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Best Practices in Service-Learning:  Engaging International Students in Service Experiences

Best Practices in Service-Learning:  Engaging International Students in Service Experiences. ESL/EAP Program Saint Louis University. Contemporary Issues: Social Justice and Intercultural Communication. EAP 110 content class 4 hours per week

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Best Practices in Service-Learning:  Engaging International Students in Service Experiences

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  1. Best Practices in Service-Learning:  Engaging International Students in Service Experiences ESL/EAP Program Saint Louis University

  2. Contemporary Issues: Social Justice and Intercultural Communication • EAP 110 content class • 4 hours per week • Topics of global issues, social justice, and cultural studies • 4 mandatory service projects for the whole class, accompanied by instructors • Reflective blogs, required readings, presentations, response papers, and final reflection paper

  3. Service-Learning Classes in the ESL/EAP Program Since 2008… • Approximately 400 students… • More than 30 teachers… • Over 1,000 hours of service.

  4. Service-Learning • Students engage in community service activities with intentional academic and learning goals and opportunities for reflection that connect to their academic disciplines (Cress, 7). • Not common in ESL programs because requires content-based instruction.

  5. Goals • Promote critical thinking skills, connection between class content, ESL skill building, and life experience; • Improve motivation to learn and adapt to the culture; • Create opportunities to improve reading and writing fluency; and • Teach the ideals of social justice within cultural contexts.

  6. How did we do? • Connections between class topics and life outside the university, • Students more positive in every area of the class, especially seeing peers as resources, but • Still need explicit instruction for continued language acquisition, especially reading and writing, and • Formation of concept(s) of social justice still in nascent stages.

  7. Keys to Success Relationships inside… And outside… Community Network Practical Sustainable • ESL Program • Team of instructors • Sustained content • Institutional Support • Finances • Mission • Preparation for students • Rationale • Scaffolding

  8. Bibliography • Crandall, J., & Kaufman, D. (Eds.). (2002). Content-Based Instruction in Higher Education Settings. Alexandria, VA: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages. • Cress, C., Collier, P., & Reitenauer, V. (2005). Learning Through Service: A Student Guidebook for Service-Learning Across the Disciplines. Sterling: Stylus Publishing. • Pally, M. (Ed.). (2000). Sustained Content Teaching in Academic ESL/EFL: A Practical Approach. New York: Houghton Mifflin. • VOICES. (2007). Retrieved April 22, 2008, from http://voices.slu.edu

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