Columns: Teaching Multilingual Learners: “It Is Only the Language Problem”: Increasing Multilingual Learners’ Motivation to Write through Collaborative Writing
Abstract
Two teachers reflect on leveraging learners’ agency, authentic writing tasks, and responsive teaching to better promote their multilingual students’ writing motivation in collaborative writing activities.
Faculty Members
- Melody Zoch - Salisbury University, Salisbury, Marylandfsears1@gulls.salisbury.eduUniversity of Maryland, College Park, Marylandhzeng123@umd.edu
- Faith Thompson - Salisbury University, Salisbury, Marylandfsears1@gulls.salisbury.edu
- Hongye Zeng - University of Maryland, College Park, Marylandhzeng123@umd.edu
Themes
- Collaborative learning
- Learners' agency
- Writing motivation
- Responsive teaching
- Authentic writing tasks
- Multilingual education