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• How can we support bilingual children?
• Reflect on your own feelings about languages, culture, identity and education.
• Develop a positive and supportive approach to bilingualism in your program and with all families.
• Find out about every child's language and culture.
• Convey respect and interest in pronouncing names properly (if you don't know how then ask).
• Make a list of and learn useful survival words.
• Collect bilingual resources and integrate their use into the program on a daily basis.
• Represent and use children's languages and literacies in a range of written, oral and digital forms.
• Employ bilingual staff to speak in the home languages of the children.
• Encourage staff who speak other languages to use them (with each other, children and families).
• Model, display and use different languages consistently throughout the day.
• Encourage and support bilingual children to play and learn together in their languages.
• Provide information to parents about the importance of maintaining the home language, and how children can successfully become bilingual.