View the survey results here

In my previous post, I explained a bit of the background as to how I got to starting this project. The long story short is that I learned my students (and the school in general) contained a huge linguistic repertoire, with almost all students being bilingual and biliterate in Galician and Spanish. This was FASCINATING to me, and I wanted to learn more and make a connection with my students through the classroom.

From the very first day of class in September, we began discussing language and multilingualism. One of the first activities we did was an “interview” activity where students spoke to their partners and recorded the languages spoken by their classmates, the languages they wanted to learn, and why each person thinks it’s important to speak multiple languages.  We compiled a list on the board of all the different languages, and each of my classes had an extensive list resembling this one that I captured here: