Noor Alqaisi has created the project "Ideas Across Languages: Exploring English and Translanguaging with Jordan" in Class2Class.org

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Ideas Across Languages: Exploring English and Translanguaging with Jordan

What is this project about?

Across the six online sessions with Jordanian peers, students alternate between English-only and translanguaging sessions while sharing ideas on food, school life, and traditions. After the whole six-session program, they record how each policy helpe...

Age of Students: 13-15 years
Project Duration: 6 weeks
Starting Month: November 2026

This project contributes to the following global goals

This project promotes and protects these children's rights

Learning Outcomes

Students will be able to describe how English-only and translanguaging policies shaped their participation and confidence during exchanges with peers from Jordan.

Remember / Understand

Students will be able to apply collaborative strategies such as gestures, visuals, and peer translation to communicate complex ideas with Jordanian peers across both language policies.

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Skills to develop

Intercultural Communication

Collaboration & Teamwork

Project Activities

Warm-up

Students introduce themselves and get to know their peers from Jordan through a fun, interactive icebreaker activity. They share their names, languages they speak, and one interesting fact about themselves. The activity encourages students to feel comfortable, build connections, and start communicating in English.

Duration: 45 minutes

Session Series: English-Only and Translanguaging Exchanges

Across six online sessions, students alternate between English-only and translanguaging sessions while discussing food, school life, and traditions in small mixed groups. They use gestures, visuals, and peer translation to explain complex ideas and note what helps or limits them.

Duration: 210 minutes

Policy Reflection Interviews and Peer Strategy Forum

Students are interviewed on how each language policy affected their participation and confidence.

Duration: 15 minutes

Delivery: Interview