Creating a Community of English Language Learners

Imagined Communities

Dynamic Bilingualism

• Heteroglossic language ideologies
• Global citizens need to negotiate bilingual spaces
• Language as fluid & complex
• Develop metalinguisitc awareness
• Multiple linguistic identities

Empowerment in the Present

Sociocultural perspective on learning

Creating a Community of Learners

• Honoring students' lived experiences
• Engaging their interests
• Proposing goals that have meaning outside the classroom

Take up, transform, appropriate the knowledgeable skills involved in joint activities.

Students have an opportunity to re-narrate their identities as literate, comepetent individuals.

My ESL 186 Class

Survey: Your Professional Goal?

• Transfer to SF State To get dental hygienist license in CA Being a good citizen with high educated skills. CPA Certificate Something relating to math Child Development Associate Degree Get a dental assistant certificate I wanna be a web designer. I am thinking. Not sure yet I would like to became a teacher. Get a job in a social working Gain a certificate in Accounting and technologies Become a Teacher. Programmer Film Run own business Stock trader My professional goal is Video Game Maker Nurse

Authentic Texts

Book Club Groups

Friday Breakfast Club

Student Services

Writing for an authentic audience

Discussion Forum: "Gulp"

• The most interesting thing in this chapter is that taste and smell are related .I love sweets items. Sometimes I take a whiff of a bag of chocolates before buying it.
• Hi. I have heard about the relationship between smell and taste, such as a special snack stinky tofu in China. It smells stinky and doesn't look too good, but people who have tried it usually will like it.
• Hi Audelia, I also love the smell of bread just made, it reminds me Colombian's panaderias. It was irresistible for when all the block smells to bread, and I had to go to buy some warm bread and it tastes so good. That memory makes me miss my country a lot. Unfortunately I haven't found a really good bread in San Francisco. Let me know if you know a really good panaderia.

Digital Portfolios

"Being in this group has bitter taste, and sweet taste. we enjoy it, We are all together learning . We are all suffering from it, we learn under the pressure and from the mistakes. As long as we don't give up, nothing can stop us."