as far as I know you are to use whatever helps communication with the child and their family, research basic phrases so that you can communicate with the child and the child can express their needs ie....toilet, drink, hello, goodbye....ect
our non English speaking child has issues with sharing and joining in so we make sure we taught the whole group how to say hello to the child....we use the word in the home launguage and then repeat it in english....I also make sure that we have welcome signs in the home launguage and that when I am making lables for our role play area, I also make labels in the home launguage too. we asked our parent to note down in a book all the words for things that the child was intrested in, they wrote it down, I wrote in next to it in a way that you can read phonically and then what the word is in English....we also sourced books from the book bus in the home launguage and that had Bilinual text for the child to take home and share with the parents....hope that helps.
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K3C168 bilingual/multilingual
Not had much experience with bilingual/multilingual children at my setting, I need to know if the setting should encourage communication in English and not use child,s home language at all or if setting should use both and get key words from parents when child starts.
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