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DOCUMENT RESUME Many Voices DOCUMENT RESUME ED 421 858 FL 025 356 TITLE Many Voices: A Journal of New Settlers and Multicultural Education Issues. Volumes 6-12. INSTITUTION New Zealand Dept. of Education, Wellington. ISSN ISSN-1171-1353 PUB DATE 1996-00-00 NOTE 200p. PUB TYPE Collected Works Serials (022) JOURNAL CIT Many Voices; n6-12 1993-1998 EDRS PRICE MF01/PC08 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Audiotape Recordings; Community Schools; Creative Writing; *Cultural Pluralism; Curriculum Design; Educational Needs; Elementary Secondary Education; *English (Second Language); Ethnic Groups; Foreign Countries; *Foreign Students; Geography; Heritage Education; Higher Education; *Immigrants; Independent Study; Introductory Courses; *Land Settlement; Language Maintenance; Language Research; *Limited English Speaking; Listening Comprehension; Multicultural Education; Native Language Instruction; Pacific Islanders; Program Descriptions; Refugees; Samoan; Second Language Instruction; Special Education; Speech Acts; Teacher Education; Testing; Uncommonly Taught Languages; Vocational Education; Vocational English (Second Language) IDENTIFIERS China; New Zealand; Pacific Islands; Vietnam; World English ABSTRACT The seven issues of this New Zealand journal contain brief articles on a variety of immigrant and multicultural education issues. Topics include: the role of English language instruction in creating opportunities; Pacific Islander university students; lecture listening and note-taking techniques; the language of geography examinations; audiotape libraries; supporting native language use in child care centers; implications of world English for English language teaching; teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) in Vietnam; a home tutor conference; bilingual tutors and refugees; ESL funding; special education; meeting ESL students' needs within the school system; teaching English to absolute beginners; problems of recent Chinese immigrants; speech act analysis and its role in first language/cultural maintenance; community language schools; team teaching in the polytechnic institutes; bridging cultural gaps; inservice teacher education; language learning at home; a training program for Pacific Islanders; language content and perspectives of national curriculum programs; Samoan resources for the New Zealand curriculum; developments in Pacific Islands education; answers to questions primary school teachers ask about assisting students from non-English-speaking backgrounds (NESB); a German language weekend school for native German-speakers; successful bilingual teaching techniques; the linguistic and educational background of Lao immigrant students; designing Samoan language programs for New Zealand students; finding instructional materials for NESB students; guidelines for training peer and adult volunteer tutors of NESE students; the cultural and educational background of NESB Asian students; Cook Islands Maori instructional materials; student attitudes about English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes; language maintenance in the Korean community; and newly migrated Samoan students. Works of creative writing are included in some issues. (MSE) Many Voices Volume 6-12 U.S. DEPARTMENT OFEDUCATION PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND Office of Educational Research andImprovement DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS EDUCATIONAL RESOURCESINFORMATION BEEN GRANTED BY CENTER (ERIC) O This document has beenreproduced as received from the person ororganization originating it. O Minor changes have beenmade to Beth Becker improve reproduction quality. TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES Points of view or opinions statedin this INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) document do not necessarilyrepresent 1 official OERI position or policy. 2 MANY VOICES A Journal of New Settlers and Multicultural Education Issues Many Voices 6 A Journal of New Settlers and Multicultural Education Issues October 1993 Contents 3 Introduction 4 English Opens Doors by Kitty Chang 6 Coconuts Begin With a "C":Pacific Islanders at University by Pacific Island Students Academic Achievement Collective, University of Auckland 11 Listening to Lectures by Alison Bell 14 The Language of Geography Examinations by Lesley Powell and Gillian Greene 17 Audio Tape Libraries by Libby O'Connor 18 Approaches to Supporting Mother Tongue Languages in Early Childhood Centres by Nola Harvey 23 English as an International Language and its Implications for ESOL Teachers by Sugee Kannangara 26 Teaching English as a Foreign Language in Vietnam by Ton Nu- My- Nhât 27 Network 93: The Annual Home Tutor Conference by Judi Altinkaya, Mary Cresswell, and Leith Wallace 28 Refugee Needs and the Role of Bilingual Tutors by Bounphet Phanthaboualoy, Man Hau Liev, and Bui Van Manh 29 Refugee in the Land of All Blacks and Baxter by Vladimir Nicholson 30 Rain by Geoffrey Du 30 A Matter of Time by Maartje Quivooy 31 Reviews Learning Media, Wellington Immigrant Woman 4 by Maartje Quivooy It's you, my little country from the window of the plane you're there, it seems unchanged And yes! It leaps my heart with joy, my eyes they want to weep but I am in control They speak to me in the familiar tongue it is the same and yet it's not.I am the one that's changed And on return it leaps again my silly heart, it loves two lands with glorious, abiding passion. Published for the Ministry of Education by Learning Media Ltd, Box 3293, Wellington, New Zealand. All rights reserved. Enquiries should be made to the publisher. Views expressed in this journal are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent those of the editor, publisher, or the Ministry of Education. ISSN 1171 1353 Item number 93/402 Introduction Tena koutou katoa. There has been discussion recently about the standard of English and levels of achievement of university students from a non-English-speaking background. This issue contains a very valuable article which examines this topic. Pacific Islands students at Auckland University undertook their own research and produced a thoughtful and readable report which discusses factors affecting student's progress and offers some suggestions for help. This report, entitled "Coconuts Begin With a "C", will be useful for teachers at all tertiary institutions and also for secondary teachers. Primary teachers might also find some aspects discussed in this article useful in explaining their students' behaviour. The two articles which follow, "Listening to Lectures" and "The Language of Geography Examinations", support this theme, by looking at the language used in lectures and in examinations. Often, students may have a reasonable knowledge of the subject being taught, but have difficulty with the way it is presented or examined. If teachers are aware of the language they use when teaching, theycan either change it where necessary or ensure that students are familiar with important or significant terms. Other articles in this issue demonstrate the wide variety of concerns in multicultural and ESOL teaching, from supporting new settlers in New Zealand, to teaching English as an international language both in New Zealand and overseas. At a time when New Zealand is considering its role in Asia and the Pacific such articles are very timely. And once again, Many Voices provides the opportunity fornew settlers to be heard, with the final three articles conveying something of the emotion involved with changing ones country and culture, whether voluntarily or involuntarily, under economic or political duress. Leith Wallace English Opens Doors impressed with the facilities (especially the cafeteria) and Charles was most informative and by Kitty Chang encouraging, answering their questions with tact and charm. Have you ever done things which, in retrospect, It just so happened that we were planningan you wonder how you ever had the courage, the ethnic fair as part of our open day, andwe were nerve, or the good sense to do in the first place? cheeky enough to ask if we could have it How would you feel if you had lived ina foreign advertised over ACCESS Radio. Charles country for a few months only but heard yourself suggested that we make a trailer. Right there speaking in your new language in a radio and then, in the cafeteria, we mapped outa little broadcast? advertising piece for the fair.It involved various members of the group introducing themselves in Getting students from Hutt Valley Polytechnicto their native languages, giving the information, make a programme for ACCESS Radiowas an and injecting a little humour into itas well. There exercise in learning both for the students and the was very little time to practise, but there was staff involved. In 1992, Marcia Isles and Iwere very little time to feel nervous. The students were teaching the Intermediate English and English having fun. Seeing how the students respondedto for Further Training courses. We believe that this, Charles suggested we think about producing English is learned not just in the classroom but a programme about ESOL (English for Speakers of also in the environment outside, andwe tried to Other Languages), as there was nota regular one. provide real-life experiences in whichour Gillian Woodward, who is themanager of students could use language to express and ACCESS radio, explained to us the communicate their thoughts and feelings. administrative details of making programmes. The students in our area are mostly Pacific ACCESS radio is funded presently by New Islands, Middle Eastern, and Asian migrants. Zealand on Air. Seventy percent of the costsare Although the periods they have been in New covered
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