What is curious and distinguishing about our group is the fact that we are all bilingual students. Of course, we have all brought different personal identity funds into our team, however we have got well known advantages of being bilingual. Among languages we speak there are English, German, Russian, Spanish, Ukrainian and Valencia. Despite of such a variety of languages we still consider our mother tongue to be our L1. Why? Probably because circumstances we live in still allow each of us to enjoy the use of the first language. Having said that, I do believe there are always some situations when we can subconsciously switch into L2 because some relevant knowledge is coded by means of it and this might typically be a very specific notion or reference.
Speaking
about society we live in I would say it’s a bilingual one in case we are talking
about Valencian Community having in mind Spanish and Valencian languages.
However, it’s a plurilingual one if we look at it through the European Union
Lens. We perfectly know that more than two languages can be official languages
in some countries or their regions (Belgium, Switzerland, Ireland). That’s why
plurilingual education has been highly promoted recently. Obviously, we are
going to encourage bilingualism in our classroom because we think it plays a
vital role in helping students to get to know and to understand different
cultures. Therefore, it’s a task of a teacher to create a positive environment
where no language will get a higher status, on the contrary, different
languages must harmoniously complement one another.
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