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Huiwen Shi; Lok Ming Eric Cheung – Journal for Multicultural Education, 2024
Purpose: While most language departments of the university offer service-learning (SL) subjects based on language teaching, such as "Teaching Chinese as a Second Language in Local Schools" and "Serving the Community through Teaching English," this paper aims to argue that teaching students to teach language(s) is yet to be the…
Descriptors: Story Telling, Service Learning, Foreign Countries, Teaching Methods
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Feuerherm, Emily; Hiramatsu, Kazuko; Miller, Nathaniel S.; Williams, Kenneth – Journal of Community Engagement and Higher Education, 2022
This study investigated the impact of service learning using quantitative and qualitative methods. Forty-one First Year Experience and capstone students completed the Civic Attitudes and Skills Questionnaire (CASQ) at the term's beginning and end. Although the CASQ total and subscores did not differ, capstone students scored higher on CASQ…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Education, Service Learning, Diaries, Teacher Attitudes
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Suwaed, Hameda – IAFOR Journal of Language Learning, 2018
Although service-learning, as a language teaching strategy, is considered important for developing the college students' academic and soft skills, or personal attributes that people need in order to work with others, including communication skills, empathy, social skills, listening skills and attitudes, it is still a neglected area in the Libyan…
Descriptors: Service Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Nguyen Hoang Tuan; Dat Bao – Education in the Asia-Pacific Region: Issues, Concerns and Prospects, 2021
This chapter discusses a case study based on six-week teacher placement in a bachelor program. The placement, which provides training to students who will become primary school teachers in the future, is treated at the same time as a research project in which data are collected from participants' reflective journals. The purpose of the study is to…
Descriptors: Service Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Hernández Varona, Wilson; Gutiérrez Álvarez, Daniel Felipe – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2020
This paper presents a narrative inquiry study on agency development in student-teachers of an English language teacher program at a public university in the south of Colombia. Our goal was to understand how student-teachers develop agency when narratively inquiring their community by planning and conducting community-based pedagogy projects on…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Student Teachers
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Seilstad, Brian – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2014
This article describes the theoretical and pedagogical background and results from the first semester of a service-learning program for English learners at a public Moroccan university and the local high school. This study fills a gap in the literature related to service-learning practice and outcomes in Morocco and the Arab world in general. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Andrew, Martin – TESL-EJ, 2012
This study investigates the value of community experience for mediating linguistic practice and cultural learning. Learners of English as an Additional Language (EAL), both immigrants and international students, frequently report difficulties in practicing English outside the classroom (Wright, 2006). Grounded in poststructuralist social identity…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Socialization, Females, Second Language Learning
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Grim, Frederique – Foreign Language Annals, 2010
Many college students feel that learning a second language (L2) is necessary to bring value to their future. However, many also feel that during their years of learning an L2, the only experience they acquire starts when they enter the classroom and stops when they leave it. This view may bring a lack of engagement in learning the L2. Research has…
Descriptors: College Students, Second Language Learning, Service Learning, French
Malkin, Fran – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation examines the effects of service learning experiences on participants' attitudes towards the Spanish language and culture and their language proficiency. It was hypothesized that using the Spanish language outside the confines of the academic environment would affect participants' attitudes and have an impact on their language…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Service Learning
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Bussert-Webb, Kathy – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2011
This case study explores community service learning, disciplinary literacy, and social justice. Participants were seven Mexican American preservice secondary teachers in science, math, and language arts who tutored and gardened with children in a South Texas after-school tutorial agency as part of an ESL literacy methods course. Data gathering…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Service Learning, Literacy, Social Differences