Multicultural and Bilingual Learners By: Talon Adlesperger

1. Multicultural and Bilingual
Learners
TALON ADLESPERGER
DR. G
ED 220-8095
1/30/2015

2. One Learning
Strategy I plan to
Use to
Accommodate a
Multicultural
Learner:
I plan on taking basic
information and turning it into
a song which also includes
some of their primary
language as well.
The video to the right is of
Haitian children singing and
dancing after learning their
body parts in English.

3. My Second
Teaching
Strategy that I will
Implement in the
Classroom:
With multicultural learners, I
would have a culture day
once a week until we had
covered each culture. The
students from that culture
could share their personal
experiences and customs.
As well as cooking the
foods of the places
studied.

4. The Third
Teaching
Strategy that I
would use in the
Classroom:
I would use
teacher and
peer coaching in
my classroom for
the students who
are having
difficulties in the
course.

5. Ways to make Multicultural Learners
Feel Welcome in the Classroom

6. Additional Ways of making the
Multicultural Learners feel Welcome
SMILE! 
Have Welcoming body language

7. In the
Classroom: • ALLOW THEM TO SHARE THEIR OWN
EXPERIENCES
• ALLOW PEER-ASSISTED LEARNING AND
SOCIAL INTERACTION
• SET A ROUTINE
• Having a routine helps reduce anxiety
• KEEP VOCABULARY ACCESSIBLE
• KEEP WELL STOCKED ON LIBRARY BOOKS
• Try have books about different homelands
• MAKE STUDENTS FEEL COMFORTABLE
WITH MAKING MISTAKES
• Without taking risks, the students will not
learn

8. Additional
Classroom
Techniques
• EXERCISE THESE NEEDS
DAILY:
• Reading
• Writing
• Speaking
• Listening
• USE VISUALS
• Bus schedule
• Post-cards
• Video clips

9. Ways to Help
Multicultural
Learners be
Successful
• ALL TEACHERS SHOULD VIEW
THEMSELVES AS LANGUAGE
TEACHERS
• UNDERSTAND THAT THEY ARE
NOT JUST ENTERING A NEW
SCHOOL, THEY ARE ALSO
ENTERING A NEW CULTURE
• ASK ABOUT THE STUDENTS’
LIFE OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL
• Homework might not be a
priority if other things are
expected of them