Tag: plurilingualism
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Potowski’s TedTalk “No Child Left Monolingual”
Watch Kim Potowski’s TedTalk “No Child Left Monolingual” here: Kim Potowski’s TedTalk “No Child Left Monolingual” is undoubtedly a highlight among some of the TedTalks on bilingualism and multilingualism, since it includes very interesting data that many do not know of. The first shocking information in this talk is that 65% of the world’s population…
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Multilingualism in the Class
In recent years, the concept of multilingualism has grown increasingly in the Council of Europe as well as among several institutions and schools. This is causing a shift in the approach to language learning and teaching in the classrooms, in which the goal is no longer to achieve “mastery” in the foreign language(s) but to…
The Acquisition of English As a Foreign Language in Bilingual and Multilingual Contexts 