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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 Apr 2018

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 …