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This episode addresses the benefits and challenges of utilizing and incorporating students as partners (SaP) or student partnerships in the EAP classroom. Student partnership brings student engagement to a new level as students become collaborators in their own learning development, both with the instructor and their classmates.
However, as Laura discusses, it is easy to take a wonderfully formed partnership in one semester and turn it into drudgery and prescription in the following semester...simply because the partnership and collaboration often get passed over. A collaboration one semester becomes a prescribed learning activity or assessment the next semester.
Check out these sources for better understanding of student partnership or Students as Partners (SaP).
https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/TLI/article/view/57438
Contact Laura directly at [email protected]
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