3. Aims
The
aims pursued within this approach concern:
- the acquisition of awareness of the diversity of languages,
-
the promotion of a linguistic
culture, i.e. knowledge that contributes to understanding our contemporary
multilingual and multicultural reality and to feeling part of a multilingual
community;
- the development of positive representations, attitudes, interest
for all languages as treasures, as tools for understanding and shaping the world, with all languages
being equal;
- encouraging a harmonic personal relationship with all the
languages of one’s life;
- the acquisition of awareness and agency on one's own linguistic
repertories, practices, ways of learning languages;
-
the development of
meta-linguistic and meta-communicative skills by observing differences and
similarities in the phonetic and structural characteristics of languages, by exploring
different body movements, proximity
and gestures linked to communication, etc.