In the proactive-interactive, language is also used to empower bilingual students. This approach pays attentions and puts emphasis on the original language of bilingual students. The proactive-interactive approach enables bilingual students to shed their inhibitions about speaking their home language. When these bilingual students are encouraged to use their home language, they feel liberated and empowered, as they loose their inhibitions and are prompted to teach their peers their home language. Schools should therefore create cultures that encourage the use of home languages.
Language is an enormously helpful and powerful tool in culture learning.
As Walsh states, the primary reason that learning the language of a culture is so helpful to learning the culture itself is that language and culture are not separable in reality. The original state of ethnic relations in our society is mistrust. Problems of racial insensitivity in our society will not magically solve themselves. These problems must be aggressively attacked. This is the fundamental philosophy of the proactive-interactive approach.