08 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.

Since you are the one who will be in charge of the said classroom, you have to do your best to ensure that everyone will be learning quality lessons from you. As a member of the faculty of a world-renowned university, you are responsible for the education of the kids. To make them understand each other, you also have to learn more about bilingual strategic communications.

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.

There are certainly a lot of problems that will arise when there are different languages being spoken in a single classroom. One of those is isolation. You will definitely have one or two student in the class left behind if you do not allow them to communicate well with the others in the class. It is really a problem because that might promote homesickness.

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.

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.

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.

There are still other strategies you can use when it comes to communication. These strategies are mainly used to help other people communicate with another. You should make sure that the said strategies really work out. If not, then you either have to improve or change the strategy you use for the classroom.




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