Twelfth International Conference on e-Learning & Innovative Pedagogies

Abstract

Past trials of the Multilingual Literacy Approach have demonstrated that knowledge acquired through the learning of one language is a valuable resource in the learning of a second language. This is a reciprocal relationship that can improve the learning of both languages through carefully selected pedagogical practices and collaborative programs. Working with this understanding, language and classroom teachers can design a range of teaching and learning sequences that build learner agency and improve language and literacy outcomes. This year teachers at Open Access College are collaboratively designing and implementing Multilingual Literacy with their partnership schools. Through these partnerships teachers are positioned as learners, modelling how to learn languages and become literate shoulder to shoulder with kids and learn how to embed languages across learning areas. This workshop will present a background into the MLL Approach and the research that supports it. Demonstrations of the pedagogical practices and examples of student learning will provide insight into how you can design and implement an MLL program.