Being able to understand the diversity of pupils in teaching brings many opportunities to establish various innovations in order to achieve more efficient results of education. One of the current trends in education is supportive inclusive education that is based on respecting the diversity of pupils. This contribution understands inclusive education as a way of implementing the educational process that suits the developmental needs of all pupils. Based on this understanding it identifies factors that influence the performance of pupils coming from socially disadvantaged background and it describes implications relating to confidence, attitudes and motivation of these pupils to learn. Within stimulation of the developmental needs of socially disadvantaged pupils we analyse the possibility to create attractive educative environment by the means of cooperative learning.
The article provides a practical guide for Spanish language teachers on how to use Cooperative Learning (CL) to develop plurilingual competence in students by incorporating information about the smaller Romance languages of the Iberian Peninsula into Spanish as a Second or Foreign Language classes. It presents a didactic proposal of five lessons based on authentic texts – translations of The Little Prince into Spanish and four minor Romance languages (Catalan, Galician, Aragonese, and Alguerese – the Catalan dialect spoken in the Sardinian city of Alghero). The article contains a methodological description of the unit (linguistic content, setting objectives, creating CL groups, assigning roles to students, using CL techniques, etc.) and a detailed description of the language learning activities.
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