Developing Young Children’s Multingualism and Pluriculturalism

Abstract

Multilingual and pluricultural education are strictly tied together. A definition of the basic ideas concerning both processes implies the clarification of several issues:

1. The study of foreign culture within language; 2. The understanding of divergent cultural patterns; 3. Cultural differences in nonverbal communication; 4. Understanding art of a different culture; 5. The training of teachers for intercultural and interlinguistic education.

The final word of success rests in well-planned experimental projects, i.e. long range research on an international basis.