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Award Winner
Recipient of the 2018 Community Engagement Celebration Day Social Justice Award
Presentation Type
Open Access Other
Keywords
English language--Study and teaching--Iowa--Black Hawk County--Foreign speakers;
Project Summary
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 DuBord, Jennifer Cooley and Caroline Ledeboer, have facilitated this collaboration with ESOL instructors and Multicultural Services Coordinators, Alejandra Huesca and Umaru Balde. As institutional partners, Department of Languages & Literatures and the YWCA have developed a positive and sustainable working relationship. Over one hundred UNI students have worked at the YWCA through coursework in their majors with approximately fifty community English students in this informal setting. These adult language learners come from a wide range of educational and language backgrounds, ranging from francophone and Portuguese-speaking Africa, Spanish-speaking Latin America, Serbo-Croatian Bosnia, and several language groups from Myanmar (Burma). Typical class sessions in the ESOL classes include informal English lessons on practical topics, such as food, shopping, the public library, and medical appointments, but the central components of this project are the communication skills and intercultural competency that all participants develop.
Start Date
19-4-2018 9:00 AM
End Date
19-4-2018 10:30 AM
Event Host
UNI Office of Undergraduate Studies
Department
Department of Languages and Literatures
Award Category
Social Justice Award (Theme-Based)
Copyright
©2018 Elise M. DuBord, Caroline Ledeboer, Jennifer Cooley, Alejandra Huesca, M. Intizom, and Libby Gleason
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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Recommended Citation
DuBord, Elise M.; Ledeboer, Caroline; Cooley, Jennifer; Huesca, Alejandra; Intizom, M.; and Gleason, Libby, "Language Partners at the YWCA: UNI Spanish, English and TESOL students collaborating with English students in community ESOL classes" (2018). Community Engagement Celebration Day. 30.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/communityday/2018/all/30
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Adult and Continuing Education Commons, Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons
Language Partners at the YWCA: UNI Spanish, English and TESOL students collaborating with English students in community ESOL classes
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 DuBord, Jennifer Cooley and Caroline Ledeboer, have facilitated this collaboration with ESOL instructors and Multicultural Services Coordinators, Alejandra Huesca and Umaru Balde. As institutional partners, Department of Languages & Literatures and the YWCA have developed a positive and sustainable working relationship. Over one hundred UNI students have worked at the YWCA through coursework in their majors with approximately fifty community English students in this informal setting. These adult language learners come from a wide range of educational and language backgrounds, ranging from francophone and Portuguese-speaking Africa, Spanish-speaking Latin America, Serbo-Croatian Bosnia, and several language groups from Myanmar (Burma). Typical class sessions in the ESOL classes include informal English lessons on practical topics, such as food, shopping, the public library, and medical appointments, but the central components of this project are the communication skills and intercultural competency that all participants develop.
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