Teach English in Simeng Zhen - Huaihua Shi

In a bilingual classroom or bilingual students usually we find two different facts. the first fact is  that .this students they speak thier own language. or it's better to say thier native language . and in the same time they speak a foreigner language as a second  language . and most of time both of the languages are official in their country .  the second fact is this students they speak two languages. and both of them are their native language. it doesn't matter if one of them it is original of that country or not . for example there is some countries in Africa. and let's take  Congo democracy as an example. in this country  they speak French as a second  native language.  they communicate with it in their normal life and in the mean while they speak swahili the original language. so next we will talk about the positive and the negative sides of teaching a bilingual class.   _ Positive sides of a bilingual classroom: .The students brains are flexible with the languages and ready to accept easily a new one .They are used to talk in a different languages so they will be not surprised when they hear a new language. that's mean the adaptation time with the new language it will be fast . .This kind of students are also multicultural. so their culture it's good and diverse. and that helps  them to understand both teacher and the language concept. .Their techniques of using a language . and the switch from a language to another is perfectly hight . .The talking skills are good because each language has her own sounds and phonetic . so their muscles are strong and trained to pronounce different sounds.   .Their listening skills are also hight because they hear different languages all the time . .Their vocabulary of their language is already rich that will help them to know a lot of words for the new language. which is english .If the both languages they speak are hard so English will be the favorite language for them to learn and to speak. .Generally bilingual students are active and talkative if the teacher is clever he would exploit this thing in a good way.   _ Negative sides of a bilingual classroom: .This kind of students some of them you find them totally saturated.  and the motivation of learning new language it will be less .If the structures of both languages are the same and different from the English one . here the grammar will be hard for them. and the teacher must work hard .To know already two languages that would let you a  little confused or forgetting about the pronunciation of some words or letters. maybe even sounds .    _ Answers  about how to teach bilingual class and how the teacher should act :   .The teacher must search to know the life mode of the students in particular .and the country where they live in general . so he can choose the materials carefully. .Teacher must ask the students a questions about their culture and their traditions. of course the answers must be in English even there will be some mistakes . it doesn't matter by time the teacher can fix this problem . .The teacher must search and knows about the origins and the specificities of the languages that the student's speaks .  and he must ask them which language they use  much .The teacher must give the students a global idea about English language .and he must tell  some of the history and the structure of this language .  and if the structure is different or the same with one of their language that they do speak he must say that . and explain good  the English language  structure .The teacher must put some of the English culture in the class room . the bilingual students they like the diversity of cultures. and different things .or new things .The teacher must be patient and positive and help the students to have the fluency . .Teacher must make the students be excited and  curious.  and he must bring new things that they don't have in the two languages that they speak .The teacher of the bilingual class must be creative and he need to make his imagination big in teaching English