Teaching Multilingual Children

Next Workshop	To be announced
Time	To be announced
Location	Zürich
A look at multilingual children in the classroom and the roles of teachers, parents and community.

Topics include:

-	New research in education, linguistics, neurology and ESL/EFL fields	-	Language goals
-	Discussion / debate on different researchers' findings	-	Facilitating language acquisition in children
-	How multilingual children should be treated in the classroom	-	Tools and activities teachers can use

Background information:
Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, Ed.M from Harvard University in Education; PhD in progress in "Neuo-Education” (brain-based learning); Professor of Education at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, Head of Teacher Training, Director of the Educational Development Center; author: Raising Multilingual Children: Language Acquisition and Children (2001); The Multilingual Mind: Questions by, for and about people living with many languages (2003); Multilingualism Across the Lifespan (in progress, due out in 2007); mother of three multilingual children.

Format:
One half day session.

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