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Situating Local Literacies at the Core of ELT Curriculum in Higher Education
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- المؤلفون: Nieto-Gómez, Yuly Andrea (ORCID Nieto-Gómez, Yuly Andrea (ORCID 0000-0002-3758-9213); Clavijo-Olarte, Amparo (ORCID Clavijo-Olarte, Amparo (ORCID 0000-0002-3752-7020)
- اللغة:
English
- المصدر:
GIST Education and Learning Research Journal. Jul-Dec 2021 (21):27-46.
- الموضوع:
2021
- نوع التسجيلة:
Journal Articles
Reports - Research
- معلومة اضافية
- Peer Reviewed:
Y
- المصدر:
20
- Education Level:
Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
- الموضوع:
- الموضوع:
- ISSN:
1692-5777
- نبذة مختصرة :
This qualitative interpretive study carried out with four EFL teachers in an English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course at a private university in Bogotá, Colombia addresses the disconnect that exists between curricular content and the life of students in education. From our understanding of literacy as a sociocultural practice, we proposed a pedagogical approach that immersed teachers and students in community explorations to study local issues informed by different disciplines. Therefore, this study describes the ways teachers designed and implemented curriculum using community assets (Kretzmann & McKnight, 2003) to develop student agency. The issues addressed by students in their inquiries included improving civic practices in the cycling route; fostering river preservation; environmental issues with garbage in Bogotá; and possibilities to access higher education for young populations in Colombia. Using a grounded theory approach, we collected and analyzed data from class discussions, curricular units, semi-structured interviews and class observation. Findings reveal that community explorations fostered students' agency towards studying social issues and promoted the construction of context-embedded opportunities for learning using students' realities and topics of local relevance (Canagarajah, 2005). The target language was used to reflect, pose problems, produce texts and participate in social reflections within an academic environment.
- نبذة مختصرة :
As Provided
- الموضوع:
2021
- الرقم المعرف:
EJ1285918
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