Can embracing plurilingualism transform education?

Suitable for 14-19-year olds (secondary and high schools, and college), this article and accompanying activity sheet can be used in the classroom, language clubs and at home.

This resource links to KS4 and KS5 languages and can be used for teacher CPD.

It can also be used as a careers resource and links to Gatsby Benchmarks:
Gatsby Benchmark 2: Learning from career and labour market information
Gatsby Benchmark 4: Linking curriculum learning to careers

• This teaching resource explains the work of Dr Caroline Payant, an applied linguist at Université du Québec à Montréal. She is investigating how plurilingualism can improve language education.

• This resource also contains an interview with Caroline and offers an insight into careers in applied linguistics. If your students have questions for Caroline, they can send them through the Futurum Careers website.

• The activity sheet provides ‘talking points’ (based on Bloom’s Taxonomy) to prompt students to reflect on Caroline’s research and challenges them to create their own language portrait.

This resource was first published by Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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