Culminating Project Title
Date of Award
Culminating Project Type
English: Teaching English as a Second Language: M.A.
College of Liberal Arts
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Keywords and Subject Headings
adult education, marxist education, liberatory education, culture circles, literacy, discourse
Tutors have a unique opportunity to help English-as-a Second Language (ESL) students develp their communicative competence. Mary Ann Christison and Karl Krahnke found that ESL students rated social contact as the largest contributor to language development outside the classroom, but also the area most lacking.* Tutoring may be one way to provide social contact, while at the same time providing help with language, cultural, and academic difficulties ESL students may be facing. Potential ESL tutors may be uncertain, however, about the role they are supposed to play in the tutoring situation.
*Christison, Mary Ann, and Karl J. Krahnke. "Student Perceptions of Academic Language Study." TESOL Quarterly 20.1 (1986):61-79.
Eder, Nancy L., "Analysis of the Discourse Between a Tutor and a Second Language Learner: A Joint Decoding Task" (1988). Culminating Projects in English. 80.