education and support for multilingual Children
Education and Support for Multilingual Children
“Practitioners need the empathy, understanding and skills to help children achieve a positive sense of themselves and of others. Our role: to protect and value all children in the setting, foster empathy and provide accurate information about difference to enable children to think critically about and challenge bias.”
Migration in the world means that children grow up in multilingual communities and families. Bilingualism is common for a multicultural family, and it refers to children that speak in two languages at home from birth or by parents’ migration to other countries and children’s learning of language in a new environment. Adults play a very important role in children’s lives, as they are the ones who children look up to and from whom they take an example. Children look up to adults, they hear what adults say and see how they act towards certain values and cultural differences present in Ireland, therefore learning from them and shaping their own opinion based on that. In order to help children discover their own opinion about various ethnic groups etc, they have to face different cases of prejudice and discrimination themselves. Thanks to this, relations between childcare workers and children will be more comfortable as they will be able to help children achieve their potential.
“The Majority of the Gaeltacht population are bilingual. While the Irish language may be the dominant language used by the majority within the Gaeltacht area, Irish language speakers in general may be considered a minority grouping within the national context.”
Importance of Home Language
“Bilingualism is an asset, and the first language has a continuing and significant role in identity, learning and the acquisition of additional languages.”
Child’s first language is very important because it’s most likely the dominant language at home where children communicate with the closest relatives and where
“Practitioners need the empathy, understanding and skills to help children achieve a positive sense of themselves and of others. Our role: to protect and value all children in the setting, foster empathy and provide accurate information about difference to enable children to think critically about and challenge bias.”
Migration in the world means that children grow up in multilingual communities and families. Bilingualism is common for a multicultural family, and it refers to children that speak in two languages at home from birth or by parents’ migration to other countries and children’s learning of language in a new environment. Adults play a very important role in children’s lives, as they are the ones who children look up to and from whom they take an example. Children look up to adults, they hear what adults say and see how they act towards certain values and cultural differences present in Ireland, therefore learning from them and shaping their own opinion based on that. In order to help children discover their own opinion about various ethnic groups etc, they have to face different cases of prejudice and discrimination themselves. Thanks to this, relations between childcare workers and children will be more comfortable as they will be able to help children achieve their potential.
“The Majority of the Gaeltacht population are bilingual. While the Irish language may be the dominant language used by the majority within the Gaeltacht area, Irish language speakers in general may be considered a minority grouping within the national context.”
Importance of Home Language
“Bilingualism is an asset, and the first language has a continuing and significant role in identity, learning and the acquisition of additional languages.”
Child’s first language is very important because it’s most likely the dominant language at home where children communicate with the closest relatives and where