ABSTRACT Globalisation has resulted in multicultural and multilingual societies where individuals, who often do not speak the official language, need to communicate with different services offered by public institutions in the host country. School plays a vital role as an education and training institution, and must guarantee that every student receives equal opportunities, and, in accordance with the principles of intercultural education, facilitate the integration of foreign students both into society and the educational context. However, linguistic and cultural barriers may sometimes prevent communication between foreign students, their families and the education centre. The purpose of this paper is to analyse survey responses and interview talk about communication between teachers and immigrant users who do not speak or barely know the host country language, especially the methods employed and the resources available to Spanish education centres to communicate with students and families who lack the necessary host language skills. A case study will be used as example of the situation in which both educators and families very frequently have to turn to child language brokering, using methodology based on qualitative analysis of surveys and interviews carried out in two primary schools in the Madrid area.

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儿童语言中介：西班牙跨文化教育的挑战

摘要 全球化导致了多文化和多语言社会，在这些社会中，通常不会说官方语言的个人需要与东道国公共机构提供的不同服务进行交流。学校作为教育和培训机构发挥着至关重要的作用，必须保证每个学生获得平等的机会，并按照跨文化教育的原则，促进外国学生融入社会和教育环境。然而，语言和文化障碍有时可能会阻碍外国学生、他们的家人和教育中心之间的交流。本文的目的是分析关于教师与不会说或几乎不懂东道国语言的移民用户之间的交流的调查回复和访谈谈话，特别是西班牙教育中心与学生和家庭交流所采用的方法和可用资源。谁缺乏必要的宿主语言技能。案例研究将用作教育者和家庭经常不得不求助于儿童语言中介的情况的例子，使用基于对马德里地区两所小学进行的调查和访谈的定性分析的方法。