Samantha Sergi
DARE Project: Experiential education-focused and multimodality-enhanced instructional design for English for academic purposes (EAP) teaching through collaborative action research
Program(s) of Study: Speech and Language Sciences
Project Supervisor: Heejin Song, Jacqueline Ng, and Olga Makinina
I hope our findings and implications can inspire other institutions that house English as a Second Language (ESL) students so they can be better equipped to redesign and implement similar tasks and assignments into ESL courses.
Project Description:
The DARE research project I am participating in seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of an Experiential Education (EE)-focused multimodalities-enhanced English as a Second Language (ESL) course re-design project at York University. The course provides students with the opportunity to examine their own transnational identities, while simultaneously amplifying the perspectives and experiences of racialized and minoritized communities in Canada. Within the project, my primary responsibilities included organizing and transcribing focus group interviews, completing thematic analysis, and coding data on Dedoose software, all while closely analyzing the work of the primary investigators.The Dean’s Award for Research Excellence (DARE) - Undergraduate enables our students to meaningfully engage in research projects supervised by LA&PS faculty members. Find out more about DARE.