External Resources for Plurilingualism
What Can You Find?
In this section, you will find a series of external resources to help you develop a practical understanding of the theoretical framework, pedagogical tools, and concepts related to plurilingualism. This resource bank includes:
- Introductory videos, guides, sources, and links from leading institutions such as the Council of Europe (the CEFR), the Plurilingual Lab at McGill University, the Goethe Institut, as well as the LINCDIRE project.
- Material on assessing plurilingual competence and a selection of digital tools that can support a plurilingual learning environment.
The resources, available for various instructional levels and in multiple languages, delve into specific pedagogical practices like translanguaging, mediation, cross-cultural analysis, and cross-linguistic analysis.
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Les approches plurilingues dans les écoles de langue française de l’Ontario
Le document met en lumière la place des approches plurilingues dans les écoles de langue française de l’Ontario en présentant à la fois des éléments contextuels saillants, des résultats de recherche et des exemples de pratiques avec quelques témoignages.
Plurilingualism: cultural and linguistic diversity (Spanish)
This pedagogic resource includes 5 sessions with multiple plurilingual activities to incorporate in teaching Spanish as a foreign language in primary school. These activities are contained in a master’s level thesis from the University of Oviedo, submitted in 2021, in Spain.
Plurilingual assessment
This resource is a workshop on plurilingual assessment designed for teachers, facilitated by Belinda Steinhuber. The resource includes a handout with 6 example language tasks/exams that assess students’ plurilingualism, a video workshop, presentation slides, and a background reading.
Plurilingual Guide
This guide is useful for teachers who are new to plurilingual pedagogies. It provides a brief overview of what plurilingualism is, the theory behind it and the pedagogical strategies it uses. It then provides ten sample scenarios that could be easily implemented in your language classroom
Plurilingualism Resource Map
A comprehensive eBook that reviews the theory behind plurilingualism, before providing context on language teaching across languages at the sentence and text level. Focused on how home languages can benefit learning of English, but principles transferable to other language teaching contexts. Includes example lessons using a plurilingual approach.
TEMPLATE Project
The project has downloadable, ready-made one-off plurilingual scenarios for multilingual learning. The project has three pillars: technology, plurilingualism and teaching.
Le Diamant Langagier
This video is a multimedia presentation of the conceptual tool Le Diamant langagier (The Language Diamond) by Nathalie Auger from the LHUMAIN Research Unit at the University of Montpellier. Each facet of the language diamond is illustrated with testimonials from teachers and/or students, examples of classroom practices, and references to several associated resources.
Native Teachers can’t Fix Pronunciation – John Lewis
From Teacher Talking Time: a podcast for language teachers. John Levis shares his thoughts on language education, pronunciation, intelligibility and native language teachers.
Plurilingualism LINCDIRE Video
This short, introductory tutorial is a good start for users who are new to the plurilingual approach. It provides an introduction to plurlingualism and its benefits in the classroom. From the LINCDIRE Project on plurilingualism.
Plurilingual Shift in Language Education
YouTube Playlist with an intro to plurilingualism, along with 5 plurilingual strategies to be used in the language classroom
Stop apologizing for being multilingual – Angelica Galante
From Teacher Talking Time: a podcast for language teachers. Dr. Angelica Galante shares her thoughts on plurilingual and pluricultural competence and the practical applications of plurilingualism in education.
What is Plurilingualism Video Capsule – CoE
This video from the Council of Europe showcases plurilingual strategies used by three educators from Lausanne, Australia, and Lyon in their teaching.
Building on plurilingualism: Activities
This page from the European Centre for Modern Languages website gives simple examples for how you could incorporate plurilingualism into tasks you are likely already using in your language classroom. The page provides general ideas and then specific case studies to implement.
Didactic Units using the plurilingual approach
Twenty-six content-based didactic units in English, French and Spanish to be used in classrooms combining plurilingual and pluricultural approaches with content-based instruction.
Les approches plurilingues (French)
Ce site Web vise à informer et à outiller les membres du personnel enseignant, les directions d’écoles, les conseillères et les conseillers pédagogiques et les nombreux acteurs et actrices clés en éducation qui travaillent au sein des écoles de langue française de l’Ontario à la mise en œuvre de pratiques pédagogiques qui valorisent la diversité linguistique et culturelle.
Lost Wor(l)ds: Multilingualism in Schools
The project takes its name from and is an extension of ‘The Lost Words: A Spell Book’ by Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris, which focuses on reconnecting children with nature and inspiring them to engage with the magic of language. It contains many multilingual activities contributed by different schools.
NFLC e-Learning Portal
The NFLC e-Learning Portal houses an expansive catalogue of language learning and assessment materials: over 7,000 items in dozens of languages and dialects. For easy searching, items in the Portal are tagged by language, difficulty level, modality, topic, type, learning objective, and publication year.
PluriMobil
PluriMobil is a teaching tool that offers activities and materials to support the plurilingual and intercultural learning of students for the phases before, during and after a mobility activity. This tool can be adapted to multiple mobility projects across all educational levels.
Pluri-L AppEL AppEALS (French)
Le laboratoire de recherche pour une Approche d’Enseignement des Langues Plurilingue (AppEL Pluri-L) a pour vocation de développer et de promouvoir l’approche plurilingue en enseignement des langues.