Don’t just speak English, teachers told Thanks to Avery Udagawa for this article.
February 14, 2017
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Category Archives: Native Language and Education
February 6, 2017
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International Mother Tongue Day
February 21st 2017
September 27, 2016
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Australian series on the importance of mother tongue education
Realising our children’s potentials
September 21, 2016
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Mother Tongue ideas for the classroom
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September 21, 2016
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Mother Tongue use at ISB
PEACE DAY – 2016
September 6, 2016
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Kids in class without access to their mother tongue
The importance of mother tongue use in class
May 17, 2016
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Draft language survey: a class in Grade 4
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 … Continue reading
April 8, 2016
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Another paper at the same conference: Perth WA
C9 Bilingual tools to enhance EAL/D students’ language development55 minutes Mallika Das and Abby Saleh In this presentation we will discuss two teacher-initiated bilingual reading programs conducted in school where 99% and 97% of the school population are from CALD … Continue reading
April 8, 2016
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Recent research: paper being presented this month in Perth WA
Dr Androula Yiakoumetti, Oxford Brookes University Dr Androula Yiakoumetti is an applied linguist whose research focuses on regional and social variation within linguistic systems and, more specifically, on the implications of such variation for education. She is interested in sociolinguistic … Continue reading
March 25, 2016
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The mother tongue battle in Hong Kong
Cantonese or Putonghua / Mandarin for Hong Kong schools?