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Language and Languages in the Primary School Some guidelines for teachers by David Little and Déirdre Kirwan
Especially in the senior school, pupils
may become interested in a language
that is far from their experience and
certainly not taught at school – Korean,
for example – and use the internet to
add to their multilingual word lists.
Especially
when
it
is
pursued
autonomously, interest in an exotic
language may not seem to lead
anywhere, but it is evidence of the
pupil’s reflective engagement with
language and certainly coincides with
the purposes of the Primary Language
Curriculum (Figure 39).
Figure 38: Profile of a model in four languages – English,
Irish, French (MFL), and Hungarian (HL) - produced as part
of the project on clothes and fashion
Figure 39: Autonomous work by native speaker of English
who wanted to learn Italian
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