Plurilingualism and pluriculturalism in content-based teaching

This publication is targeted at:

• Primary and secondary school teachers working with learners from different
  linguistic and cultural backgrounds


• Teacher trainers looking for a training kit with very practical resources


• Educational inspectors and decision-makers faced with accommodating
  diversity in the school curriculum

Educational institutions increasingly face the challenge of accommodating learners
from a wide range of linguistic and cultural backgrounds in their classrooms. The
training kit presents an innovative way of managing diversity in the classroom
by combining plurilingual and pluricultural approaches with content-based
instruction. The reader will discover how content-based and plurilingual activities
can be linked to several subjects of the curriculum.

The accompanying website presents sample activities which illustrate the
approach outlined in the rationale. A primary school teacher will, for example,
find an activity suitable for mathematics, sports and/or music and a secondary
school teacher of civic, social and political education may be interested in
testing out plurilingual comparative text work on the theme of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.

For further information and materials relating to this publication, visit the website:
http://conbat.ecml.at