Program-wide Supportive Language Learner Communities : Utilizing Communities of Practice and Sociocultural Perspectives in an ESL Curriculum
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This paper will describe a program-wide English as a Second Language (ESL) curriculum in which extensive collaboration among the students has noticeable benefits toward a constructive approach to language learning. Through a coordinated program design, English language learners engage in various tasks which focus on working collaboratively to support each others' language learning development. Reasons for incorporating tasks which promote constructive collaboration by students, including peer-feedback, are drawn from the theoretical concepts of Communities of Practice and Sociocultural theory. The successfully formed supportive communities of language learners in the English Language Program (ELP) in the School of Policy Studies at Kwansei Gakuin University will be described in terms of these concepts. While an explicit policy toward emphasizing collaborative language learning has not been established in the ELP, it is clear that some of the success of the program comes from such endeavors and it should be given further consideration.
- 2005-05-20