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PDF - European portfolio for pre-primary educators (2015)
The plurilingual and intercultural dimension
PEPELINO is a portfolio aimed at students embarking on initial professional learning to become pre-primary educators and persons working with children under the age of 7 who wish to improve their professional learning.
It is a tool for personal reflection on professional competences, focusing on the plurilingual and intercultural dimension of work with pre-primary children.
It was developed at the European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe by a team of experts from Austria, the Czech Republic, France and Greece with the assistance of teacher educators from the 33 member states of the ECML and other countries which are involved in its work.
Based on language policy documents of the Language Policy Unit of the Council of Europe and the European Commission and on reference documents produced by the ECML, it seeks to encourage consideration of educational and policy issues related to the acquisition of languages of socialisation, the development of plurilingual competence, intercultural education and recognition of children’s individual language repertoires when implementing curricula in different learning contexts.
Introduction page
The Council of Europe and languages page
A few key ideas concerning PEPELINO page
Personal statement page
Language biography page
Reflection on professional competences page
Analysing and adapting how to talk to children page
Responding positively to linguistic and cultural diversity page
Taking account of the way in which young children acquire languages page
Organising activities on the theme of languages and diversity page
Taking children’s individual needs into account page
Supporting the linguistic development of children with other first language page
Cooperating with the children’s families page
Working as a team page
My foreign languages page
Dossier page
List of descriptors of professional competences
The plurilingual and intercultural dimension
PEPELINO is a portfolio aimed at students embarking on initial professional learning to become pre-primary educators and persons working with children under the age of 7 who wish to improve their professional learning.
It is a tool for personal reflection on professional competences, focusing on the plurilingual and intercultural dimension of work with pre-primary children.
It was developed at the European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe by a team of experts from Austria, the Czech Republic, France and Greece with the assistance of teacher educators from the 33 member states of the ECML and other countries which are involved in its work.
Based on language policy documents of the Language Policy Unit of the Council of Europe and the European Commission and on reference documents produced by the ECML, it seeks to encourage consideration of educational and policy issues related to the acquisition of languages of socialisation, the development of plurilingual competence, intercultural education and recognition of children’s individual language repertoires when implementing curricula in different learning contexts.