English Tips for Hosting and Visiting Language Teachers - Flipbook - Page 3
Embed and celebrate languages as a school community
Y Ensure that the school community is informed
about your participation in Say Yes to
Languages!
Y Encourage parents/guardians to come to the
school to read, tell stories, talk about their
languages
Y Designate a space in the school to promote
participation in the module and display some
of the work created
Y Provide opportunities for pupils to showcase
their learning and use their various different
languages at school events (assembly, culture
days, international week, end of year
graduations, daily announcements,
parents’/grandparents’ day, etc.)
Y Share your pupils’ achievements via the
school’s social platforms, newsletters, and
local media
Y Allow and encourage pupils to use all of the
languages they know both inside and outside
of the classroom
Y Celebrate European Day of Languages
Y Involve parents/guardians to ensure that they
support the pupils’ learning at home (fill in the
sections of the passport together; have
conversations about different home
languages they might use; try to learn the
new languages together; for pupils in 6th
class, have conversations about subject
choices in secondary school)
Y Reinforce and re-use the new language
incidentally throughout the week and in other
subjects, to support the learning
Y Consider how the integrated languages
curriculum can support all the languages of
the classroom. See Post-Primary Languages
Ireland | PPLI: Primary Intercultural Guidelines
for ideas and examples
Y Consider adding books in the different
languages spoken by the school community
to the school library
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