ppli.ieLanguage and Languages in the Primary School Some guidelines for teachers by David Little and Déirdre KirwanEspecially in the senior school, pupilsmay become interested in a languagethat is far from their experience andcertainly not taught at school – Korean,for example – and use the internet toadd to their multilingual word lists.Especiallywhenitispursuedautonomously, interest in an exoticlanguage may not seem to leadanywhere, but it is evidence of thepupil’s reflective engagement withlanguage and certainly coincides withthe purposes of the Primary LanguageCurriculum (Figure 39).Figure 38: Profile of a model in four languages – English,Irish, French (MFL), and Hungarian (HL) - produced as partof the project on clothes and fashionFigure 39: Autonomous work by native speaker of Englishwho wanted to learn ItalianPPLI deliveringSupported by49
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