Monday, February 18, 2008

Talking Points #2 - Virginia Collier

Context / Premise
  • multilingual
  • confidence
  • intercultural conflicts
  • caregiver speech
  • academic language
  • second language acquistition
  • language
  • culture
  • four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, writing)
  • bilingual classroom
  • community
  • code-switching
  • balance

Arguement

Teaching multilingual children is an extremely challenging yet unbelievably rewarding task that is obtained at a high level through correctly balancing the two major variables of language and culture.

Evidence

"Your goal is to help your students master the language udesin formal schooling (academic language proficiency) and at the same time give your students language tools for use in all contexts in the outside world."

"Code-switching is appropriate in creative, informal, casual, and intimate speech among bilingual speakers."

"When two languages are used in the school curriculum, the teacher should plan the precise times to use each language. Bilingual pedagogy research indicates that the teacher should clearly seperate the two languages of instruction."

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