Plurilingualism and pluriculturalism in content-based teaching

This publication is targeted at:

• Primary and secondary school teachers working with learners from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds
• Teacher trainers looking for a training kit with very practical resources
• Educational inspectors and decision-makers faced with accommodating diversity in the school curriculum

Educational institutions increasingly face the challenge of accommodating learners from a wide range of linguistic and cultural backgrounds in their classrooms. The training kit presents an innovative way of managing diversity in the classroom by combining plurilingual and pluricultural approaches with content-based instruction. The reader will discover how content-based and plurilingual activities can be linked to several subjects of the curriculum.

The accompanying website presents sample activities which illustrate the approach outlined in the rationale. A primary school teacher will, for example, find an activity suitable for mathematics, sports and/or music and a secondary school teacher of civic, social and political education may be interested in testing out plurilingual comparative text work on the theme of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

For further information and materials relating to this publication, visit the website: http://conbat.ecml.at