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Language Partners At The Ywca: Uni Spanish, English And Tesol Students Collaborating With English Students In Community Esol Classes, Elise M. Dubord, Caroline Ledeboer, Jennifer Cooley, Alejandra Huesca, M. Intizom, Libby Gleason
Language Partners At The Ywca: Uni Spanish, English And Tesol Students Collaborating With English Students In Community Esol Classes, Elise M. Dubord, Caroline Ledeboer, Jennifer Cooley, Alejandra Huesca, M. Intizom, Libby Gleason
Community Engagement Celebration Day
In 2016, a collaboration began between UNI faculty and students in service learning courses in the Department of Languages & Literatures and classes in English for speakers of other languages (ESOL) at the YWCA of Black Hawk County. Since that time, students in two Spanish courses (Latinos in the U.S. and Advanced Conversation & Reading) and one English linguistics course (Structure of English) have worked as language partners with adult learners of English in full semester and partial semester community-based learning projects over the course of five consecutive semesters (Spring 2016 to Spring 2018). Members of the L&L faculty, Elise …
Transforming Professional Learning Using Self-Study In An Efl Context, Mahjabeen Hussain
Transforming Professional Learning Using Self-Study In An Efl Context, Mahjabeen Hussain
Annual Graduate Student Symposium
Engaging in reflective practices is important for a practitioner’s professional growth. As a doctoral student I, by profession an English as a foreign language (EFL) instructor, entered into a relationship of critical friendship with a colleague in Bangladesh. We chose to undertake the task of reflecting on written corrective feedback (WCF) on student writings that we strongly felt needed attention in EFL environment, i.e., our own teaching context. The self-study method was used as a systematic inquiry to focus on our WCF practices. Following Samaras and Roberts’ (2011) guidelines for instructors newly engaging in self-study and based on the concept …