Roots and Connections: A Culturally Integrated Approach to EAL Instruction

Autor/inn/en	Apedaile, Sarah; Whitelaw, Cheryl
Titel	Roots and Connections: A Culturally Integrated Approach to EAL Instruction
Quelle	In: TESL Canada Journal, 30 (2012) 1, S.127-138 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0826-435X
Schlagwörter	Social Integration; Teaching Methods; Rural Areas; English (Second Language); Foreign Countries; Second Language Learning; Programming; Multicultural Education; Intercultural Communication; Second Language Instruction; Cultural Awareness; Land Settlement; Daily Living Skills; Benchmarking; Language Teachers; Teacher Role; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Integration; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Ausland; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Programmierung; Multikulturelle Erziehung; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Siedlungsraum; Alltagsfertigkeit; Language teacher; Sprachunterricht; Lehrerrolle; Kanada
Abstract	This article describes a culturally integrated approach to teaching English as an Additional Language (EAL) through Roots and Connections: A Culturally Integrated ESL Curriculum for Community Orientation in Alberta. This was developed by the Centre for Intercultural Education to integrate intercultural sensitivity into English-language instruction. Based on a Canadian Language Benchmarks (CLB) approach to language development, it integrates supported community connections and cultural knowledge to provide effective early social integration supports through survival-level language development. This resource is a response to community needs determined through the Rural ESL Enhancement Project. Many rural communities in Alberta were struggling to support the needs of increasingly culturally diverse newcomers, including language programming, settlement services for newcomers, and intercultural sensitivity for community-service providers. This called for a culturally integrated resource in which the content, process, and instructor supports were intentionally designed to meet survival language needs and to develop intercultural sensitivity among all participants, in the service of broader community integration goals. This project demonstrates the enhanced effectiveness of EAL programming that explicitly engages the diversity of its learners using intercultural communication processes and supports the adoption of a culturally integrated approach to other kinds of part- and full-time EAL programming. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10