Enthusiastic, with a bag full of autumn stuff, I enter the super diverse primary school in Breda. Today again I have the wonderful task of supporting multilingual newcomers in their language development. The group of toddlers looks curiously at the autumn leaves, chestnuts, acorns and beechnuts that I put on the table. We talk about autumn and nature and practice with the words. When I ask the Afghan girl if she knows what the rough, spiky husk of the chestnut is, she says: “Yes, the corona.”
A version of this article also appeared in NRC in the morning of October 13, 2021
Enthusiastic, with a bag full of autumn stuff, I enter the super diverse primary school in Breda. Today again I have the wonderful task of supporting multilingual newcomers in their language development. The group of toddlers looks curiously at the autumn leaves, chestnuts, acorns and beechnuts that I put on the table. We talk about autumn and nature and practice with the words. When I ask the Afghan girl if she knows what the rough, spiky husk of the chestnut is, she says: “Yes, the corona.”
A version of this article also appeared in NRC in the morning of October 13, 2021
Enthusiastic, with a bag full of autumn stuff, I enter the super diverse primary school in Breda. Today again I have the wonderful task of supporting multilingual newcomers in their language development. The group of toddlers looks curiously at the autumn leaves, chestnuts, acorns and beechnuts that I put on the table. We talk about autumn and nature and practice with the words. When I ask the Afghan girl if she knows what the rough, spiky husk of the chestnut is, she says: “Yes, the corona.”
A version of this article also appeared in NRC in the morning of October 13, 2021
Enthusiastic, with a bag full of autumn stuff, I enter the super diverse primary school in Breda. Today again I have the wonderful task of supporting multilingual newcomers in their language development. The group of toddlers looks curiously at the autumn leaves, chestnuts, acorns and beechnuts that I put on the table. We talk about autumn and nature and practice with the words. When I ask the Afghan girl if she knows what the rough, spiky husk of the chestnut is, she says: “Yes, the corona.”
A version of this article also appeared in NRC in the morning of October 13, 2021