The PE-LAL project: Plurilingual Education – Minority and Majority Students’ Language Awareness across Educational Levels

The teaching materials developed in the project are in Danish.

Download the teaching materials at our Danish website.

Bildetema

Visit: Bildetema

Bildetema is part of the Norwegian online platform Tema Morsmål which contains resources and materials in a plethora oflanguages. Bildetema is a plurilingual, interactive visual dictionary with illustrations, text, sound and animations and contains around 1900 entries divided into 31 themes such as ”the weather” or ”sports.” Bildetema is run in cooperation between Norway, Sweden and Denmark and has Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish, Danish and Enlish as primary languages. Many different minority languages such as Arabic and Somali can be chosen  - up to 10 languages at a time.

• Target group: primary and pre-primary
• Subjects: materials may be used across the curriculum

Norden i Skolen 

Visit Norden i Skolen

The platform Norden i Skolen, administrated by Foreningen Norden, consists of teaching materials within the field of inter-comprehension between Scandinavian languages and Nordic cultures. The material, available in Danish, Faroese, Islandic, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk), Swedish and some minority languages, can be selected according to three main categories (‘language and culture’, ’history and society’, ‘climate and nature’), educational levels, language subjects, thematic areas, learning focuses and teaching activities.

• Target group: Primary to upper secondary school
• Subjects: Foreign language education and subjects across the school’s curriculum

Plurilingual Guide: Implementing Critical Plurilingual Pedagogy in Language Education

Visit Plurilingual Guide: Implementing Critical Plurilingual Pedagogy in Language Education

The publication Plurilingual Guide: Implementing Critical Plurilingual Pedagogy in Language Education, published by the Plurilingual Lab at McGill University, consists of 10 tasks based on an inclusive critical plurilingual and pluricultural approach. The tasks are detailly described in a step-by-step guide and contains texts, links, and worksheets.

• Target group: Primary and upper secondary school
• Subjects: Foreign language education

Signs of language

Visit Signs of language

The Danish longitude project Signs of Language has for 10 years followed minority students’ literacy development within plurilingual education. The project’s website contains inspiration to plurilingual activities focusing on second language and literacy development in plurilingual classrooms aiming for lower and upper primary school and lower secondary school.

• Target group: Primary and lower secondary school
• Subjects: Danish, Danish as Second Language and subjects across the school’s curriculum

The CONBAT+ project

Visit the CONBAT+ project

The CONBAT+ project has developed teaching materials within the field of plurilingual and intercultural education, which has an embedded CLIL approach and can be used with students aged 6-20. The material, available in English, French and Spanish, can be selected according to educational levels, thematic areas, subjects and language of instruction.

• Target group: Primary to upper secondary school and beyond
• Subjects: Foreign language education and subjects across the school’s curriculum

The EDiLiC Association

Visit the EDiLiC Association

The EDiLiC Association has collected teaching materials within the field of plurilingual education from different projects in e.g., Austria, Canada, England, France, Germany, Luxemburg, Spain and Switzerland. The collection contains online activities and references to books dealing with the subject.

• Target group: Primary to upper secondary school and beyond
• Subjects: Foreign language education and subjects across the school’s curriculum

The European Language Portfolio

Visit the European Language Portfolio

The European Language Portfolio, based on The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, translated from Norwegian into Danish. The portfolio consists of a language passport, a language biography and a language folder, and serves to enable the student (age 6-12) to visualize and reflect on his/her acquisition processes.

• Target group: Primary school
• Subjects: Danish as Second Language, English, French and German 

The FREPA database

Visit the FREPA database

The FREPA database, facilitated by the European Centre for Modern Languages, Council of Europe, consists of teaching materials within the field of plurilingual and intercultural education. The material, available in a wide range of languages, can be selected according to educational levels, thematic areas, type of pluralistic approach and language of instruction.

• Target group: From pre-primary to upper secondary and beyond
• Subjects: Foreign language education and subjects across the school’s curriculum

Tidligere sprogstart (early language learning)

Visit Tidligere sprogstart

Research-based and in practice tested teaching material for English, French and German, which takes into account plurilingual education. The material, available in Danish, focuses on early language learning and consists of a language passport, a language portfolio and individual activities integrated within the teaching descriptions. All plurilingual activities come with an answer key.

• Target group: Primary school
• Subjects: English, French and German

• Daryai-Hansen, P. & Drachmann, N. (forthcoming). Language Awareness across Educational Levels in the Context of Plurilingual Education – Recommendations for Curriculum Development in Denmark. Nordic Journal of Language Teaching and Journal.
• Daryai-Hansen, P. & Drachmann, N. (forthcoming). Sproglig opmærksomhed via en flersprogethedsdidaktik på tværs af uddannelsesniveauer – Anbefalinger til læreplans- og praksisudvikling i Danmark. Nordic Journal of Language Teaching and Journal.
• Daryai-Hansen, P., Drachmann, N. & Krogager Andersen, L. (forthcoming). Sproglig opmærksomhed i rammen af en flersprogethedsdidaktik – en konceptualisering på tværs af uddannelsesniveauer. Sprogforum.
• Daryai-Hansen, P., Drachmann, N. & Krogager Andersen, L. (forthcoming). Students’ Language Awareness across Educational Levels in the Context of Plurilingual Education - A Conceptualization. From Early Childhood to Adulthood: Plurilingual Education Across Educational Contexts. Transitions, Continuity, and Disruptions.
• Daryai-Hansen, P., Drachmann, N. & Krogager Andersen, L. (2020).Minoritets- og majoritetselevers sproglige opmærksomhed på tværs af uddannelsesniveauer. Sproglæreren, 3 (2020), 42-45.
• Daryai-Hansen, P., Drachmann, N., & Krogager Andersen, L. (2022). Rethinking Language Awareness in the Context of Plurilingual Education – a Study across Educational Levels in Denmark. https://www.plurilingualeducation.ku.dk/.
• Drachmann, N. (submitted). Sproglig opmærksomhed via en flersprogethedsdidaktik – Et læreplans- og multicasestudie på tværs af sprogfag og klassetrin i grundskolen [PhD thesis]. Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen.
• Drachmann, N. (forthcoming). Plurilingual Education in the Mainstream Language Teaching Classroom: Students’ Manifestations of Language Awareness in Primary and Lower Secondary School. From Early Childhood to Adulthood: Plurilingual Education Across Educational Contexts. Transitions, Continuity, and Disruptions.
• Drachmann, N. (2022). Flersprogethed i sprogfagenes læreplaner. Sprogforum, 74, 33-40. https://doi.org/10.7146/spr.v28i74.133028
• Drachmann, N. (2022). Flersprogethedsdidaktik i fremmedsprogsfagene: Idékatalog til udvikling af sprogsammenlignende aktiviteter. Sproglæreren, 3 (2002), 16-21.
• Drachmann, N. (2023). Developing language awareness activities in the context of plurilingual education: two didactic models for language teaching practice. International Journal of Multilingualism. https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2023.2232385
• Drachmann, N. (2023). Flersprogethedsdidaktik og sproglig opmærksomhed – Et læreplansstudie på tværs af sprogfag og klassetrin i den danske grundskole. Acta Didactica Norden, 17(1). https://doi.org/10.5617/adno.9831
• Drachmann, N. (2023). «Jeg kender lidt ordene. Det er en lille smule ligesom mit sprog»: Manifestationer af sproglig opmærksomhed hos tre elever i 1., 5. og 7. klasse. Nordand – Nordisk tidsskrift for andrespråksforskning, 18(2), 92-109
• Drachmannn, N., Daryai-Hansen, P., & Krogager Andersen, L. (in press). Translanguaging via en flersprogethedsdidaktik: Anbefalinger til praksis. Sproglæreren, 3, (2023).
• Drachmann, N., Haukås, Å., & Lundberg, A. (2023). Identifying pluralistic approaches in language subjects in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden – A comparative curriculum analysis. Language, Culture and Curriculum, 36(3), 327-342. https://doi.org/10.1080/07908318.2022.2156528
• Drachmann, N., Haukås, Å. & Lundberg, A. (in press). Forskellige ambitioner for flersprogethed i Skandinavien. Sproglæreren, 3 (2023)
• Drachmann, N., Haukås, Å. & Lundberg, A. (in press). Olika ambitioner för flerspråkighet i Skandinavien. Lingua.
• Drachmann, N., Haukås, Å. & Lundberg, A. (in press). Ulike ambisjonar for fleirspråklegheit i Skandinavia. Bedre Skole.
• Drachmann, N., Jensen, T. & Bisgaard, T. (2022). Det flersprogede klasserum: Elevernes sproglige repertoire som ressource i sprogundervisningen. Liv i Skolen, 1 (2022), 84-93.
• Drachmann, N., Jensen, T., Mohan, S. B. S. & Østerbye, M. S. (2022). Flersprogethedsdidaktik på tværs af klassetrin – praksiserfaringer fra sproguger på Nørre Fælled Skole. Sproglæreren, 1 (2022), 31-35.
• Drachmann, N., Volsgaard Hansen, S., & Heunicke, H. (2022). Flere sprog i spil – om flersprogethedsdidaktik (podcast).
• Krogager Andersen, L. K. (accepted). Ein ideeller Kontext pour translanguaging. In A. Holmen & H. Thise (Eds.), Flere sprog i læringen. Translanguaging i ungdomsuddannelserne. Samfundslitteratur.

• On www.folkeskolen.dk – journal for teachers, 01.09.20: Forskningsprojekt vil undersøge elevers sproglige opmærksomhed op gennem skolen.
• On www.folkeskolen.dk – journal for teachers, 16.11.20: Tysktime på islandsk, tyrkisk og norsk.
• On www.folkeskolen.dk – journal for teachers, 22.02.23: Byg bro til elevernes sproglige ressourcer i tysk.