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Fostering Multilingual Schools

Promoting multilingual education in schools brings numerous advantages for all students, including the chance to learn additional languages and gain a deeper understanding of global cultures.

Fostering Multilingual Schools

Fostering Multilingual Schools

Parental Relationship

Parents to continue to foster their L1 within their homes
Promoting parental sense of 'control' over their child's learning
Increasing parents ability to help their child with their learning
Foster relationship between student and family
Increase parental involvement with school

Teacher Strategies

Opportunities to interact in English
Supportive language and feedback
Students to use L1 to teach new foreign words to their classmates.
Using L1 to increase parental engagement
Using outside agencies as a tool to connect the class to the broader community.
Planning and providing instruction on the basis of children's existing competencies.
Student created labels in their L1 for common classroom areas and materials
Creating dual Language Assignments
Assignments that allow students to compare their L1 to L2
Opportunities to work with same language partners/groups
Creating journals in first language

Benefits to ELL Learner

Understanding of their family values
Preservation of cultural identity
Affirms their sense of self
Facilitates the flow of knowledge
Enables them to draw on their strengths
Builds Self Confidence
Enhances their L2 Learning
L1 provides a foundation for L2

Barriers to English language learning

Existing learning exceptionality
Gaps in prior schooling
Personality
Prior experience with English
Level of L1 development
Migration experience
Planned move vs. Traumatic experience
Acculturation process
Some students take longer to adapt even within same families

Benefits to Other Students

Fostering a love of learning
Participation as Global citizens
Understanding of the world around them
Knowledge of other cultures
Opportunities to also learn another language

Broader Impact

Preparing students for new global realities
Multilingualism creates workers that are skilled in language and problem solving skills
language skills and conceptual knowledge are transferable
Preparing Canadian students for a global market
Building Schools with capacity and opportunity
Diverse learners are now the norm not the exception (50% of students are now non English language speaking

Model School Community

Affirms linguistic and cultural capital
Welcome environment with visible multilingual signs and welcome team
Provides community and parents opportunities to work together
Provides ALL teachers with opportunities for learning to tap into the multilingual capital of their school community
Strong/Supported ELL/ELD programs
Leadership fosters Multilingual School Community
Connects with outside agencies for support
Community Centres and Ethnocultural agencies
Settlement Agencies
Public Libraries