Allowing and encouraging the use of multiple languages at the same time can create more opportunities to validate the way the children already communicate and make meaning. It can facilitate an approach that values the knowledge and skills the children already have, providing a focus on and validating their assets and strengths. It stresses for finding ways that allow for fluid language practices to emerge, to acknowledge and honour diverse voices and ways of communicating and to celebrate the knowledge the children already possess and their multilingual abilities.
What does this mean in practice?
-Inviting children to share in their own language when reflecting, sharing an opinion, sharing information about what they made
-Reflecting in groups, with children they speak the same language
-asking how is ... called in your own language?
-Include the children's mother languages by writing main/key words in their languages and the main assignment
-Allowing them to share in their own languages
-Asking questions, discussing through translation apps