Training for participants

For several years, university research teams in education have been developing new intervention practices in early childhood in a multi-ethnic and multilingual context.

Did you know that children learn best in a warm and positive environment, where their cultural and linguistic identity is respected? Did you know that a thorough knowledge of one's own mother tongue is an essential basis for better learning French? How can you integrate these approaches into your environments to best promote the integration of allophone children? In this context, what is the place of books, both as a vehicle for the French language and culture and as a fabulous tool for bringing together a multilingual group?

1. Topics covered during the training :

• Workshops to put the situation into practice and raise awareness of the experience of an allophone child;
• What is the intercultural approach?
• How to help a child learn French better?
• Notions of linguicism;
• Theoretical background on learning a new language (factors and stages of language development, different stages of second language acquisition, interdependence between languages, bilingualism);
• Innovative teaching resources and practices: books, specialised bibliography, documents for parents, internet links, story bags, ELE kits.

2. For whom?

This course is aimed at teachers or specialists, educators, animators or facilitators who work with groups of multilingual children. It can be adapted to the world of early childhood or to school-age children.