Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Bilingualism
- Globalization
- Diversity in school
- The challenge for
educators : all rights of
citizens are respected
- Mother Tongue
Development
- 1.Bilingualism has positive
effects on children’s
linguistic
- Understanding of
language and how
to use it effectively
- Practice in processing language
- flexibility in their thinking
- 2. The level of
children’s mother tongue is a
strong predictor of their second
language
- Transfer acrosss languages
- 3. Spending instructional time through a
minority language does not
hurt children’s academic development
- When children are learning through a
minority language they are not only
learning this language they are learning
concepts and intellectual skills that are
equally relevant to their ability to
function in the majority language
- 4. Children can lose their ability to
communicate in their mother tongue
within 2-3 years of starting school
- 5. Teachers must be proactive to
affirm children’s linguistic
identity
- 6. Every child has the right
to have their talents
recognized and promoted
within the school