samedi 5 juillet 2014

Tips To Promote Classroom Bilingual Strategic Communications

By Rosella Campbell


A classroom is a place where you are supposed to learn from a teacher. While there are those classrooms that are meant for native students, there are times when a classroom is filled with students coming from all over the world. Such situations are quite common when the school is renowned all around.

If you are the teacher in this kind of classroom setting, you are the one in charge of ensuring that no one is left behind. Everyone in your class should be able to get along well with each other. To make that possible, you have to let them communicate. You can do this, despite having people from all over, if you have bilingual strategic communications.

The said strategy is really applicable in a world-renowned university where the class is filled with a diverse populace. You might have students who are from the East or some from the West. You have to make sure that the language does not become a hindrance to their learning and to them getting along with the others.

You have to make sure that there are no problems that arises because of the language. Even though there is no single spoken language in the said classroom, you better make sure that the students do not feel left out whenever they do not understand what you say or what the classmates say. You should never let anyone feel isolated.

With the right strategy for communication, you should be able to prevent such situations from happening in your own classroom. You will not be able to leave anyone in the dust when it comes to learning. Moreover, you should be able to help other students gain their first friend in the classroom with the right strategy.

Out of the various strategies that you are allowed to use, you should consider having yourself and your students speak in English. This is really helpful because this is the language that most people are familiar with, second to their native tongue. Students should be able to communicate with your or their classmates when they speak in English.

There are surely no problems with speaking the said language. Most of the students, especially those in the higher levels, should be able to speak or understand the said language. To those who know the language but are not used to it, you can convince them to see this as an exposure and preparation for their future.

You may also take advantage of a buddy system for this kind of problem. This means that you will be pairing up a foreign speaker with a native speaker who speaks the English language fluently. The two students can definitely learn from each other. They can teach each other the language the other one speaks.

You can still take advantage of a few strategies when it comes to the communication in a classroom. Know what these other strategies are and use the ones that really work out with the kind of environment you have. It should be easy to promote the strategy you have in mind if it is suitable for your kind of environment.




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