Treasure trove of words. A proposal for multilingual education to train future educators

Abstract

The paper presents a pedagogical reflection on the generative and transformative power of words, valorizing language education as education for originality, according to Giuseppe Lombardo Radice and Tullio De Mauro’s perspective. The main research and most significant documents produced by the European Union over the last 15 years to promote plurilingualism are presented in the second part. The third section of the paper describes a training workshop experience with students from the Educational Sciences course at the University of Catania that was inspired by the European Vocabulary and the personal adoptive language.

Keywords

• word
• language education
• childhood
• european vocabulary
• interculturalism