Episode 7: Students as Partners in EAP

Episode 7 July 28, 2022 00:24:14
Episode 7: Students as Partners in EAP
Encounters in the EAP Classroom
Episode 7: Students as Partners in EAP

Jul 28 2022 | 00:24:14

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Hosted By

Laura McNabb

Show Notes

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://www.wiley.com/en-us/Engaging+Students+as+Partners+in+Learning+and+Teaching%3A+A+Guide+for+Faculty-p-9781118434581 

https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/TLI/article/view/57438 

Contact Laura directly at [email protected]

Check out her website at www.windowsoflife.com 

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