Native Language @ ISB

February 21 is International Mother Language Day. ISB High School students have made posters that are now displayed in the MS/HS cafeteria and HS hallways. Below is a small sampling of the posters. Please come to the HS to see more! About 40 languages are represented on the ISB student body.

Perspectives on bilingualism / language maintenance

In this Grade 3 classroom at ISB, children have access to books in their mother tongue.

Thanks Caryn Macky

It’s good to see teachers doing the quiet, small things that send powerful messages to kids. In this example from Grade 3, the teacher sponsors a child in a read-a-thon to read in both her languages. The learning here is multidimensional.

What languages are people learning?

Don’t just speak English, teachers told

Thanks to Avery Udagawa for this article.

Contrasting languages in Ms Macky’s Grade 3

Lots of opportunities for children to talk about how languages work to make meaning.

mother-tongue-in-the-classroom

ISB and the multilingual imagination

Multilingual ‘Let it Go’