Adapt for success: Supporting multilingual learners in Canadian classrooms
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2025
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Dubinina, Aleksandra
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In today’s multicultural classrooms in Canada, there is a growing need for content teachers to understand the intricacies of working with culturally and linguistically diverse learners and being prepared to employ teaching strategies and offer teaching resources that create an inclusive environment where all learners have equal chances to succeed. Drawing from teaching approaches like Communicative Language Teaching, Content-Based Instruction, Sheltered Instruction, and Culturally Responsive Teaching, this project presents a professional development workshop tailored for pre-service content teachers and ELL specialists. This workshop aims to develop abilities in teaching and supporting multilingual learners in the mainstream classrooms. The workshop provides a general understanding of the scaffolding and differentiation as core strategies designed to help teachers effectively teach multilingual learners in content areas while promoting language development and fostering supportive classroom environment.
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communicative language teaching, culturally responsive teaching, English language learners, multilingual learners, sheltered instruction, K-12 classrooms