The Association on Bilingualism
Grófin Culture House traditionally prepared a program for plurilingual children and invited Móðurmál to introduce our program and activities. We celebrated the International Mother Language Day by inviting children and their families to write letters in their own mother language to a relative or a friend, whether they live in Svalbard, Siglufjörður or Senegal. Easy …
Continue reading “International Mother Language Day: 21st February”
On February 2nd 2017, three Móðurmál teachers started teaching mother tongues at a distance through a partner organisation Kara connect ehf Students in Stóru-Vogaskóla on all school levels learn their mother tongues, Russian, Tagalog and Thai. The school received a grant to provide mother–tongue instruction to their students, and both parents and children are very happy with this …
Dagana 18.–19. nóvember stóð Móðurmál fyrir ráðstefnu fyrir móðurmálskennara og áhugasama kennara og uppalendur. Aðalfyrirlesari var Prof. Olenka Bilash frá Háskóla í Alberta, Kanada. Ráðstefna átti sér stað í Menningarmiðstöð Gerðubergi í Reykjavík og var styrkt úr Þróunarsjóði innflytjendamála.Á dagskrá var meðal annars árangursrík reynsla tveggja þýska og japanska móðurmálshóps, frásögn litháíska og spænska hóp …
Continue reading “Ráðstefna “Beautiful Languages: Successful and Sustainable””
Móðurmál has a common project for the school year 2016/17. It involves work with environmental terms and environmental issues. The goal is to increase children’s awareness of their environment, to put it into context with their connections with their parents’ countries of origin and to use their mother tongue knowledge at the same time. Work …
Continue reading “Móðurmál researches natural and language resources”
Check out our facebook event for more information 🗣
Most Móðurmál groups started teaching on Saturday 10 September. For the first time, three groups are using Hólabrekkuskóli in Breiðholt, thanks to the cooperation of Móðurmál with the Reykjavík City School Department (Skóla-og frístundasvið Reykjavíkurborgar). Móðurmál groups will cooperate on the environmental project “Móðurmál rannsakar náttúru– og tungumálaauðlindir” in which children will work with environmental …
Awesome teachers, great laughs, a variety of foods and a beautiful walk in nature. Takk fyrir okkur! ❤️
Welcome to Móðurmál and Deutsch-Isländisches Netzwerk The German group is part of Deutsch-Isländisches Netzwerk and lessons are held in Hafnarfjörður. Deutsch-Isländisches Netzwerk aims to connect Germans and Icelanders who are interested in cultural and mutual exchange. The Netzwerk offers many events and activities, such as German mother tongue classes for children, social events, a hiking group, …
Móðurmál has finished its 22nd year of existence and mother-tongue instruction: CONGRATULATIONS! 🎉 Language schools and groups celebrated children’s achievements with various festivals and ceremonies, in some cases in collaboration with embassies and other honorary guests. Móðurmál was represented on the Great Preschool Day on Friday 27th May and on the Multicultural Day on Saturday …
Continue reading “The school year 2015/2016 finishes with glory”
Bridge of friendship is an annual international summer gathering of European Lithuanian mother-tongue schools where students of these schools, their parents, teachers, representatives of Lithuanian diplomatic and governmental organizations are invited. The idea of the gathering was generated in 2005 by Lithuanian Community in Sweden and Stockholm Lithuanian mother-tongue school Saulė. The gathering is held …
Continue reading “Bridge of Friendship 2016 held in Iceland”