ECED 407 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9.5: Ice Pop, Microsoft Powerpoint, Kid Pix
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Lotherington, h. , holland, m. , sotoudeh, s. , & zentena, m. (2008). Project-based community language learning: three narratives of multilingual story-telling in early childhood education. Each teacher describes the practices and technologies she or he has used in class projects to incorporate multilingualism into literacy teaching. Toward a project-based model of language and literacy education. As cummins has shown (1979, 1981, 1991, 2000), children learn a second language more effectively in situations where their first language (l1) is supported. Therefore, our research proposes a project-based model to provide access to multilingual exposure and learning. This model acknowledges and works with the linguistic heterogeneity of the urban classroom, where the inclusion of a third language in teaching would not adequately respond to all students" needs. Cortazzi and jin (2007) define as learning from, about and through stories, and learning through reflecting on the experience of narrating and the narrating of experience" (p. 645) I promote children"s home languages in my classroom every day.
