Plurilingual and Intercultural Education

Event(s)/Behavior(s)

As the author said in his article, the goal of plurilingual and intercultural education is about the development of plurilingual skills, but it is just as much about their inseparable intercultural dimension. Even though he mentioned this term is very often employed in curricula, it must be said that modern language curricula are more explicit concerning in language learning than on the approaches to be adopted to develop the knowledge and attitudes characteristic of intercultural education. On the other hand, the author express that intercultural education is according to the context of language teaching, open and proactive, reflective and critical attitudes in order to learn how to address all forms of contact with otherness in a positive way and profitably manage them. Moreover, the author kept that socio linguistic composition of their classes requires teachers to differentiate more and to encourage students, in order they have a better command of one or other of the languages used in lessons because it is related to the language they speak at home. As a result, he indicated that teacher training and the development of educational resources are essential. It is also very important to involve teachers in certain stages of decision-making processes.

Feelings

* Frustrated

* Sleepy

* Tired

* Angry

Thoughts

My first thought when I wanted to start reading this article was that I would understand it because it was a complex topic that I had seen in some classes before. I was also thinking if I would able to get the main idea that author explained, in order to write good information because the topic seems easy. Another thought that I had was that the intercultural Education not take into account the knowledge and skills.

Learnings

Step One:

* First, I assumed that the article was easy to understand.

* Another assumption was that Intercultural Education nowadays would be put into practice in all academic...