Native Language @ ISB

Please join us on Thursday, February 1,  from 7:45-9:15 a.m. in MPB 1 at the top of the Zigag, for a parent workshop called Raising Multilinguals: Unlocking the World with a Family Language Plan. Open to parents in all divisions (ES, MS, and HS), this workshop will focus on maintaining students’ native languages while they also study in English at ISB. Join us! More details are here.

Perspectives on bilingualism / language maintenance

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.

Saving the mother tongues of Thailand

Timor Leste mother tongue programs

Don’t just speak English, teachers told

Thanks to Avery Udagawa for this article.

February 21st 2017

Realising our children’s potentials

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PEACE DAY – 2016