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Literacy Gatekeepers In The Ontario Education System. Why Esl Students Fail? A Bordieuan Perspective, Anna Rzepecka-Karwowska
Literacy Gatekeepers In The Ontario Education System. Why Esl Students Fail? A Bordieuan Perspective, Anna Rzepecka-Karwowska
Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse International Students in Open or Online Learning Environments: A Research Symposium
Ontario's education system aims to improve children's literacy levels who hail from diverse backgrounds. Schools must tailor their program layout to their students’ unique needs. Immersion is one of them. As with submersion, instruction occurs in the second language (L2), but there are significant differences. ESL students experience linguistic barriers. According to Migration Matters (June 2017), by 2022, 78% of job openings will require some post-secondary training or university degree. Many immigrants do not have the skills necessary to succeed, and these percentages have not improved. There is a widening incongruence between the complexity of the needs of ESL learners …
A Child Of Books: Building Little Free Libraries With Student Partners In Teaching And Learning, Hayley Hoffman
A Child Of Books: Building Little Free Libraries With Student Partners In Teaching And Learning, Hayley Hoffman
Pedagogicon Conference Proceedings
The lack of equitable access to books for children has a lifelong impact on their literacy development. Pop-up libraries, such as the popular Little Free Libraries, are intended to address this divide by providing access to books year-round. Drawing from the author’s previous experience with the project, this essay explores the ways in which building a Little Free Library as a class can allow students at various grade levels to act as partners in teaching and learning.