Salter-Dvorak, H (2014) '‘I've never done a dissertation before please help me’: accommodating L2 students through course design.' Teaching in Higher Education, 19 (8). pp. 847-859.
Abstract
This article considers how course design accommodates the adaptation of L2 students into the early stages of the master's dissertation (Social Sciences and Humanities) at a UK university. I present a contrastive process-oriented analysis of two students' experiences on different courses, extracted from a 13-month ethnographic study in which students' self-reports (journals; interviews) were triangulated with their assignments, interviews with lecturers and classroom observation. I identify two ‘literacy events’ in the early stages: discussing the topic and preparing the proposal. In order to make visible these events, I deploy Lave and Wenger's Community of Practice model, while taking a post-structuralist view of learning as a dynamic between language, identities, power relations, affordances and agency. Findings show unequal support for these events on the two courses; I argue that this exemplifies significantly different ideologies relating to the accommodation of L2 students, and discuss implications for course design.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keywords: | L2 students, accommodation, course design, identities, apprenticeship, literacy events |
| Divisions: | School of Education |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Jul 2022 16:45 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Jul 2022 08:35 |
| ISSN: | 1356-2517 |
| URN: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/14876 |
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