Multilingual student papers or wall boards

Different forms of student newspapers have been popular for a long time. This may also include notice boards and, more recently, digital means of communication. These can easily expand to include different languages, just as big city newspapers may include rubrics in the popular migration languages (or publish a paper version in the great migration languages).

Variant 1: Contributions to the paper’s topics which are written in other languages besides the school language are included in the paper. However, the text should at least be summarized in the school language for the benefit of all readers.

Variant 2: Special rubrics should be created for the announcements in different languages (e. g. in relation to events in the country of origin). Here, too, a short summary in the school language schould be provided.

Multilingual picture books or adventure books

Contributions to project weeks or exhibitions, like “our cultures”, “where we come from”, “great vacation destinations”, “our languages” etc.

Goal: Many schools and teachers are increasingly engaged in intercultural issues in today’s multilingual/multicultural environment. This provides a unique opportunity for cooperation between heritage language teaching and regular, mainstream education classes. It is therefore important that heritage language instructors seize the initiative to make this happen. The following suggestions should appeal to the teachers of regular public school classes as well.

Topic Information

60 - 120 minutes

4th – 6th grade 7th – 9th grade

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Explanations, abbreviations
First language	Also mother tongue or family language: the first language a child has learned and speaks at home. Some children have two first languages.
School language	The language that is spoken in the schools of the host country. In addition, the local dialect may count as an environment language.
Abbreviations	S: Student T: Teacher (instructor)

Legend for indications referencing organizational form, class, time requirements concerning teaching proposals:
	IW = Individual Work
	WP = Working with a partner
	SG = Small Groups
	WC = Whole Class
2nd – 4th grade	Suitable for... to... (e.g. 2nd – 4th grade). Keeping in mind that this designation may vary according to the requirements of the individual students.
20 minutes	Approximate time requirement, e.g. 20 minutes. (Estimated time varies, must be determined by the instructor according to the level and the requirements of the class).

3. Multilingual student papers or wall boards

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