Plurilingual Bite-sized Infosheets
In this section, you will find bite-sized infosheets on plurilingualism. They are quick texts designed to help language educators understand and build a foundation for plurilingual approaches in language teaching. The infosheets take only 5-10 minutes to go through. Also, they give a clear overview and provide links to more detailed materials if you want to explore further.
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Comparing Plurilingualism to Multilingualism
While the terms ‘multilingualism’ and ‘plurilingualism’ sound similar, they may mean different things.
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Introduction to Affordances
Affordances refer to meaningful ways of interacting with the environment through perception-in-action (Van Lier, 2002).
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Introduction to Mediation
Mediation is the fourth mode of communication in the CEFR with reception, interaction and production.
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Introduction to Plurilingualism
Plurilingualism is a key concept in language education that highlights the dynamic linguistic repertoire of individual learners
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Introduction to the CEFR
The CEFR (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment) is a reference…
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Plurilingualism: Knowing Students’ Languages
Plurilingual pedagogy is not about knowing all your students’ languages — it’s about valuing them, connecting across them, and creating space…
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Virtual Exchange (VE)
Virtual exchanges (VE) are technology-mediated, classroom-to-classroom, collaborative learning experiences…