Multilingual childhood (PDF)

Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject Pedagogy - Intercultural Pedagogy, grade: 1,5, University of Cooperative Education Ravensburg, language: English, abstract: The acquisition of the language begins with the birth of the child. The first years of life are the basis for language acquisition. During this time, children can effortlessly learn their mother tongue and, if necessary, a second language. It is therefore important to support the children in this phase of their lives in their language development. As educators, we play a big role in this. It is a central elementary educational task for us.

The dialogue between mother and child begins in the womb. The child responds to familiar voices. The parents' body language, timbre and intonation convey feelings and moods that the child understands long before it can speak. This is one of the reasons why later it is important for some children to speak in their mother tongue/first language. They associate certain feelings with it. It conveys security when you hear or speak this language. I chose the topic "multilingualism" because it has interested me for a long time and I think that it already plays an important role and will play an even more important role in the near future. In class, I was able to get my first impressions of this topic.