Use informal observations to guide the planning of activities
- Find out about the family
- Provide accepting classroom climate
Multiliteracies is a multiple form of knowledge including prints, images, videos, combination forms in digital context.
Category: Language and Literacy for Young Children
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