Community Service Learning as Critical Curriculum
Promoting International Students' Second Language Practices
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21175488 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xia Chao (0000-0001-8866-5178, Duquesne University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 289-318 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Inquiry in Language Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1542-7587 • E-ISSN: 1542-7595 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15427587.2016.1173513 |
| OpenAlex | W2407340138 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 41 |
Grounded in the whole person perspective of language learners and the concepts of investment and L2 socialization, this qualitative study explores how community service learning (CSL) contributes to international students' L2 practices and identity development. This study finds that CSL creates “a pedagogical contact zone” outside the formal language classroom in which students are exposed to authentic L2 practices and discourse acquisition. CSL is a critical curriculum for students' learning, repositioning, cooperating, and empowering. It transforms the multiple spaces of students' worlds and connects the boundaries between university and community and between foreign culture and American culture. CSL promotes students' L2 practices and positions in the community as worthy cultural and social beings. This study advocates that CSL is a legitimate language practice. It offers students an alternative discourse, community contact, and an invitation to reading and understanding the world. Suggestions for curriculum implications are discussed
Curriculum · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Service-learning · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · Computer Science · Global Education and Multiculturalism · Multilingual Education and Policy · Service-Learning and Community Engagement
Foreword by William F. Hanks
Critical English for Academic Purposes
Social Linguistics and Literacies
Identity and Language Learning
Practice in a Second Language
Empowering Education
“Multiliteracies”
The Adult Literacy Process as Cultural Action for Freedom
Elementary English Education
Langage et pouvoir symbolique
This Is Called Free-Falling Theory not Culture Shock!”
Language, institutional identity and integration
Effects of Group Work on English Communicative Competence of Chinese International Graduates in United States Institutions of Higher Education
Learning and growing in a ‘foreign’ context
Tesol and Critical Literacies
The Effects of Community Service Learning Projects on L2 Learners' Cultural Understanding
Service-Learning and Foreign-Language Teacher Education
Implementing Service Learning in Higher Education
The Connections Goal Area in Spanish Community Service‐Learning
An Esol Methods Course in a Latino Neighborhood
International students' reported English fluency, social support satisfaction, and social connectedness as predictors of acculturative stress
Social Identity, Investment, and Language Learning
Second language socialization as sociocultural theory
Situated Learning
Class Habitus
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |