Offer griffbereitMINI

Offer griffbereitMINI

What does griffbereitMINI do?

griffbereitMINI promotes early childhood development and in particular language development through toddler-friendly activities with *parents/*families, such as playing and singing together in the family languages and in German. This creates an important foundation for the acquisition of language skills.

In doing so, the programme empowers the parents/families to be the actors themselves, as they are the first language role models and have the closest relationship with their children in everyday life.

In so-called griffbereitMINI-In these groups, they learn how to strengthen their children's general and linguistic development. They are supported by trained, mostly multilingual parent guides and/or educational specialists.

Toddlers in their first year of life with and without an immigration background thus come into contact with German and other languages at a very early age. Thus offers griffbereitMINI the possibility of Multilingualism as a potential of children to take up.

Development

Multilingual children develop in the same way as monolingual children

Excessive demand

Multilingualism is an opportunity, not an excessive demand

Identity

Language and identity are closely linked

Language blends

Language blends are part of natural communication and identity in multilingual families

Posture

The attitude towards speakers of one language determines how successful the acquisition of another language is.

Factors

Language acquisition is individual and depends on various factors

Standard

Multilingualism is the norm, monolingualism the exception

Support

How can I support language acquisition?