Emotional impact, identity and relationships: Guidelines for using students as language brokers in schools
- Autores: Evangelia Prokopiou, Sarah Crafter, Karolina Dobrzynska
- Localización: Inclusion, Diversity and Communication Across Cultures: A Teacher's Book with Classroom Activities for Secondary Education / coord. por Mireia Vargas Urpí, Marta Arumí Ribas, 2022, ISBN 978-84-09-39836-2, págs. 94-111
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
In the first half of this chapter, we will look in greater depth at the impact language brokering has on emotions, identity and personal relationships. In the second half, we will provide some guidelines that teachers can use to improve the communication process in language brokering sessions in schools. The chapter's activities will enable you and your students to: · Reflect on the emotional impact of language brokering and how the practice affects the sense of identity and belonging of those who carry it out. The following questions will be raised: · How does language brokering make young people feel about themselves? · What impact does the practice have on their identity and our understanding of childhood? · Understand the importance of relationships to language brokering activities. The focus will be on family relationships and relationships at school. · Examine guidelines on how teachers and students who act as interpreters can improve language brokering interactions and the communication they involve.
