Bridging Literacy Practices through Storytelling, Translanguaging, and an Ethnographic Partnership: A Case Study of Dominican Students at Bronx Community College

Autor/in	Parmegiani, Andrea
Titel	Bridging Literacy Practices through Storytelling, Translanguaging, and an Ethnographic Partnership: A Case Study of Dominican Students at Bronx Community College
Quelle	In: Journal of Basic Writing, 33 (2014) 1, S.23-51 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0147-1635
Schlagwörter	Story Telling; Ethnography; Case Studies; Community Colleges; Two Year College Students; Academic Discourse; Teaching Methods; English (Second Language); Immigrants; Literacy; Spanish; Writing (Composition); Foreign Countries; Code Switching (Language); Bilingualism; Hispanic American Students; Academic Achievement; Native Language; Language Usage; Essays; Language Teachers; New York (New York); Dominican Republic + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnografie; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Community college; Community College; Discourse; Diskurs; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Spanisch; Schreibübung; Ausland; Bilingualismus; Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Schulleistung; Sprachgebrauch; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Dominikanische Republik
Abstract	This article reports on my attempt to use storytelling as an entry point into academic discourse in a learning community designed to meet the learning needs of ESL students who recently emigrated from the Dominican Republic. Based on research suggesting a correlation between academic success in a second language and first language literacy skills, this learning community linked an ESL course to a Spanish composition course for native speakers. Storytelling constituted the cornerstone of an ethnographic partnership established in order to create a "place for students' self" within Academic Discourse and to inform the translingual pedagogical alliance formed with the Spanish instructor. I will discuss the impact this approach has had on students' success indicators and ways in which it can be implemented in other teaching contexts. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01