How Service-Learning in Spanish Speaks to the Crisis in the Humanities

Carney, Terri

doi:10.1353/hpn.2013.0035

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“…The aspirations of these sessions are to narrow the distance between the university and the community and to increase civic engagement. A reflection of this can be found when students express their interest in working in the community beyond the requirement (Carney, 2013). In fact, my students only had to take a course to fulfill the requirement and most of them stayed the whole academic year.…”

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“…One of the main benefits of offering a Spanish course with a service-learning component at the university level is increasing the rigor of the Spanish programs through meaningful community partnerships and reinforcing the intellectual engagement of our students in and outside of the classroom (Carney, 2013). In addition, there are also linguistic advantages for our students.…”

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“…Therefore, it is easier to connect the content covered in the classroom with that in the service. Moreover, since these topics are politically charged, there is a demand for civic and ethical engagement (Carney, 2013). This engagement is extended to students' studies and the impact service-learning has on retention (Gallini & Moely, 2003).…”

Section: The Role Of Service In a Spanish Coursementioning

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“…Ultimately, the university can educate agents of social change (through advocacy, activism, or social justice). This is one of the most radical and transformational pedagogies since it connects theory and practice, the academic world and the real world, and different approaches to learning and thinking (Carney, 2013). Moreover, students take an active part in the creation of knowledge as a result of interaction and reflection.…”

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“…It must be placed within a curriculum that promotes engaged learning inside and outside the classroom (Caldwell, 2007). According to Carney (2013), one of the central goals of service-learning is fostering citizenship and moral development as well as academic excellence. Given my experience teaching Spanish with a service-learning component, in this article the focus is on how this can contribute to developing students' linguistic and pragmatic competence as well as their cultural knowledge of the community while at the same time they are working towards equality and integration.…”

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Service-learning for students of spanish: promoting civic engagement and social justice through an exchange tutoring

Burgo

2016

Rev. lingüíst. leng. apl.

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Service-learning courses are designed to promote civic engagement and social justice, and to connect the classroom with the community in an environment of cooperation and mutual interest. In this article, a service-learning course of Spanish at the university level is supported as a reciprocal language exchange between the campus and the community. According to this course proposal, students attend a Latino community site once a week, where their members are tutored in English and American culture, while students are tutored in Spanish and Spanish-speaking culture. This way, service-learning is connected to the Spanish classroom through "Reflection" sessions led by mentors visiting the class periodically. This course was designed so that students would be able to improve their conversation skills in this exchange tutoring service while they are involved with the community by seeing their members as equal peers.Keywords: civic engagement, community-based learning, cultural awareness knowledge, second language teaching, service-learning.Resumen: Los cursos de aprendizaje-servicio son diseñados para promover el compromiso cívico y la justicia social, y para conectar el aula con la comunidad en un entorno de cooperación y de interés mutuo. En este artículo se aboga por un curso de aprendizaje-servicio de español a nivel universitario como un intercambio lingüístico recíproco entre el campus y la comunidad. Según esta propuesta de curso, una vez a la semana los estudiantes asisten a un centro comunitario latino donde les dan una tutoría en inglés y en cultura americana a sus miembros mientras estos les dan una tutoría en español y de la cultura hispanohablante a los estudiantes. De esta manera el aprendizaje-servicio se conecta a la clase de español a través de sesiones de "Reflexiones" lideradas por mentores que visitan la clase periódicamente. Este curso fue diseñado para que los estudiantes pudieran mejorar sus habilidades conversacionales en este servicio de intercambio de tutorías mientras se involucran con la comunidad viendo a sus miembros como iguales.Palabras clave: compromiso cívico, aprendizaje basado en la comunidad, conocimiento de la conciencia cultural, enseñanza de segunda lengua, aprendizaje-servicio.

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Service-learning for students of spanish: promoting civic engagement and social justice through an exchange tutoring

Burgo

2016

Rev. lingüíst. leng. apl.

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Supporting Student Learning Outcomes Through Service Learning

Bettencourt

2015

Foreign Language Annals

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Because of the current emphasis on accountability at the elementary, secondary, and postsecondary levels across all content areas, accreditation agencies, administrators, program designers, course developers, faculty, and students have increasingly focused on stating and measuring student learning outcomes and documenting the relationship between learning activities and achievement of those outcomes. In the three‐way service‐learning partnership made up of the student, the faculty member, and the community partner, student learning is sometimes vaguely defined, often simply assumed to occur, and usually only indirectly assessed. In addition, the extent to which course‐specific learning outcomes are supported during service learning is also unclear. Using action research and the DEAL model for critical reflection, this study measured university‐level, Intermediate Spanish learners’ attainment of course‐specific and non‐course‐specific learning outcomes. Analysis of oral reflective journals, surveys, focus group responses, and interviews indicated that students’ service learning experiences supported most course‐specific learning outcomes and also offered learning opportunities in other unexpected areas.

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Affordances, complexities, and challenges of intercultural citizenship for foreign language teachers

Porto

2019

Foreign Language Annals

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This article explores the intercultural and citizenship dimensions of foreign language teaching and discusses, in particular, the implications for foreign language teaching and teacher education. The work (1) extends the fundamental concepts that were developed by Byram and Wagner () in this journal—that foreign language education has instrumental purposes but also educational aims that constitute the development of the individual and of societies by fostering democratic competences and values and linking the language learning that takes place in classrooms with the community, whether local, regional, or global; and (2) links language education and community engagement in the form of service‐learning, which was also addressed in this journal by Palpacuer Lee, Curtis, and Curran (). An intercultural citizenship project carried out in Argentina serves as illustration. Pedagogical implications are offered.

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How Service-Learning in Spanish Speaks to the Crisis in the Humanities

Cited by 14 publications

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Service-learning for students of spanish: promoting civic engagement and social justice through an exchange tutoring

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