The category game, known as Stadt–Land-Fluß in German, in Italiano si chiama nome, cose città en français c’est le jeu du baccalauréat, ou jeu du bac, ou petit bac – En español es el juego tutti frutti o también conocido como Stop, Alto el Lápiz, Chanton, Pare carrito, Autopencil, Bachillerato y Basta – y em […]
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Language use in multilingual families during lockdown
When we all went into our first lockdown due to COVID19 last year, I published a short video for multilingual families who do NOT speak the community language at home, about how to keep up with the school or community languages during lockdown. Especially for very young children who maybe just started daycare, spending more time […]
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En parlant du bilinguisme avec François Grosjean (podcast Tea with KBC)
– Interview with Prof. em François Grosjean par Kathryn Baxter from Tea with KBC (you can find the English transcript of this interview here) Dans un interview Prof. em. François Grosjean avec Kathryn Baxter (podcast Tea with KBC) au sujet du bilinguisme, il partage son parcours personnel, ses théories, les principes, la définition, sa mission. Même si […]
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Language Portrait
Originally developed as a language awareness exercise in education, the Language Portrait is now increasingly used as a research tool investigating how speakers themselves experience and interpret their heteroglossic practices and repertoires (Busch 2018). It allows a multimodal approach as it combines discursive and presentational forms of symbolization (Langer 1948). By providing a body […]
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Werden aus mehrsprachigen Kindern automatisch mehrsprachige Erwachsene?
Mehrsprachigkeit ist in aller Munde. Gab es bis vor kurzem noch viele Vorbehalte gegen eine mehrsprachige Erziehung – man befürchtete, dass Kinder so weder die eine noch die andere Sprache richtig beherrschen würden –, so weiß man inzwischen, dass Mehrsprachigkeit allerlei positive Effekte auf das Sprechen, Denken und Handeln hat.
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