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Understanding Multilingual Children's Language Development 

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Understanding Multilingual Children's Language Development
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FutureLearn 
Overview

Discover the benefits of multilingualism to enhance your practice in classroom, clinical, and home settings.

Duration

3 weeks

Total fee

2,205

Mode of learning

Online

Credential

Certificate

Understanding Multilingual Children's Language Development
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Understanding Multilingual Children's Language Development
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Understanding Multilingual Children's Language Development
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Course details

More about this course
  • On this three-week course, learners will gain the skills to support and nurture multilingual children
  • Learners will develop their knowledge of how young children learn to understand and produce spoken language
  • The course provides a platform for inter-professional dialogue between teachers and SLTs to help transform working practice so that multilingual children can reach their full potential
  • Learners will see how languages are valued and cherished in practice as they hear from a teacher and SLT who share their experiences in overcoming challenges
  • Throughout the course, learner will develop a profile of a fictional child, and use it to plan an advocacy or support strategy that can take back to your classroom or clinic
  • Finally, learner will be encouraged to reflect on three actions you can take as the first steps towards putting this learning into practice in their own professional setting
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Understanding Multilingual Children's Language Development
 at 
FutureLearn 
Curriculum

Multilingualism and Identity

What is multilingualism?

The range of multilingual experience

Multilingualism and identity

Review and reflect

Language development and multilingualism

Being multilingual

Mechanisms of language development in multilingual children

Mechanisms of phonological development, word learning and role of decoding

Discourse level development

Review and reflect

Putting it into practice

When languages interact

Quantity and quality of language input

Putting it into practice

Review and what's next?

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