Earlier in May, we presented at the Bilingualism and Multilingualism Conference a the beautiful UBCO campus in Kelowna BC. We work within a Community Cultural Wealth (Yosso, 2005) framework that sees home language knowledge as an essential resource and also a form of resistance of dominant, monolingual ideologies. During our “dual-language” sessions, we want children to be comfortable sharing their languages and to feel proud of their language knowledge. We work with parents and teachers to find ways to enhance and highlight strategies for home language transmission and language maintenance.
In our presentation, we analyzed 3 different implementation models. The goal was to understand the nature of the local implementation setting and partnership, to evaluate the delivery of the program, and to evaluate the advantages and challenges of each model.


We had to adapt our program for the setting and delivery approach. Coordination with our site partners was a key contributor to the success. We also adapted our sessions to better align with the time and attention of children during the sessions depending on the delivery.
Through this research, we learned that the online delivery contributed to engaging parents. We honed in on strategies to support multilingual children in using their languages in the program – through models and coaching. And identified the advantages of working collaboratively to foster co-learning with parents and teachers.

We’re working on a manuscript to share this learning more broadly! Thanks to the team and our collaboratorating partners and families for joining us in this journey.
AM