Mediation and the plurilingual repertoire of learners
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Mediation between two or more (foreign) languages is a process that takes place every day in today's plurilingual and pluricultural society. The Council of Europe reflects this fact and, with the CEFR-Companion Volume (CoE, 2020) and the detailed development of scales and descriptors for individual mediation activities, is sending a clear signal that it is desirable to make mediation an integral part of foreign language teaching at all levels. Mediation competence, as it is understood in Companion Volume, builds on the learner's plurilingual and pluricultural repertoire. In other words: Interlingual mediation cannot be realised without plurilingual as well as pluricultural competence and, conversely, it is possible to develop these competences through mediation tasks and activities. In the oral presentation, the connection between plurilinguism and mediation and their synergy will be explained in more detail. The introduction will outline which pedagogical and multilingual didactic concepts are reflected in the current concept of mediation (CoE, 2020). The role of plurilingual and pluricultural competence in the mediation process is then shown and, last but not least, exemplary tasks are used to illustrate how learners' plurilingual and pluricultural repertoire can be built up and expanded through mediation and how their "multilanguage (learning) awareness" (Nied Curcio/Katelhön 2020: 149) can be trained. |