Engaging with Linguistic Diversity describes an innovative and highly successful approach to inclusive plurilingual education at Primary level.
After describing the national context.
The central feature of the approach is the Inclusion of home languages in classroom communication.
The approach was developed by Scoil Bhr de (Cail n ), Blanchardstown, as a way of converting extreme Linguistic diversity - more than 50 home languages in a School of 320 pupils - into Educational capital.
Engaging with Linguistic Diversity describes an innovative and highly successful approach to inclusive plurilingual education at Primary level