SYTL Language Adventures - Flipbook - Page 8
School library: authentic and dual/multiple languages resources
Fairytales, nursery rhymes, comic strips and other texts renect the cultures
wherein they originated. It is important to enable access to original texts,
because these texts also renect the contexts of the countries where those
languages are spoken and therefore present cultural clues.
Other resources, such as dual language books, help pupils access simple texts,
explore their illustrations, hear and read stories. Pupils and parents/guardians
who are competent in diferent languages can be asked to read for others. Dual
language texts also ofer wonderful opportunities to identify how some
languages use diferent registers for formal and informal interactions, for
example, the diference between
