Wednesday 16 July 2014

Tips In Promoting 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.

As the teacher, you are the one who will be in charge of making sure that everyone is not left behind. Everyone should be able to learn from the class as well as get along with the other students. You will have to promote bilingual strategic communications to ensure that everyone understands each other's words.

This is definitely an amazing strategy to promote when you have a classroom open to students all over. When the students are speaking different languages, then this will allow you to not let anyone feel alone. This will eliminate the problem of having one or two students in the class feel isolated because they speak a different language.

If the language becomes the problem, this might then cause isolation. The lone student who is yet to understand the common language being spoken in the classroom will really be left behind. This might even trigger the feeling of not attending class or homesickness for the said lone student. That would pose a problem in and of itself.

You have to make use of the appropriate strategies for the said problem. In communication, you should be able to have a strategy that does not leave anyone out. When you have a proper strategy you can use, then you can help the student gain his or her first friend when he or she is in the said classroom.

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.

No one should be averse to speaking in the English language. After all, most of the students who are studying in higher year levels these days are capable of speaking the language. Even if the students have no exposure to it yet or is not yet used to speaking in the said language, you have to convince them that they have to start now.

There is a buddy system you can take advantage of too. If you just have a foreign speaker and a native speaker fluently speaking in English to pair up, then you can encourage them to learn more about each other's language and culture. It should be helpful in each other's learning too so take advantage of this strategy.

Of course, there are other strategies that you can use when it comes to allowing the class to communicate with each other. You just have to make sure that the strategies really work. It will be worth it for you if the strategies you use really work.




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