Language and Culture Integration

How to work it at school

There’s no doubt about that we live in a globalized world where the movement of people is increasing every day, and as a result, we can find at our classes students from different nationalities and cultures which requires an extra effort to communicate.

Due to this cultural change and the increasing social demand it’s necessary to promote, from school, the learning of foreign languages to build a solid basis of multilingualism.

In this context, we have to remember that we should also teach about the ethnic equality and the importance of cultural diversity, because cultural pluralism give the students the opportunity to grow as person and be open-minded in their future if they learn to have a wider view of the world.

Next video (Minute 32:55) is related with we are talking about, and shows how a program at a school’s library achieves to improve the language and cultural integration at the same time. This program is based on student volunteers that help the foreign students, and their families too, to do their homework, and, in the other hand, foreign families teach about their language and cultural habits.

I think that’s a good way to work through the respect and interest to other languages and cultures.