Abstract
An education of bilingual students whose school language is not their mother tongue is a challenging issue. A Kelderash variety of Romani Chib language of Romani national minority can be looked at through a prism of interlingual interference due to its historical connections to several European languages. Presented here this project is aspiring to develop a new approach to education of bilingual students when their bilingualism will be advantageous in educational process. How can mathematics and natural sciences be taught to make learning of these subjects comprehensive, inspiring, and stimulating for learning of bilingual students? How can students work effectively with solving problems, reasoning, and argumentation? This project presents the following approaches: 1) the subjects are presented to students in a bilingual way: in an official school language and in students’ mother tongue; 2) students make a bilingual multimodal digital presentations using video-filming and photography, thus developing their explicit and tacit knowledge of the subjects, their bilingualism and their film literacy. Students work with teachers in small groups, discuss together and use in class not only an official language, but also their mother tongue and in their bilingual video-lessons they are reasoning around new concepts and terminology. Formative meta-analysis has shown that this associated instructional approach stimulates students’ knowledge development, motivation, and joy of studies through bilingual Teaching and Learning instead of a contemporary monolingual education when only an official school language is being used. This approach can be used with different national minorities and bilingual students.
Presenters
Alla Ericson (Alla T. Alzhanova-Ericsson)Senior Lecturer, School of Teacher Education/Department for Teaching and Learning Mathematics and Natural Sciences , Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden Angelina Dimiter-Taikon
Mathematics and Science Kati Dimiter-Taikon
Södertörn University
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
Learner Diversity and Identities
KEYWORDS
Bilingual Education, Multimodality, Film Literacy, Mathematics and Natural Sciences
