Crossing the Curriculum : Multilingual Learners in College Classrooms

by Zamel, Vivian; Spack, Ruth; Spack, Ruth; Sternglass, Marilyn S.

• ISBN13: 9780805846911
• ISBN10: 0805846913
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

As college classrooms have become more linguistically diverse, the work of ESOL professionals has expanded to include research on the experiences of multilingual learners not only in ESOL courses but also in courses across the curriculum. At the same time that ESOL professionals are trying to understand the academic challenges that learners face beyond ESOL courses, faculty across the disciplines are trying to meet the challenge of teaching students of differing linguistic backgrounds.Crossing the Curriculum: Multilingual Learners in College Classroomsresponds to these issues and concerns by capturing the complex and content-specific nature of students' and teachers' experiences and providing a nuanced understanding of how multilingual students' learning can be fostered and sustained. Crossing the Curriculum: Multilingual Learners in College Classroomsis unique in bringing together the perspectives of researchers, students, and teachers. These multiple lenses allow for a richly layered picture of how students and teachers actually experience college classrooms. Common themes and pedagogical principles resonate across the three distinct sections of the book: *Part One, "Investigating Students' Experiences Across the Curriculum: Through the Eyes of Classroom Researchers," consists of chapters written by ESOL and composition researchers who have investigated multilingual students' experiences in undergraduate courses across the curriculum. *Part Two, "Learning Across the Curriculum: Through Students' Eyes," consists of chapters written by two multilingual learners who chronicled their experiences as they crossed the curriculum over time. *Part Three, "Engaging Students in Learning: Through the Eyes of Faculty Across the Curriculum," consists of chapters written by faculty from several academic fields--Anthropology, Philosophy, Nursing, Literature, Sociology, and Asian American Studies--who discuss their own attempts to address the needs of multilingual learners in their classrooms.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
PART I Investigating Students' Experiences Across the Curriculum: Through the Eyes of Classroom Researchers	1	(94)
1 Strangers in Academia: The Experiences of Faculty and ESOL Students Across the Curriculum	3	(16)
Vivian Zamel
2 The Acquisition of Academic Literacy in a Second Language: A Longitudinal Case Study, Updated	19	(28)
Ruth Spack
3 "It became easier over time": A Case Study of the Relationship Between Writing, Learning, and the Creation of Knowledge	47	(14)
Marilyn S. Sternglass
4 Lessons From Ming: Helping Students Use Writing to Learn	61	(14)
Trudy Smoke
5 From Outsider to Insider: Studying Academic Discourse Communities Across the Curriculum	75	(20)
Eleanor Kutz
PART II Learning Across the Curriculum: Through Students' Eyes	95	(32)
6 Martha's Reflections on Learning Across the Curriculum	97	(14)
Martha Muñoz
Diving In	97	(3)
The Absence of Chemistry	100	(2)
Literary Metamorphosis	102	(2)
More Than 6 American Writers	104	(2)
"What's That?"	106	(2)
The Language of Immunology	108	(3)
7 Motoko's Reflections on Learning Across the Curriculum	111	(16)
Motoko Kainose
Best Intentions: A Small Storm	111	(2)
The Sounds of Silence	113	(3)
The Discipline of the Tea Ceremony	116	(5)
The Myth of Quiet Chinese	121	(2)
Commentary: What Motivated Me the Most	123	(4)
PART III Engaging Students in Learning: Through the Eyes of Faculty Across the Curriculum	127	(94)
8 Excelling in the Critical Study of Culture: The Multilingual-Multicultural Student Advantage	129	(16)
Tim Sieber
9 When Writing-to-Learn Is Not Enough	145	(18)
Stephen M. Fishman and Lucille McCarthy
10 Writing in Nursing Education and Nursing Practice	163	(18)
Kristine Beyerman Alster
11 The Soil Under the Gravel: ESOL Learners and Writing About Literature	181	(16)
Rajini Srikanth
12 "Still Cannot Solve It": Engaging ESOL Students in the Classroom Conversation	197	(10)
Estelle Disch
13 Voicing Names and Naming Voices: Pedagogy and Persistence in an Asian American Studies Classroom	207	(14)
Peter Nien-chu Kiang
About the Contributors	221	(2)
Author Index	223	(4)
Subject Index	227