Monday, 7 July 2014

Tips To Promote Classroom Bilingual Strategic Communications

By Rosella Campbell


It is only normal for a classroom to be filled with students who come from different parts of the world. This is definitely true with those schools that are renowned worldwide. You can get different people from different parts of the world studying a single course in a single classroom when your school is open for enrollment to students around the world.

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.

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.

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.

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 many strategies that you should be able to take advantage of when you are teaching in a classroom filled with students speaking different languages, speaking English is helpful. Remember that English is being taught in almost all classrooms around the world. It should be easy to speak to foreigners with that language.

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.

Pairing up or using a buddy system will help too. One foreigner can be paired up with a native speaker who is also good at speaking English. You can let them learn from each other. The foreigner can teach his or her language to the partner while the partner, on the other hand, can teach the foreigner the native language.

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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