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- Title
Teaching for Linguistic Diversity.
- Authors
Moloney, Robyn
- Abstract
Literacy education is increasingly aware of the potential of classroom linguistic diversity to enrich all students' learning. This article profiles a recent national collection, in primary and secondary schools, of practical teaching ideas which harness the power of linguistic diversity as a teaching resource. Many of these teaching ideas speak to the concerns of middle years literacy education, in their inclusion of students' social and personal identities and their cultural and linguistic knowledge. The article underlines the need for teachers to know the linguistic makeup of students and families, to critically interrogate their own knowledge base, and to explore the global contributions to our knowledge disciplines. The teaching ideas harnessing linguistic diversity illustrate the approach in the areas of Mathematics, Science, Technologies, Language and Literacy, Humanities and Social Sciences, Physical Education, and The Arts. The literacy of linguistic diversity may include crosslanguage inquiry and play, and many types of listening, speaking, singing, writing, reading, and designing within the creative modes of an emerging multilingual multiliteracy.
- Subjects
LITERACY education; LINGUISTICS; TEACHING; SECONDARY schools; MATHEMATICS
- Publication
Literacy Learning: The Middle Years, 2024, Vol 32, Issue 2, p15
- ISSN
1320-5692
- Publication type
Article