She believes strongly that a multicultural dual-language education is one of the greatest gifts we can provide our children, and that effective family literacy is heavily dependent on the availability of stories and literature to which people can relate culturally and realistically".
In our informational, globalized and multicultural world, any language teacher, irrespective of the language taught, must inspire and make good use of any teaching and learning resources available, be they didactic or not.
We live in a multicultural society, where language isn't only a pile of words but something which can bring people together". You can hear more on this story on BBC Asian Network at 17:00 GMT on Friday, or after that on the BBC iPlayer.
In a multicultural classroom, second language learners' silence has always been related to the lack of understanding the target language or psychological or linguistics withdrawal.
Project those figures forward and our British university cities could, if we're lucky, become multicultural hubs of language exchange, better food, more money, transferable skills, foreign investment and more interesting supermarkets. .
It puts them at a severe disadvantage when competing with foreign rivals run by multinational and multicultural staffs". Japanese language, which is considered by experts to be among the most difficult to learn, is highly adaptive to the Japanese high-context culture but irrelevant in most of the world outside this island nation.
In multicultural, multilingual contexts, language barriers present an important challenge to effective patient-provider communication [ 2- 4].
Similar to international sporting events, the multicultural celebration of languages inevitably fueled nationalist sentiments in various guises that ranged from political protests to celebration of independence.
As Tel Aviv is a multicultural city, many languages are spoken in addition to Hebrew.
