Publication Date
3-1-2003
Abstract
This article describes an interdisciplinary project that joins a popular curricular model, the learning community, with an increasingly popular pedagogical technique, community-based learning. The combination of the two gives students the opportunity to use language as both an object of and tool for learning, thus situating language at the heart of the learning experience. The development of a learning community creates a curricular space in which faculty and students work together as novices and experts in a specific situation to resolve linguistic and sociocultural issues. This article presents the field experience of 1st-year nursing students who were enrolled in a medical Spanish class.
Recommended Citation
Overfield, Denise M.
(2003)
"Creating a Language Learning Community Within and Beyond the Classroom,"
Dimensions: Vol. 38, Article 2.
Available at:
https://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/dimensions/vol38/iss1/2