Multilingual Moments at TIS

At TIS we acknowledge and celebrate our cultural and linguistic diversity. We are an international community and many different cultures and languages are represented in every classroom. This is an opportunity to share and learn from each other.  From a language perspective, this is a wonderful opportunity to compare key terms related to Units of Inquiry, as well as Literacy, Math and PSEL, and to find the differences and similarities that can help us apply our knowledge of morphology and notice cognate words. One of the strategies we use at TIS Elementary school is creating a language profile and a multilingual board in the classrooms. It is fairly easy. Same home language speakers get into small groups.  Sometimes it can be just one person. They decide what color should represent their language. We then create a language color key for the class.  This multilingual board can be used as a reference to translate and access the content, as well as to add more vocabulary as...

(Source: The Language Nerds The Language Nerds ) A tautology is an expression or phrase that says the same thing twice, just in a different way. Differently said, it is an expression that has two or more parts that are redundant, or synonymous. Most often, a tautology is considered undesirable and a fault of style and is avoided at all costs in literary works. Common speech, though, is filled with redundancies and tautologies. One famous redundant phrase that everybody uses is “ it is what it is ” right? Everybody can be redundant and tautologous, even George W. Bush when he famously said “Our nation must  come together  to  unite .” The names and expressions below are tautological in a different way. They’re unintentionally redundant. This happened because there is more than one language that goes into the name. Most people don’t understand how redundant these names are until they understand the foreign words that make them up. So here are the most famous places th...