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Use Of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy In Supporting International Students: A Canadian Experience With An Online Reading-Writing Program, Elaine Khoo, Xiangying Huo
Use Of Culturally Responsive Pedagogy In Supporting International Students: A Canadian Experience With An Online Reading-Writing Program, Elaine Khoo, Xiangying Huo
Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse International Students in Open or Online Learning Environments: A Research Symposium
International students with low Academic English proficiency face great academic challenges in remote learning. The Reading and Writing Excellence (RWE) program was delivered fully online during the pandemic to meet these students’ unprecedented needs. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were employed to investigate the effects of the Culturally Responsive Pedagogy. Nine groups were investigated in the winter cycle 2021 at the University of Toronto in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada. In the group, where Culturally Responsive Pedagogy (CRP) was implemented, low English proficiency students wrote 11,500 words each in journal entries, the highest volume of writing output and engagement metrics as compared …
The Poetry Café: An On-Line Writing Workshop For Refugee And Newcomer Youth, Christin Taylor, Sana Abuleil
The Poetry Café: An On-Line Writing Workshop For Refugee And Newcomer Youth, Christin Taylor, Sana Abuleil
Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse International Students in Open or Online Learning Environments: A Research Symposium
The objective of this paper is to discuss the use of cross-disciplinary partnerships to design and implement a creative writing workshop for English-language learners (ELLs) in an online setting. The methodology utilized collaborative, cross-disciplinary feedback and revision cycles to identify key areas of consideration in facilitating the workshop. The findings revealed cultural and grammatical considerations, emotional nuance considerations, idiomatic language considerations, and internal translation and time considerations in the creative writing process for ELLs. In addition, a reflection, after the completion of the workshop, revealed that while the curriculum successfully implemented three scholarly fields of knowledge, the advances made by …