Teaching with KITE: Practical Activities for Promoting Linguistic and Cultural Inclusion is a guide designed to explore the multilingual resources available on the KITE platform (https://kite.usal.es/) and apply them in a variety of educational settings. It brings together a collection of pedagogical activities aimed at helping migrants and refugees connect language learning with real-life communication in the host country, fostering inclusive interaction, literacy development, and social integration.
Through activities such as matching exercises, role-plays, pronunciation practice, visual associations, and short creative tasks, learners develop both linguistic and intercultural competences. They discover how words and gestures combine to create meaning, how politeness varies across situations and cultures, and how cultural expectations shape everyday communication and the way people perceive one another.
The KITE platform on which this guide is based provides content in French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish, initially with translations into English and Ukrainian, and now also into Arabic. This multilingual framework creates numerous opportunities for language classrooms, whether in formal or informal contexts, inspiring teaching strategies that promote interlinguistic awareness, collaborative learning, and linguistic mediation. Accordingly, many of the activities in the guide are designed to encourage learners to identify similarities and differences between languages and cultures, to work together regardless of their linguistic backgrounds, and to support one another through translation and explanation.
In this way, the guide becomes a useful and flexible resource for all those involved in second-language teaching and the promotion of integration, helping them create inclusive, cooperative, and enriching language-learning experiences for their learners.