A framework of reference for pluralistic approaches

Teaching and learning materials

This database aims to facilitate teachers access to educational materials relevant to pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures. This way they will be able to help learners appropriate their knowledge, attitudes, and skills as described in the lists of descriptors. The materials, available to download, can be selected according to various criteria: objectives (as expressed by the FREPA descriptors), levels of training, thematic areas, the type of pluralistic approach, and the language of instruction.

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A vos marques, prêts, écrivez !

Publication year: 2011

Students will discover different writing systems and their evolution from their creation to nowadays...

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Languages: English , Greek , French , German

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Taalfamilies

Publication year: 2011

The teacher makes copies of worksheets 5.2.1 and 5.2.2. The students are asked to divide the words which show similarities into three groups.

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Languages: English

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Sprog og Samfund

Publication year: 2011

University teacher Hans Arndt introduces over 7 pages the subject of “Language and society” and proposes different exercises.

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Languages: English

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A la découverte de notre quartier

Publication year: 2011

Students have to work in groups to create posters, models, etc. that represent the main streets of their town/district area including their linguistic/cultural diversity and then they have to present it to another class in another linguistic and geographical context.

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Languages: French

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A la découverte de mon quartier

Publication year: 2011

Students have to work in groups to create posters, models, etc. that represent the main streets of their town/district area including their linguistic/cultural diversity and then they have to present it to another class in another linguistic and geographical context.



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Languages: French

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Qué ""raro"" hablas!

Publication year: 2012

The students are given certain situations where they have to empathise with foreigners who don't speak the language and try to find other ways to communicate.

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Languages: English

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Europanto

Publication year: 2013

The idea of "Europanto" is that of a mix of the mostly spoken European languages. It was introduced by Diego Marani, a translator of the European Union. Using this artificial language in a playful way, the learners become aware of the language diversity in Europe and experience it as something positive and develop a sense of togetherness.

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Languages: French , Spanish , Italian , French , Italian , Italian ,

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Die lange Reise der Wörter

Publication year: 2017

Students discover in a playful way that there is a lively exchange between languages. They can find out that loan words don’t refer exclusively to the linguistic but also to the cultural level. Mostly, foreign words and loan words are borrowed as terms of new objects, new techniques or concepts.

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Coffee

Publication year: 2012

The purpose of this activity is to compare different habits and ways of preparing coffee in various cultures and to research the words ‘milk’ and ‘coffee’ in different languages.


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Story about languages

Publication year: 2011

This activity makes the pupils aware of the evolution of languages.

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