Using the Apprenticeship Language Learning Strategy and "Talking to the Whole Wide World" to give children a second language, a broad intercultural perspective, and a desire for more.

1. Every Child, Every Opportunity
Giving Your Students the Best Start in Foreign Languages

2. Foreign Languages
are an opportunity
for all children...
They offer:
brain development,
literacy advantages,
global perspective,
intercultural empathy,
and self-confidence.
These matter to all children.

3. But every foreign
language offers
different
opportunities, which
will matter to
different individuals
at different times in
their lives.
How can we keep
their options open?

4. Becoming Bilingual
☺
☹ • Current practices in
schooling fail to give
most children a
second language to
a useable standard.

5. Teachers Are The Key
•The shortage of suitable
specialist language teachers is
unchanging, because bilingual
people get better opportunities
outside schools.
•Dependence on specialists
also models to your students
that foreign languages are a
minority interest (or talent) and
offers them too limited learning
and practice opportunities.
Set them up to succeed!

6. Classroom teachers can
provide the fundamentals
of every part of the
curriculum, because their
relationship to the child,
and their
everyday availability,
are more critical than their
specialisation in the subject.
Foreign Languages Are No Exception

7. A New Strategy to Solve an Old Problem
• Professor Joseph Lo Bianco, author of
Australia’s Languages Policy, recommends ‘a
universal apprenticeship in learning how to
Text
learn languages’ in the primary years, so that
students will ‘successfully transfer such skills
to other languages’.*
• This 2-step process enables many more
children to to master a target language.
* ‘Second Languages and Australian Schooling’, ACER 2009

8. E PERANTO:
affordable communication
Equipping generalist teachers to provide the
world’s simplest LOTE can give all children the
experience of being bilingual in as little as
100-200 hours.
You can discover the features of Esperanto that
make this possible, and see some of the dozens
of peer-cultures accessible through Esperanto
here (http://www.mondeto.com/primary-esperanto-video.html)

9. Empowering Change
These materials were
developed by primary
teachers to enable their
peers to learn
Esperanto while
teaching the language
to their classes, to
fluency.

10. Benefits of Integrating Apprenticeship
Language Learning (ALL)
• Bilingualism before end of primary schooling.
• Affordable strategy does not impose too much
on other programs.
• A head start in both English literacy and any
high school foreign language.
• Meeting foreign friends halfway is an exercise
in intercultural respect.
• Flexible skills and confidence for later
engagement with languages through life.

11. Bilingual and ready for more...
...LANGUAGES!!!

12. About the Author
Penelope Vos (BSc Dip Ed) is a teacher, author and CEO of
Mondeto Educational Resources.
She is a graduate of Murdoch University and the Montessori World Education
Institute, and has twenty years of teaching experience, in Science, Art and Esperanto
in private, public and religious schools.
Her most recent books are "Australian LOTE: Achieving Broad and Deep Competence
in Languages at School" (2007) and "Talking to the Whole Wide World" (2009), a stand-
alone resource to equip primary school generalists to teach a second language to
fluency, in a context of global intercultural awareness, without prior training.
The International Montessori Conference, 2010 saw the launch of the long-in-
development “Talking to the Whole Wide World” Montessori Materials.
Thank you