November 3, 2023
by Mary Pat
Comments Off on Does Your Classroom Feature These 8 Components Of A Positive Classroom Climate for Multilingual Children?
Last post in this series on how to support multilingual children in settings from day care to preschool to school! This time we are off to Spain where Khalfaoui and colleagues looked at 14 studies to get a handle on what … Continue reading
November 3, 2023
by Mary Pat
Comments Off on 5 Ways To Support Multilingual Children To Develop The School Language
Langaloo and colleagues in Holland looked at 31 studies of teacher-child interaction with multilingual children and how they compare with teacher-child interactions with monolingual children. Essentially, they conclude that where children have low skill levels in the school language, teachers … Continue reading
November 3, 2023
by Mary Pat
Comments Off on How to support multilingual children in day care
In day-care settings, De Houwer and Pascal (2021) recommend that educators actively value all of the home languages. This doesn’t mean you have to know all of the languages or teach these languages in the day care setting. It does … Continue reading
November 3, 2023
by Mary Pat
Comments Off on 4 Ways to More Culturally Sensitive Early Childhood Education
You know that expression : if you can’t see it, you can’t be it? I think it’s worth thinking about that in relation to our speech and language therapy clinics and in education settings too. I’ve been reading some studies looking … Continue reading