Supporting Multilingualism - Family Education Seminar & Workshop

As a multilingual school, we daily see the benefits of multilingualism, and also the challenges that families face in strengthening and maintaining multiple languages at home.

In this seminar we will share tools for encouraging and strengthening the language at home. Focus will be on language learning of children and teens, but much of the information will be useful for adult learners as well.

This seminar is built to serve also those who do not share the language their children are speaking - finding ways to support their child's learning.

You will learn about

- Global research about multilingualism

- How do you learn and maintain a language? In short: exposure, quantity and consistency!

- Myths about multilingualism

- Language motivation and identity: ~for the whole family ~for the parents/guardians ~for the child

After sharing some information, we will continue discussions in smaller facilitated groups - sharing tips, exploring language learning methods and finding ways to test our just gained knowledge of multilingualism in our day-to-day lives.