"The Bilingualism is good"
The Greek-French College "DELASAL", in collaboration with the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, Faculty of English Language and Literature, AUTH (responsible for the organization "With two languages!", Which is "annex" of Bilingualism Matters Information Service of the University of Edinburgh), organizes workshop for teachers at all levels and all disciplines, as well as parents of bilingual families, with the theme "Bilingualism is good" Saturday, March 21, 2015 (10.00 - 13.30) in the Auditorium of the High School - Lyceum College 'DELASAL ".
The need for the workshop arose from the growing number of children who speak more than one language in our country and the massive participation of pupils learning a foreign language to study and / or work abroad, but lack sufficient knowledge to address the issue of parents and teachers. The aim of the conference is to inform about the positive bilingualism and provide practical advice to support the development of multilingual children. On the website of the program "With two languages" AUTH
(Http://www.enl.auth.gr/me2glosses/) states: "In Greece, the Bilingualism has two main origins: (a) children from mixed marriages, families where one parent speaks another language from the Greek and (b) children from families migration. A third (numerically lower) probability are children of Greek parents, who, knowing the benefits of bilingualism, send their children to a bilingual or upper secondary school (eg French, English, German school, etc.) ... ... the percentage of bilingual children in Greece exceeds 10% of the total student population. In almost every classroom studying 1-4 bilingual children ... ... Research has shown that bilingualism helps the positive development of children.
The need for the workshop arose from the growing number of children who speak more than one language in our country and the massive participation of pupils learning a foreign language to study and / or work abroad, but lack sufficient knowledge to address the issue of parents and teachers. The aim of the conference is to inform about the positive bilingualism and provide practical advice to support the development of multilingual children. On the website of the program "With two languages" AUTH
(Http://www.enl.auth.gr/me2glosses/) states: "In Greece, the Bilingualism has two main origins: (a) children from mixed marriages, families where one parent speaks another language from the Greek and (b) children from families migration. A third (numerically lower) probability are children of Greek parents, who, knowing the benefits of bilingualism, send their children to a bilingual or upper secondary school (eg French, English, German school, etc.) ... ... the percentage of bilingual children in Greece exceeds 10% of the total student population. In almost every classroom studying 1-4 bilingual children ... ... Research has shown that bilingualism helps the positive development of children.