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Language

in the PYP
By Jeremie Anson
CONFIDENT
COMMUNICATORS
Express Identity Developing International Becoming Literate
Mindedness

Learn to affirm and promote While literature is a source of


Multilingualism is crucial in
your language and cultural
building international- pleasure and provocation, it
backgrounds.
All students have a unique mindedness, as it gives insight also invites students into new
language profile. to perspectives of the self and was of making meaning.
others.
CONFIDENT
COMMUNICATORS
Becoming Effective
Communicating
Inquirers

Language allows us to inquire and


collaborate. Through language, Through language, students
conceptual understandings are communicate their ideas, and
developed, and is the means to
understandings to the local and
reflect on ideas, knowledge, and
experiences. wider community.
THE LANGUAGE LEARNING
COMMUNITY

Every PYP learning community has a unique language


profile as the students in the school all shape the school’s
perspectives, communication methods and beliefs. It even
shapes the way members act and interract.
THE VITAL ROLE OF PARENTS

The use of family languages in a school supports students. It


allows students to quickly engage by helping them to access
their prior knowledge.

Parents’ vital role is to discuss learning at home with


students, deepening the understanding of the student. It also
enables connections among the two languages involved.
BECOMING A MULTILINGUAL
LEARNING COMMUNITY
Being open-minded and Being open-minded and
1 caring communicators 4 caring communicators

Create an environment Ensuring that students have

2 where students use their


home language with pride.
5 exposure to multiple
languages at school.
All encourage each other to Promote language learning as a
3 make connections between 6 means to build and strengthen
languages. intercultural relationships.
WHERE CAN WE IMPLEMENT THIS?

Learning Displays, games, poety, performances, texts,


explorations of similarities and differences between
languages, learning experiences within a unit of inquiry

When planning for the programme of inquiry, we should see


where we can implement these things.
WHERE CAN WE IMPLEMENT THIS?
Learning Additional Languages

The PYP requires language learning from the age of 7,


which supports international-mindedness. This language may
be the language of the host communtiy, or a language that is
part of the curriculum.

Bilingual and dual-language schools (such as us) don’t need


to add another langunage to the
curriculum.
Students of unique backgrounds

Some students come from a background where


they won’t be able to speak the main language of
instruction.

Being immersed in this can be a lot to take in,


and it’s the school’s job to take care of those
student’s needs. We must celebrate that student’s
learner profile, too.
Define “Translanguaging”

When students are using a language that is not their first


language, they will sometimes draw on prior knowledge
and make connections with their mother tongue (which
could be similarities or even differences) to establish
meaning, and usually also offers a learning opportunity.
How about you?

We are all language learners in this room. Is there a time


where you used translanguaging to establish meaning?
Having available literacy in the school of
multiple languages
Literacy is enjoyable, but allows students to
individually make connections and implicitly
establish meaning, and understand the
multilingual nature of our world.

Havning the same book in multiple languages.

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