By Niya Yanakieva | Development Specialist
Dear supporters,
Happy New Year!
We hope it will be one full of joy, good health and more equal opportunities for everyone in our society!
Our project “Bulgarian as a second language” is moving forward and we have some exciting news to share with you.
As you know, for the past two years we have been working hard on developing additional language materials to support students whose mother tongue is different from Bulgarian and who are struggling to obtain knowledge at school because of this language barrier.
We have so far developed a few useful instruments that can help teachers diagnose the language gaps of their students and work purposefully to improve their literacy levels. We also finalised the first ever book for learning the alphabet specifically designed for students for whom bulgarian is a second language.
We are now working on supporting students’ language development during classes that are different from Bulgarian language and literature classes.By learning with the help of illustrated stories to explain key mathematical concepts, students will build interdisciplinary links between mathematics and the Bulgarian language, develop their reading literacy and storytelling skills.This handbook with stories will target students in 1st and 2nd grade but will be useful to any student who can benefit from developing their vocabulary and maths skills in primary school.
We are also developing a basic vocabulary book for students in primary school containing the most necessary language material for students to work with.This book will contain both words from everyday life and words necessary for learning the material at school in all subject areas. This type of vocabulary book for students with a different mother tongue is still lacking in the context of the Bulgarian education system.
This will help both teachers and students in the path to language development in primary school.
Thank you for supporting us in this journey and for being an active part in achieving positive change for all students for whom Bulgarian is not a mother tongue.
We hope you will consider upgrading your regular donation or if you have been a one time donor-donating again, so we can bring this project closer to its big aim!
With gratitude,
Teach For Bulgaria team
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