DEVELOPING TWO-WAY
BIDIALECTAL EDUCATION
HANDOUT - FINDING STRATEGIES TO FIT PROBLEMS
Find and bookmark each of these sections in Solid English and Two-way English. Read them and describe a situation where each one might be used to help a teacher.
- Solid English, page 42, "Establish Rapport" contains a strategy where the teacher develops a good relationship with the students. Describe a situation where you think this strategy might be useful to the teacher. Some uses for this strategy
- Solid English, page 49, "Questioning" describes differences in asking questions. Describe a situation where you think this information might be useful to the teacher. Some uses for this strategy
- Solid English, page 55, contains a language game involving switching from one dialect to another. Describe a situation where you think this strategy might be useful to the teacher. Some uses for this strategy
- Two-way English, page 60, "Conversation breakdown" contains information about communication breakdown. Describe a situation where you think this information would be useful to a teacher. Some uses for this strategy
- Two-way English, page 62, "Misunderstanding deadlines" describes a strategy to help Aboriginal students with non-Aboriginal concepts of time. Describe a situation where you think this information would be useful to a teacher. Some uses for this strategy
- Two-way English, page 44 & 45, "Aboriginal Language words", and "English words" describes the use of English words with different meanings and the use of Aboriginal words in Aboriginal English (these ones happen to be Nyungar). Describe a situation where this information would be useful to the teacher. Some uses for this strategy
