Assignment
Reading: Participant Structures and Communicative Competence: Warm Springs Children in Community and Classroom by Susan U. Philips.
Reading Questions for Phillips, Participant Structures and Communicative Competence Vocabulary: participant structures, communicative competence
1. What does Phillips say are the primary participant structures that make up typical classroom routines in non-Indian U.S. classrooms?
2. Give one example of the interactional norms and preferences that are typical within the Warm Springs community. How these normsaffect Indian children's adaptation to non-Indian classroom norms, such as the participant structures you described above?
3. Some teachers in the Warm Springs school develop new classroom routines that are culturally sensitive to the communicative norms of their students and accommodate to their typical patterns of interaction. What does Phillips say is the downside of doing this?
4. What do you think should be the goal for teachers of Warm Springs children - to teach them to understand the difference between their community's norms and those of the mainstream and teach them to adapt to both, or to allow them to preserve their own cultural styles of interaction-and why?
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