Forthcoming conferences

alongside more traditionally accepted languages like mother tongue. Ultimately, throughout this learning journey it has been, and remains, our continuing aim to provide all our children with the opportunity to develop their full linguistic repertoire at ISH, whether they have home, additional, or identity languages – or all of the above.

References

Crisfield E (2018) Home Language Curricula-Where Should it Come From? Educational Blog: Crisfield Educational Consulting. Available at: www.crisfieldeducationalconsulting.com/single-post/2018/01/09/ Home-language-curricula---where-should-it-come-from Accessed on: 11 January 2018. Chumak-Horbatsch R (2012) Linguistically appropriate practice : a guide for working with young immigrant children. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Cummins J (2000) Language, power, and pedagogy: Bilingual children in the crossfire. Buffalo, NY: Multilingual Matters, Ltd. Cummins J (2001) Bilingual children’s mother tongue: Why is it important for education? Sprogforum. 19, 15-20 Hainer-Violand J (2012) Unit 2.1 Bilingual and Proud. Curriculum Materials: English as a Second Language, 4th-12th. Department of Education Puerto Rico. Pollock D and van Reken R (2009) Third Culture Kids: Growing up Among Worlds (revised edition). London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing UNESCO (2003) Education in a Multilingual World. UNESCO Education Position Paper. Paris: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Mindy McCracken is Mother Tongue Coordinator, Lara Rikers is EAL Coordinator, Sue Tee is Assistant Principal and Juliette van Eerdewijk is Primary Principal at the International School of The Hague, the Netherlands Email: s.tee@ishthehague.nl

May 12-14, COBIS Annual Conference, London, UK. May 27-June 1, NAFSA Annual Conference and Expo, Philadelphia, US. July 25-27, CIS Australia Conference, Brisbane. July 26-29, IB Americas Global Conference, San Diego, CA, US. September 11-14, EAIE Annual Conference, Geneva, Switzerland. October 4-6, IB AEM Global Conference, Vienna, Austria. October 25-27, EARCOS Leadership Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. November 7-10, CIEE Annual Conference, Barcelona, Spain.