Greetings. Ask your multilingual students to teach their classmates a greeting in their home language. Develop a routine whereby, at the start of the day, you greet your students in the school language, and then in each of their home languages, with the whole class responding to the series of greetings accordingly.

Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. People who speak several languages are also called polyglots. Multilingual speakers have acquired and maintained at least one language during childhood, the so-called first language (L1).

For society, the importance is in better understanding and mutual acceptance of people from diverse backgrounds. Multilingualism allows societies to move beyond simple tolerance toward a more peaceful coexistence and mutual respect.

Here are some suggestions:

1. Playfully point out words that sound similar even though they are in different languages. You can do this throughout the day.
2. Use routines to incorporate vocabulary in multiple languages.
3. Praise your child’s use of different languages.
4. Make celebrations multilingual occasions.

Embrace all the languages spoken in the school, both in word and in deed. Use visual support around the school, verbal support in and out of class, and affective support to let all children know that their first/home language has value.

Secondly, multilingualism threatens nationalism. At the most practical level, communicational challenges within a country can act as an impediment to commerce and industry and disrupt the nation. More seriously, however, multilingualism could destroy nationalism.

List of the Advantages of Multilingualism

• You have more career prospects available to you because of multilingualism.
• It creates an opportunity for early diversity.
• Multilingualism improves a person’s working memory.
• Learning one new language makes it easier to learn more.

It has been found that multilingualism affects the structure, and essentially, the cytoarchitecture of the brain. Language learning boosts brain plasticity and the brain’s ability to code new information. Early language learning plays a significant role in the formation of memory circuits for learning new information.

Interactions with others who don’t speak English will also be a major disadvantage to many monolingual English speakers. Because of rapid changes that the world experiences day in and out, businesses have spread out and not only moved maybe across the state, but in a whole other country.

Monoglottism (Greek μόνος monos, “alone, solitary”, + γλῶττα glotta, “tongue, language”) or, more commonly, monolingualism or unilingualism, is the condition of being able to speak only a single language, as opposed to multilingualism. Multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world’s population.

English is the largest language in the world, if you count both native and non-native speakers. If you count only native speakers, Mandarin Chinese is the largest. Mandarin Chinese is the largest language in the world when counting only first language (native) speakers.

Australia schools typically taught more culturally prestigious languages like French and German, which were not spoken by many migrants. So an English speaking country like Australia has a high proportion of monolingual English speakers simply because there has been little practical incentive to change that situation.

In most countries of immigration, linguistic diversity is by and large ignored by policy makers. If there are language-related policies, they take a deficit view of migrants and their children and focus on improving their English (or whatever the national language may be).

This is another instance in which there is a rule that most native speakers aren’t aware of. It is: “like” excludes; “such as” includes. Use “such as” when you’re giving examples of something, and “like” when you want to express similarity.

Yes! All native English speakers make grammatical mistakes while speaking, and a good 50% make mistakes while writing.

There are multiple reasons for grammatical & spelling errors. Spelling errors can partially easily arise from the fact that spelling is far from a skill that’s hardwired for the brain to pick up without being taught, and the more irregular a spelling system is the harder it is for an individual to pick it up.

Generally, in spoken English, native speakers make errors for a variety of reasons: they say it the way they hear it – “Could of/would of, etc.” for “could’ve/would’ve, etc.”; “pacifically” for “specifically”

So after this long explanation, the answer is no. Most native English speakers do not learn English grammar. It is absorbed naturally by listening, imitating, reading, writing, and so on.

To be fair, most native English speakers don’t know much about grammar because… well, why would we? We don’t have to know the names of all the verb tenses or be able to explain what a gerund or infinitive is in order to speak English fluently and correctly.

A native speaker is someone who has gained knowledge of a language from birth, as his or her first language. It is the language they first learnt to speak, read, and write – the language they primarily used at home, school, play, and work.

Native speakers of English learn to use variations in tenses for past, present and future. They are taught as ‘Participles’.

The most common tense used by native speakers is the present simple.

The Present – Simple Present Tense is the most commonly used tense in the English language, and you will most often use it to talk about your habits, actions you perform regularly, or just general facts. When you’re talking about an action that is happening as you speak, always use the Present Continuous Tense.

What is the Formula for All Tenses?

Before we begin, here’s a list of the 12 verb tenses in English:

• Present Simple.
• Present Continuous/Progressive.
• Present Perfect.
• Present Perfect Continuous/Progressive.
• Past Simple.
• Past Continuous/Progressive.
• Past Perfect.
• Past Perfect Continuous/Progressive.

As a general rule, the verb tense you are using should be consistent throughout your sentence and your paragraph. For example, the sentence “We had eaten (past perfect tense) dinner, and then we talked (simple past tense)” should be written as “We ate (simple past tense) dinner, and then we talked (simple past tense)”.

If something is taking place right in the moment, then you’ll want to use the present simple tense. It’s usually the most basic form of the verb. But you can also use this to describe something that regularly, or always happens. Remember that with the third person (he/she/it) you need to add an “s” at the end, usually.

Writers should be careful to use the exact tense needed to describe, narrate, or explain. Do not switch from one tense to another unless the timing of an action demands that you do. Keep verb tense consistent in sentences, paragraphs, and essays.

How To Choose the Right Tense!

1. Using the present simple tense. The present simple tense is the one you’ll use the most often.
2. Using the present continuous tense.
3. Using the past simple tense.
4. Using the past perfect tense.
5. Past perfect continuous.
6. Simple future.
7. Your turn.