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Linguistically Appropriate Practice Basics
Lap Features
Makes the invisible, visible.
Teaches children to love languages.
Enriches, extends and enhances ongoing curriculum and engages all children.
Serves as a reminder that language and literacy learning exist beyond the
classroom.
Strongly believes that bilinguals use their entire linguistic repertoire to meet their various communicative needs.
Builds on and extends the knowledge, experience, language ability and literacy
skills of all children.
WHAT IS LAP ?
Views immigrant children as far more than learners of the school language
Builds on their language and literacy skills
An inclusive, multilingual instructional practice for linguistically diverse classrooms
Grounded in dynamic bilingualism, a theory that focuses on bilinguals’ unique language use.
Five Reasons to Adopt Multilingual Teaching
3) Language as resource
Multilingual teaching works
2) Shortcomings of monolingual practice
5) Multilingual teaching puts the brakes on children's language loss
1) Changing school populations
LAP Theories
multiliteracies pedagogy
dynamic bilingualism
strength-based orientation
translanguaging
social constructivism
translanguaging practice
Social justice
LAP Activities
Theme 1: Charting home languages
Activities
• Prepare a ‘Sign In’ book and encourage children to make their own unique entries.
• Create a Language Tree with multilingual greetings on cut-out leaves.
Theme 2: Home languages
in the classroom
Activities
• Invite parents to share simple songs in their home languages.
• Encourage children to create bilingual greeting cards for special people and days.
Theme 3: Linking home
and classroom
Activities
• Discuss mealtime practices across languages and cultures. What happens in your
home?
• Telephone talk across languages and cultures. How do you answer the phone?
Theme 4: Bring in the
outside
Activities
• Celebrate International Mother Language Day on 21 February.
• Compare environmental sounds across languages (cat, dog, rooster, ambulance).
Theme 5: Sharing books
and newspapers