Purpose:
The purpose of my sabbatical is to explore
new ways of supporting the development of multilingual students as readers and
writers at the College of Lake County.
As Faculty Coordinator of the Writing Center and as an English
instructor who teaches both in the Developmental English and the ELI (English
Language Instruction) programs, I have seen firsthand the complexity of the
multilingual student population at the college and the diversity of their
linguistic and literacy needs. These
are needs that can rarely be met by the classroom experience alone. That is one of the reasons that the
Writing Center is seeing more and more multilingual student writers every
semester—both those enrolled in ELI or ESL courses and those in college-level
coursework.
With this in mind, I plan to research best
practices and explore innovations in supporting the literacy and linguistic development needs of multilingual
writers across the curriculum outside of
the classroom—in the writing center, through additional programming, and/or
through materials/resources.
