Matériau didactiques

This activity helps students to differentiate between the terms “mother language”, “second language” and “foreign language”. They not only learn the meanings of those three notions but they also learn the terms “monolingual”, “bilingual” and “plurilingual”. During this activity students have to classify people they know into monolingual, bilingual, trilingual and plurilingual. With the help of a dictionary they have to find the exact meaning of each of the above definitions. After that a video is screened to help the students distinguish better those definitions. Students are also asked to fill a questionnaire (Guide d’entrevue) mainly about themselves and their relation to/experience of languages. Then on separate petals each student has to write down the languages he/she knows. In this way all the petals will form the flower of languages which will be hung and kept visible in the classroom all year round.

Approach: Awakening to languages

Type of material: Iconic documents; sound

Source:
ELODiL : Éveil au langage et ouverture à la diversité linguistique.
http://www.elodil.com/files/modules_primaire/Fleur%20des%20langues.Mai2006.pdf