Language Diversity in Amsterdam

Growing up in a multilingual family

The European Day of Languages is the inspiration for The Foundation Polish Culture NL in cooperation with OBA Oosterdok to organise an event to encourage the use of parental native languages and to discuss multilingual upbringing and education.

The event will be at OBA Oosterdok, 26 September 2021, 15.00 – 17.30

Speakers:

• Maaike Verrips
• Parents in multilingual families are sometimes insecure about important questions: How can I help my child learn Dutch? How many languages can children learn simultaneously? What is the relationship between multilingualism and language delay? meertalig.nl
• Ellen-Rose Kambel A Language Friendly School is the answer to increasing multilingualism in education: the result of people around the world looking for work, joining their loved ones or trying to escape war or conflict. A Language Friendly School welcomes and values all languages spoken at school. Language Friendly School
• Ute Limacher-Riebold
• Ute is co-author of the book “The Toolbox for Multilingual Families” and “How to raise a bilingual child”. She will talk about supporting the language development of children who speak more than one language. Children don’t become multilingual by “magic”. It is an ongoing process that takes many years and that requires consistency, commitment and creativity, not only from the parents but also from family, teachers and friends.  utesinternationallounge.com
• Mindy McCracken/ Josh Martin Opening the door to your students’ languages: the power of translanguaging in multilingual classrooms. Creating a multilingual learning space, enables students to use what they already know to unlock both new language and content learning. (The International School of The Hague)

Event host:  Milka Yemane

Panel discussion with the participation of the speakers, Polish Culture NL www.polishculture.nl en Stichting Taal naar Keuze www.taalnaarkeuze.nl

This event is for multilingual families, policy makers, professionals working in a multilingual environment, teachers with multilingual classes, teachers in language schools, anybody facing the challenge of bringing up multilingual children.

Multilingual children

The meeting will be of interest for anyone who is dealing with the challenges involved with having of working with multilingual children:

• Multilingual families
• Policy makers
• Professionals working in a multilingual environment
• Teachers with multilingual classes
• Teachers in language schools
• Anybody facing the challenge of bringing up multilingual children

OBA Oosterdok: Oosterdokskade 143 1011 DL Amsterdam

Entree € 5

Tickets via OBA.

Support

The project is made possible with the support of the Chancellery of the Prime Minister of Poland (Kancelaria Prezesa Rady Ministrów) as part of the Polonia and Poles Abroad 2021 competition and Wspólnota Polska.