Multilingual Communication Development Video Series (~3 hours self-paced)
Support young multilingual children with confidence using our practical and engaging video series, created by children's speech pathologist Thida Hantun (CPSP) for educators and early childhood professionals.
With real-world examples, planning templates, and evidence-based guidance, this series equips you with the knowledge and tools to create inclusive, language-rich environments where multilingual children can thrive.
An online training series created for Kindy and early childhood educators to learn about multilingual communication development, created by our children's speech pathologist, Thida Hantun.
This 6-part video series guides you through everything you need to know about multilingual communication development in early childhood settings (scroll down for an overview of each lesson). It includes practical strategies—including modelling, recasting, and visuals—and guides you through planning targeted language support for individual children. Designed and created with the Australian Early Years Learning Framework and Kindy Uplift priority areas in mind, the content covered in this series gives you the tools to foster an inclusive and culturally responsive learning environment for all children to thrive in!
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There are 6 lessons that cover:
What is Multilingual Communication
The Different Types of Multilingual Communication Development
The Key Principles for Multilingual Language Progression
When to Seek Extra Help
The Top Strategies to Support Language Development
Making a Plan for English Language Progression
The training series links to the Australian Early Years Learning Framework and Kindy Uplift priority areas, especially around communication, inclusion, and emotional wellbeing. See below the bolded outcomes and priority areas the Multilingual Communication Development for Children online training series specifically targets...
The Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) five learning outcomes targeted in this series:
Children have a strong sense of identity
Children are connected with and contribute to their world
Children have a strong sense of well-being
Children are confident and involved learners
Children are effective communicators
The Kindy Uplift key priority areas targeted in this series:
Culturally safe, responsive and inclusive kindergarten programs
Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives
Equity and access for all
Social and emotional learning
Physicality
Executive function
Language and literacy
Mathematics and numeracy
These include summaries of information, extra tips, practical tasks, templates and examples; to help you apply your learnings.
Take a peak below!
In this first lesson of the multilingual communication development series, we explore what it means for a child to be multilingual and the typical features of their language development.
In Lesson 2 of the multilingual communication development series, we explore the two types of multilingual development, and how these types differ in how children acquire and use their languages, and what common features you might observe.
In Lesson 3 of the multilingual communication development series, we explore four key principles that support language progression in multilingual children: quantity over quality, receptive language, adjusting to the child’s level, and repetition over time.
In Lesson 4 of the multilingual communication development series, we cover when a multilingual child may need extra support for their speech or language development.
In Lesson 5 of the multilingual communication development series, we guide you through the top five strategies for supporting language growth: modelling, recasting, visuals, explicit vocabulary teaching, and Blanks Levels of Questions.
In Lesson 6 of the multilingual communication development series, you’ll learn how to bring all your knowledge together to practise planning targeted English language support for a multilingual child.
This is your final lesson of the series!
FAQ section
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This training is ideal for early childhood educators, Kindy teachers, learning support staff, and professionals working in early years settings. It’s also helpful for anyone supporting multilingual children’s communication and language growth. We've had other professionals share feedback that their learnings are useful to their work - including Allied Health Assistants and Speech Pathologists!
The online training series takes up to 3 hours to complete (including lesson activities and reviewing the downloadable worksheets). However, this is a self-paced training series, so you don't have to complete this all at once! Each video is between 3 and 9 minutes long.
After purchase, you'll have immediate access through your Podia account. You have 6 months from purchase date to complete the course.
You will have immediate access to the online training - simply login to your Podia account to get started.
Yes! You will be issued a certificate with your name and the name of the course after completing your final lesson.
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