Preparing Students to Participate in Community Events

Glenda Robinson, English Center, Mills College, Oakland
Demonstration: A
Convention Center 202
10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Want adult students to participate in community events but afraid they’ll be linguistically overwhelmed? See how this presenter used project-based learning to give adult students schema-, vocabulary-, and context-building tasks so they could attend and respond to a community screening of a TV documentary about hate crimes.