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- Week 1: Introduction to multilingualism and plurilingualism
- Week 2: Understanding bilingualism
- Week 3: Multilingualism in state and society, and the role of communities
- Week 4: Early Childhood Multilingualism
- Week 5: Multilingual school
- Week 6: Multilingual higher education
- Week 7: Interculturalism and intercultural communication
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MOOC: Multilingual Education
Week 4: Early Childhood Multilingualism
The acquisition of language is one of the most remarkable achievements of early childhood. By age 5, children essentially master the sound system and grammar of their home language(s) and acquire a vocabulary of thousands of words. Bilingual and plurilingual children do this in more than one language. In this week we will learn how the language acquisition process unfolds and when children reach various milestones.