Resources to support multilingualism
Teaching and learning resources
World of Languages, Languages of the World (WOLLOW)
WoLLoW is a fully developed language curriculum for pupils aged between 7 and 15. Created by experienced language teachers and available free to all schools, the project aims to bind together all elements of a pupil’s experience in school and beyond and to prepare pupils not only for future study, but future life.
Why use Wollow?
Suitable for all abilities, and using a range of lively and appealing resources created by teachers, the WoLLoW curriculum addresses the following themes:
- curiosity, exploration and enjoyment – and not only for the pupils
- an understanding of languages and thereby a development of literacy in a wider sense
- communication, sharing, dialogue and oracy
- a regard for all languages, modern, classical, heritage and, in particular, a celebration of multilingualism
- a desire to preserve, value and study familial languages
- an eagerness to study languages into the future
- respect for each other’s history and culture
- a sense of self-awareness and identity for pupils
- a bridge between a pupil’s experience at school and their home life, and a bridge between parents and the school
- an awareness of the relevance of languages not only to all school subjects but also to wider issues, such as migration.
We have made sample files available of the primary topic units entitled 'Multilingual Me' and 'A Celebration of Languages', and at secondary level, 'Journey', and 'Community'.
Lost Wor(l)ds
Lost Wor(l)ds is a website full of activities and ideas to help encourage and facilitate multilingualism. On this site, you will find:
- Activities and resources that actively enable multilingual children to use their languages in formal education contexts, and for non-multilingual children to develop language awareness and utilise any growing understanding of modern foreign languages. Activities range in length from about half an hour to ideas that can take several weeks to implement as part of a scheme of work, and all activities include ideas for home/family communication, and making multilingualism and language awareness visible across the school.
- “Stimulus Activities” – images to be used as starters, in form time, or to take the register, to expose children to fun vocabulary from around the world, enable multilingual children to use their languages, and encourage all children to increase language awareness.
- A blog featuring book reviews, interviews, and highlighted activities – this is very much intended to be a community blog, and we would love to feature your school, and children’s results from working on any of our activities!
- A growing set of academic resources