Teaching with Kite: Practical Activities for Promoting Linguistic and Cultural Inclusion

Teaching with KITE: Practical Activities for Promoting Linguistic and Cultural Inclusion is a guide for exploring the multilingual resources available on the KITE platform (https://kite.usal.es/) and for applying them in diverse educational contexts. It brings together a set of pedagogical activities designed to help 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 competence. They discover how words and gestures combine to create meaning, how politeness varies across situations and cultures, and how cultural expectations influence everyday communication and one’s perceptions of others. The KITE platform on which this guide is based provides content in French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish, with translations into English and Ukrainian. This multilingual framework creates many possibilities for the language classroom, be it formal or informal, inspiring teaching strategies that promote interlinguistic awareness, collaborative learning, and linguistic mediation. As such, many of the activities in this guide were designed to encourage learners to notice similarities and differences between languages and cultures, to work together across linguistic backgrounds, and to support one another through translation or explanation. In this way, the guide becomes a rich and flexible tool for all those involved in second language teaching and in the promotion of integration, helping them create inclusive, cooperative, and rich language learning experiences for the learners.