Useful information
Language support in Coventry
- Ethnic Minority Achievement Service (EMAS)
Offers a range of services for ethnic minority groups and migrants, including English language support, Multilingual Language Assistants for school children, Exam Instructor contact details, and events which celebrate diversity in schools. - Coventry Refugee and Migrant Centre
Support includes English classes, and the Lingo Links translation and interpretation service. - Coventry Interpretation and Translation Unit
- Adult Social Care and Communities Directory
Search this directory for ‘language’ and find a language café, English classes, and various language classes…
Teaching resources and support
- The Research Unit for Multilingualism and Cross-Cultural Communication (RUMACCC), University of Melbourne – provides FREE readers designed to help children enjoy reading in many languages.
- Mantra Lingua - bilingual books.
- Language Nut - digital language resources for schools.
- Stephen Spender Trust Creative Translation for Young People - translation courses.
- National Resource Centre for Supplementary Education - support organisation for community-led supplementary schools across England.
- Bilingualism Matters - Bilingual Families: advice for parents on raising children with more than one language.
Guidance for parents/carers
- Articles by Dr Susanne Döpke on Raising children in more than one language. Download from RUMACCC:
- Bilingualism Matters - Parents’ questions about raising bilingual children (available in eight languages).
- Bilingualism Matters - Bilingual Families: advice for parents on raising children with more than one language.
MultiMind -Questions and Answers about bilingualism.
Berlin Interdisciplinary Alliance for Multilingualism (BIVEM) – Achieving bilingualism flyers.
Speaking your home language(s) with your children
- Using your home language(s)
- Why?
- Promoting home language skills
- What if parents speak different languages?
- Promoting German as a second language
- From our research
- Tips for parents
Overcoming prejudices and benefiting from advantages
- Who is bilingual, anyway …?
- Overcoming prejudices & misconceptions
- Benefiting from advantages
- Tips for parents
… for children with language impairments
- What is a language impairment?
- Can bilingualism cause language impairments?
- How do language impairments affect bilingual children?
- Are language impairments more severe in bilingual children than in monolinguals?
- Can children with language impairments learn more than one language?
- What is important when diagnosing language impairments?
- What is important during therapy?
- Choosing a speech and language therapist
Reading aloud encourages language development
- Why is reading aloud important?
- Reading aloud and education
- Reading aloud to multilingual children …
- … in the home language
- … in German
- What does reading aloud mean?
- Important tips for parents
- Linguistic diversity worldwide
- Appreciation of languages is important
- Language is part of identity
- Important tips for parents
- Grammatical gender across languages
- Gender in multilingual acquisition
- Gender-fair language
- Tips for parents
Language Policy
- Promoting Language Policy project
- Family Language Policy project
- Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity
- Association for Language Learning - Home / Heritage / Community Languages Advisory Group
- Bilingualism Matters - Bilingual Policy: information for policy makers working with bilingual families
