Mei French – Reciprocal Multilingual Learning in Middle Years

In this webinar, Dr Mei French presents Reciprocal Multilingual Learning, a model of EAL/D teaching which has been developed from research into how multilingual students use their linguistic repertoires across their lives and learning. In this session, Mei presents some principles and an approach to planning and teaching that teachers can use to engage students’ multilingual resources through EAL/D teaching and across the curriculum. During the PL, Mei gives examples to show how these approaches work in practical ways, and can be connected to the Australian Curriculum. Examples are drawn from middle school classrooms, but the approach can be adapted to other contexts.