TALES@home

European project Erasmus+

Start: September 2016

Presentation: May 2018 - Conference Brussels

End: August 2018

Talking About Language and EmotionS at home.

Why this project?

• Members of multilingual families sometimes struggle with the multilingual context they live in. They have negative connotations towards one or some of the languages spoken at home or in society.
• Professionals (educators, social/medical workers, teachers etc.) confronted with these multilingual families find it difficult to help them express these attitudes and to bend the negative connotations into positive ones.

We want to:

• address non-formal language learning in the multilingual home. More specifically the motivations and beliefs in the family about language use and learning.
• empower parents and by extension the whole family to manage language use at home and to create a positive and stimulating environment.

How do we support multilingual families?

• By creating an open atmosphere in which decisions on language maintenance/shift are considered and are debatable.
• By reinforcing the mutual understanding between different generations so they are able to handle negative attitudes and reinforce the positive ones.

What will we produce?

• A digital app used by multilingual families with support of professionals
• A user’s  guide and film to sustain professionals with practical instructions for using the app
• Training for professionals
• May 2018: International Conference:
  ‘Languages@home: empowering multilingual families’ in Brussels

We develop these tools by ‘User centered Design’: involving multilingual families and professionals throughout the whole project.

For more information about the project and resulting publications, please refer to this website.

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Partners:

Foyer vzw - Brussels - Belgium

Soros International House - Vilnius - Lithuania

Universita Degli Studi Di Palermo - Palermo - Italy

European Academy of Bozen/Bolzano - Bolzano - Italy

Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Kortrijk - Belgium

Double Helix recourses - London - England

European Network of Social Authorities - Venezia - Italy

Knowledge Centre Sicial Europe - Brussels - Belgium