As an instructor, I should learn more about other languages and cultures and encourage students and provide anything needed so a student with a different language can understand for enhancing their knowledge
Excellent dive. Thank you.
It is fascinating to learn about language and literacy as describe in this session. The idea of using inter communication instead of cross communication is an interstin concept. Cross communication presents itself as talking against and doesn't affirm or validate differences in communication.
Allow students to use their "mother tounge" to help them become literate in the English language.
Second language of a student matters and contributes to understanding the subject they are learningand thank you for highlighting it!
This has been my favorite topic thus far.
Being a multilingual person myself, I think it is very important that we encourage students to access their mother tongue when they learn a new language since it helps them to earn easier. As a matter of fact, being multilingual, helps students to process several languages that helps their brain development. According to studies from Penn State University. students’ cognitive ability increases due to bilingualism. Language and literacy are interdependent. Literacy is the ability to use the language. This is something to keep in mind and focus on all students regardless their linguistic background.
This series has been helpful to me to better understand cultural differences and how ones "Mother Tongue" figures into it.
Students have to literate at both literacy and languag. This will help them to be successful in the learning environment, but they also have to understand that literacy in the English language is needed in some fields of expertise that they are working in.
Encouraging "Mother Tongue" the learner masters the learning objective while improving comprhension of English and expanding of their first language. The student at this point can be given the chance to learn from other cultures when I assign a group task.
Language ("Mother Tongue") is a part of ones race
Students should develop both literacy and language skills. Some students learning English may have highly-developed literary skills that do not immediately show up.
Each student has his own dialect. I have a southern drawl myself. If our cultures clash we must work toward understanding
