“My life, my stories”: Reading, writing, and belonging in the ESL classroom

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dc.contributor.authorStewart, Mary Amanda
dc.contributor.authorGenova, Holly
dc.creator.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-0695-7634
dc.date.accessioned2023-04-25T19:45:18Z
dc.date.available2023-04-25T19:45:18Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionArticle originally published in English Journal, 108(3), 34-43. English. Published Online 2019. https://library.ncte.org/journals/ej/issues/v108-3/29967
dc.descriptionPermission to deposit this file was given through direct contact with the publisher. For more information please see the faculty member's entry in Project INDEX -- EDH 7/7/23
dc.description.abstractAs I looked around the room, I noticed my students had their heads down, nearly falling asleep. “Class, what’s wrong?” From across the room, José responded, “Miss, we don’t like the topic of pyramids. And who cares about nomads?” (Student names are pseudonyms.) In that moment, I questioned if this was a teacher win or fail. We had recently learned the vocabulary word topic, and José used it correctly. On the other hand, my students were unengaged and uninterested. This was not due to the language demands of our reading, but it was because they simply did not connect to the content we were learning. Suddenly, I saw the irony: my students are not nomadic people and they’ve never been to the Egyptian pyramids. The beginning ESL curriculum was just not working!en_US
dc.identifier.citationThis is the published version of an article that is available at https://library.ncte.org/journals/ej/issues/v108-3/29967. Recommended citation: Genova, H. & Stewart, M.A. (2019). “My life, my stories”: Reading, writing, and belonging in the ESL classroom. English Journal, 108(3), 34-43.This item has been deposited in accordance with publisher copyright and licensing terms and with the author’s permission.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11274/14876
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.ncte.org/journals/ej/issues/v108-3/29967
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherNational Council of Teachers of Englishen_US
dc.subjectCurriculum for English learnersen_US
dc.subjectLanguage acquisitionen_US
dc.subjectSecond language acquisitionen_US
dc.title“My life, my stories”: Reading, writing, and belonging in the ESL classroomen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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