The document discusses an approach to language learning and plurilingualism at the Colegio Santo Tomás de Aquino La Milagrosa school. It mentions challenges like a lack of funds but emphasizes designing a community project involving all teachers. Recommendations from Simon Harris and Glenn Doman are presented, with Doman believing children have high potential intelligence at birth and can learn quickly from flashcards presented in groups of 10 with accurate facts. The school aims to establish a European Cell to help guide their path towards plurilingualism.
7. Previous facts: - There is a gap in the regional law as far as private schools run with public funds are concerned. - We cannot become members of European Sections because they are established by law only for State Public Schools. - Plurilingualism is a demand of regional, state and EU governments, and required by society (jobs, studies, personal developement etc)
8. What can we do? … dozens of actions can be carried out…
9. Are there any innovations left in this field? INNOVATE There are a lot of items to be researched for every single school, either public of private, as students, backgrounds, teachers …are different
10. Simon Harris (British Council – Barcelona): Language learning activities are based on the needs , motivations , and characteristics of the learners.
11. We can learn what these needs , motivations , and characteristics are, by answering these questions: How much time can our students afford to spend? What will our students need to do with the language? What will our students need to learn in order to do what they want? What makes our students want to learn? What sort of people are our students? What knowledge, skill and experience do their teachers possess? What access do our students have to resources?
12. All these items made us design our path into pluriligualism, taking into account: We will have little or no funds at all for it… It must be a community project All teachers must get involved somehow… We must find our Raison d´être as far as learning languages is concerned…
23. Santo Tomás de Aquino La Milagrosa European Cell Partially based on Glenn Doman’s studies and publications; he strongly believes that children have at the moment of Birth a high potential intelligence, which makes them learn a lot of things very quickly if we design and present these items in an appropiate way…
24. Glenn Doman: Intelligence is the degree of ability that a person has got in order to see the difference between how things are, and how they could be, and make them be as close as possible as they could be. We should spend more time doing things for the world rather than being worried about it.
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26. Category: British and american meals Bit of Intelligence: Bangers and mash Program of intelligence: Typical British meals (Sociocultural information) Pronunciation (sounds of English, no to be found in Spanish): / ’b N@ rz @ nd m /