Those Foreigners
"THE Broadcasts to Schools over the past few years have presented an array of almost impeccable programmes whose quality one comes to take almost
for granted. They are to be admired not only as good teaching, but in their methods of presentation, for they exploit to the full. the possibilities of radio, with hearing being used not merely as a substitute for sight. With this background, then, I was surprised to find Seven Thousand Miles from New Zealand fall into an error common to second-rate dramas-the use of pidgin English to denote the foreigner. In this series, two New Zealand children, John and Betty, visit various countries situated 7000 miles from here. Good use has been made of local colour, and each place has been given a distinctive atmosphere. But the use of the accented speech, halting and not always accurate, has given the impression of backwardness, or at the best "quaintness" on the part of the countries visited, and may well reduce their dignity and value in the minds of schoolchildren.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 771, 30 April 1954, Page 11
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174Those Foreigners New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 771, 30 April 1954, Page 11
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