Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation › Professional
Description
Many learners in our classrooms speak a different language or type of language outside school to the languages used at school. This means they have experience in multilingual communication, and have developed a range of multilingual competencies already. What are these competencies, and how can we build on these in our classrooms? In this workshop, we will introduce you to a visual methodology, language mapping, as a way of uncovering learners’ multilingual experiences. Language mapping is a technique that helps learners uncover their own lived multilingual experiences and to represent and talk about these using their own words and descriptions. The workshop is relevant to teachers interested in learning more about their learners’ multilingual backgrounds. We will show you how and why language mapping works and how to integrate this exercise in a lesson. Of course, you will try your hand at creating your own language map!