Here are some findings from our recent language survey in a Grade 4 class:

 

• Of the 19 children in the class, 3 are monolingual, 14 are bilingual and 2 are trilingual
• 13 different languages are spoken and 12 are written
• more than half the bilingual children would like to be able to sometimes use their mother tongue (speaking and writing) to help their learning
• English grammar is the number one identified difficulty in learning English
• Of the 16 bilingual/trilingual children, 15 think that learning their mother tongue is either important (6) or very important (9)