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Strategies For Teaching Information Literacy To English Language Learners, Clara Y. Tran, Selenay Aytac
Strategies For Teaching Information Literacy To English Language Learners, Clara Y. Tran, Selenay Aytac
Collaborative Librarianship
Academic librarians are encountering a growing number of English Language Learners (ELLs) every day, as our classrooms have become more linguistically diverse every year. In this dramatically changing environment, academic librarians are expected to meet the needs of increasingly diverse students speaking multiple languages. The purpose of this paper is to present widely used teaching strategies to support ELLs based on an exhaustive literature review. Study also suggests collaboration among ESL or classroom instructors and librarians to enhance semester-long learning experience.
Librarians And Esl Instructors As Campus Partners In Collaboration And Alliance Building, Karen Bordonaro
Librarians And Esl Instructors As Campus Partners In Collaboration And Alliance Building, Karen Bordonaro
Collaborative Librarianship
Librarians and English as a Second Language (ESL) instructors can be campus partners to improve student learning. This article describes one way for librarians to begin working collaboratively with their ESL instructor counterparts on a university campus. It offers the creation and use of an assessment tool designed to capture ESL students’ library learning as an initial point of collaboration. Following the discussion of the creation and use of this tool, this article then advocates for librarians and ESL instructors to build mutually beneficial alliances between them. These alliances can be based on commonalities and can offer benefits for professionals …