Category: Bilingualism

S4 Ep.9 Learning a Second Language: Choice or Circumstance with Prof. Johanne Paradis

11/24/2022

Season 4 has been all about bilingualism, multilingualism and various crosslinguistic pedagogical approaches. In this episode, I had the privilege of interviewing Johanne Paradis, Professor in the Department of Linguistics and Adjunct Professor in Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Alberta. Johanne has published more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters on bilingual children and is first author of Dual Language Development and Disorders, 3rd Edition, Brookes Publishing (2021). Throughout this episode, we talk mostly about immigrant or refugee children learning English-as-a-second language. We also touch on language disorders in bilingual children. Johanne provides many tips and advice for teachers, educators and speech-language pathologists. Here are a few examples:

Advice for teachers/SLPs/educators

Encouraging the use of the Heritage Language at home;
Making bilingualism the foundation for everything;
Finding ways to support the Heritage language even if you don’t speak it;
Building a team approach (parents, older children, community members, people from the school, etc.) to intervention with children who speak a language that is different from the language that the adult speaks .

As well as advice for parents who mainly speak a heritage language in the home.

Advice for parents

Speak the heritage language at home;
Redirect your child to the heritage language;
Recast what they say in English in the Heritage language;
Expand what your child says in the heritage language by adding a few more words;
Maximize exposure to different speakers of the heritage language;
Create diversity of experience in the heritage language;
Read books, tell stories and/or listen to music in the heritage language;
If you text with your children, text in the heritage language.

Johanne also talks about her website where you can find resources and useful information:
Child English Second Language (CHESL) Centre: https://sites.google.com/ualberta.ca/chesl/home

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Parlé Podcast · S4 Ep.9 Learning a Second Language: Choice or Circumstance? with Johanne Paradis

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S4 Ep. 2 Supporting Minority Language Learners with Dr. Fred Genesee

4/13/2022

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In this episode, which is part of a series on all things bilingual, Dr. Genesee and I talk about dual language learners, language use in schools, and the impact of the majority language on minority language acquisition in both minority language schools (ex. French language schools) and immersion programs. Dr. Genesee gives very useful strategies that can be used by educators who are interested in exploring a bilingual or a crosslinguistic approach in a meaningful way. We talk about how we can support the use of the children’s linguistic resources in order to help them acquire and maintain the minority language. We also talk about the importance of establishing clear goals when using crosslinguistic or translanguaging approaches as well as the parents’ role in their child’s acquisition of a minority language, be it their home language or the school language.

Resources mentioned during the episode
CLIL in Context: Practical Guidance for Educators by Fred Genesee and Else Hamayan

Ballinger, S., Lyster, R., Sterzuk, A. & Genesee, F. (2017). Context-appropriate
crosslinguistic pedagogy: Considering the role of language status in immer_sion education. Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education, 5, 30–57. doi: 10.1075/jicb.5.1.02bal

Dual Language Instruction from A to Z: Practical Guidance for Teachers and Administrators” by Else Hamayan, Fred Genesee, and Nancy Cloud.

Dual Language Development and Disorders – third edition by Johanne Paradis, Fred Genesee and Martha Crago

Websites:
Multilingual matters: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/

François Grosjean: https://www.francoisgrosjean.ch/index.html

Listeners can use the promo code PARLE in order to get a reduced rate at Medbridge, a continuing education platform for health care professionals, which includes educational resources for school-based speech-language pathologists. In fact, you can find 6 courses on second language acquisition.

Parlé Podcast · S4 Ep.2 Supporting Minority Language Learners with Dr. Fred Genesee

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S4 Ep. 1: Sustainable Pedagogical Translanguaging in a Minority Context with Dr. Jasone Cenoz

3/3/2022

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When I started this podcast back in 2019, I wasn’t entirely sure how it would unfold. I am thrilled with the outcome, with over 15 000 downloads, 46 episodes and guests from all over the world. Today I am releasing Season 4 with an episode on one of my favorite topics: bilingualism and multilingualism with Dr. Jasone Cenoz. Dr. Cenoz is a professor of education at the University of the Basque Country. Her research focuses on bilingualism and multilingualism in education and on pedagogical translanguaging.

Pedagogical translanguaging is “a theoretical and instructional approach that aims at improving language and content competences in school contexts by using resources from the learner's whole linguistic repertoire. Pedagogical translanguaging is learner-centred and endorses the support and development of all the languages used by learners. It fosters the development of metalinguistic awareness by softening of boundaries between languages when learning languages and content.” (Cenoz and Gorter, 2021).

Here are links to some of the resources discussed during the episode.
Cenoz and Gorter (2017): Minority Languages and Sustainable Translanguaging: Threat or Opportunity.
In this article, Dr. Cenoz and Dr. Gorter provide the following 5 guiding principles for sustainable translanguaging for regional minority languages:
1. Design functional breathing spaces for using the minority language
2. Develop the need to use the minority languages through translanguaging
3. Use emergent multilinguals’resources to reinforce all languages by developing metalinguistic awareness
4. Enhance language awareness
5. Link spontaneous translanguaging to pedagogical activities

Another fabulous resource gives a thorough explanation of pedagogical translanguaging, metalinguistic awareness, minority languages and much more.
Cenoz and Gorter (2021): Pedagogical Translanguaging
Watch the video abstract here: https://vimeo.com/623281123

Finally, this is a fantastic video that further explains pedagogical translanguaging called:
Let’s make the most of multilingualism

En français, vous pouvez trouvez un bref article qui porte sur le translangage en contexte minoritaire comme on le vit au Canada hors Québec sur le site de La Conversation.
(translation: For the French listeners, you can find a short article on translanguaging in a minority context as experienced in Canada outside Quebec on the La Conversation website.)

Listeners can use the promo code PARLE in order to get a reduced rate at Medbridge, a continuing education platform for health care professionals, which includes educational resources for school-based speech-language pathologists. In fact, you can find 6 courses on second language acquisition.

Parlé Podcast · S4 Ep.1 Sustainable Pedagogical Translanguaging in a Minority Context with Dr. Jasone Cenoz

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S1 Ep. 15 How to Help our Kids Learn French in an English World.

9/24/2019

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You asked for it, so I delivered. Join me during this episode as I answer some of the frequent questions I get from families surrounding raising English-French bilingual kids in an English dominant community. During the episode, I talk to a few bilingual kids ranging from 8 to 14 years of age about their thoughts on language use. I also interview my dear husband, Kevin, to ask him about his experience as an anglophone parent raising bilingual kids and his journey as he learned a minority language. I also give several tips on what is required when learning a minority language in order to ensure mastery of this language. Check out the various resources that I mentioned on the "Useful Resources" Page of this Website or click here.

I purposefully posted this episode today, September 25th, Journée des Franco-Ontariens or Franco-Ontarian Day in order to raise a bit of awareness on the importance of placing value on all the languages spoken in the home. Join the Francophone and Francophile community! Get involved with your child's school and find out how you can increase exposure to the French language.

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S4 Ep.9 Learning a Second Language: Choice or Circumstance with Prof. Johanne Paradis

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Listeners can use the promo code PARLE in order to get a reduced rate at Medbridge, a continuing education platform for health care professionals, which includes educational resources for school-based speech-language pathologists. In fact, you can find 6 courses on second language acquisition.

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