Presentation by Lisa Stevens at The Language Show 2020. This session explores the notion that learning a language is about so much more than lists of words and grammar. Drawing from the speaker’s own observations and experiences as a lifelong language learner as well as a teacher and mother, we will consider the importance of context, culture, communication, celebration and connections in nurturing learners with an enduring passion for language(s).

1. Join Lisa Stevens (@lisibo) at
as she suggests that language
learning is about

2. Westlife wisdom
“It’s more than words
And it’s more than what you say
It’s the things you do.”

3. This session explores the notion that learning a
language is about so much more than lists of
words and grammar. Drawing from the speaker’s
own observations and experiences as a lifelong
language learner as well as a teacher and mother,
we will consider the importance of context, culture,
communication, celebration and connections in
nurturing learners with an enduring passion for
language(s).

4. Words are important

5. So is something to stick them
together.

6. Auntie Susan

7. However, it takes more than
bricks and mortar to make a
wall.

8. What do you need?
 Context
 Communication
 Culture
 Celebration
 Connections

9. Context
“When you are eating with so-and-so, whose bowl
do you fill first?”

10. Jack Herbert

13. Too much of a good thing…

14. Communication

17. "One of the hardest
things in life is having
words in your heart that
you can't utter."
—James Earl Jones

18. ‘If in doubt, make it up!’

19. How do we deal with mistakes?

22. Are we teaching the words
children want and/or need?

24. Not just
words.

27. Hands of the World
Makaton
across
countries and
languages

28. Connections

32. Included looking at the beauty of words

33. Etymology

35. https://somethinelse.com/projects/something-rhymes-with-purple/

36. https://www.lightbulblanguages.co.uk/resources-language-links.htm

37. From LightBulbLanguages
https://www.lightbulblanguages.co.uk/resources/
PrimarySpanish/days.pdf

38. CULUL CHUCLATI ROSAS CULUL SALMON CULUL ABU CULUL UBI
NTSUNDU PINKI ORENJI NGWEVU MFUSA
COKLAT MERAH MUDA ORANYE ABU ABU UNGU
KHAVE RENGI PEMBE TURUNCU GRI MOR
BRUN ROSA ORANSJE GRÅ LILLA
KAPAMPANGAN
XHOSA
MALTESE
INDONESIAN
TURKISH
NORWEGIAN

40. Celebration

42. LANGUAGES
There are so many languages; I can't count there's so much.
There's Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, African and Dutch.
There are so many languages
In this world
But very few of them have I been told.
There's Spanish and French
I'm sure,
And Dutch, Maori and many more.
There are so many languages, every one is unique.
There are so many languages about which we can all speak.

44. Be proud!
Show off your
‘super power!’
And share it!

45. Culture

50. https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/intercultural-studies-language-culture

52. Intercultural Projects
52

53. eTwinning
https://www.britishcouncil.org/
etwinning
It’s an amazing way of
making links and finding out
about others in a fun
and safe way.
53

54. https://erasmusplusletsgocultural.blogspot.com/

57. Current
affairs

58. "For me, words are a form of action, capable
of influencing change. Their articulation
represents a complete, lived experience."
—Ingrid Bengis

59. "By words we learn thoughts, and by
thoughts we learn life." —Jean Baptiste
Girard

61. My website – ¡Vámonos!
lisibo.com
Twitter - @lisibo
Ltd
Languages in Primary
Schools (Facebook)