This glossary collects some key words and expressions you will find within the GMCM teacher training modules and the related teaching modules. It includes highly relevant terms in the fields of global citizenship education and multilingual pedagogies.
Inclusive education
Inclusive education is an approach to teaching that seeks to accommodate individual differences in learning.
Indigenous language
A language that is native to a region, as opposed to languages that arrived in the area later due to processes of migration and/or colonisation.
Language attitude
The feelings and beliefs people have about a certain language or language variety.
Language policy
Laws, regulations, rules and practices about language use in a society or group.
Language rights (or Linguistic rights)
Rights that protect individuals’ and communities’ language use.
Languagism
Discrimination based on features of language such as accent, syntax, or vocabulary.
Linguistic diversity
The differences within and between languages, and the multiplicity of languages and their use.
Linguistic inclusion
Valuing all languages with the aim of nurturing and protecting them.
Linguistic landscape
The ways in which languages are used and/or present in a particular space.
Linguistic repertoire
The set of skills and knowledge a person has of one or more languages.
Migration language
A language spoken within a migrant community.
Minority language
A language spoken by a minority of the population in a state. It is often assigned a lower cultural, economic, political and social status than the state’s majority language.
Minority language education
The learning and teaching of a minority language, either as a subject or as a medium of instruction.
Multilingual pedagogies
Teaching approaches which acknowledge and draw on multiple languages within a classroom as valuable resources for teaching and learning.
Multilingualism
Any level of proficiency in and use of more than one language, either by an individual or group.
Planned obsolescence
The practice of deliberately designing products that can no longer be repaired and must be replaced.
Privileges
Benefits stemming from social structures which advantage a particular person or group.