How to develop a School Language Policy

This is also in Spanish.

Presentation on Language Policy

Learning a language different from the mother tongue

This presentation is mainly in Spanish. If you think this can help you, please use it or comment on it. We're soon doing it in English as well.

Prezi Presentation on this topic

Session guideline

Here is the guideline we created for the session. Please feel free to comment on it or download it for academic use.

LANGUAGE POLICY PRESENTATION GUIDELINE

ACTIVITIES	MATERIAL	TIME	TEACHER
WARM UP 1.     Teachers receive memo cards with information about the IB Profile. Some get the definitions and others the characteristic. They stand up and try to match their cards. If they wish they can give a very brief explanation of the profile.	Cards and sticky tack	10’	Erik Lu
PRESENTATION 2.     A video of 1 minute is shown ”The Pink Panther”. Teachers get some questions about “Learning a language different from the mother tongue” which they discuss in pairs. 3.     After a few minutes, the teachers share their talking with the audience while the presenter jots down the highlights on the board. After each answer the presenters give a summary of what the IB says about it. 4.     Teachers now write questions about “Language Policy” for the presenters to answer them at the end of the presentation. 5.     The presentation about Language Policy and How to develop one takes place.	Cards with questions PPT  Pens and pieces of paper PPT  or Prezi	7’ 15’ 5’ 15’	Karen Meza Karen Meza Erik Lu Erik Lu
CONCLUSIONS 6.     The questions teachers had about Linguistic Policy are read out and some are volunteered to answer. 7.     The video “Los Castellanos del Perú” is shown.	Oral Video	10’ 3’	Karen Meza Just play
Total time		65’

Language Policy (Política Lingüística)- Part I

There are many schools who are part of the IB world. One of the most important threads to have a successful coherent programme is the School Language Policy. This blog intends to give some hints on this issue and all comments are welcomed. I hope I can upload a Prezi presentation after this self-study of the documents provided by the IBO in the OCC.


The presentation my partner Erik Lu and I are giving is in Spanish, so the presentation is in this language.


This is the guideline we are using for the session:

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