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Anh Q. Pham

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This poster reflects research conducted as part of a course project designed to give students experience in the research process. Course: EDT 110

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Description

This project seeks to define what social support is, analyze the reasons as to why it is necessary—especially for emergent bilinguals—and elaborate on the role that various members of a school community play in helping to foster it. Social support is a multifaceted term that encompasses a number of other types of support, including, but not limited to, emotional, informational, and instrumental support. It is essentially rooted in the idea of connection, whether that be to other individuals, resources, or opportunities. For adolescent emergent bilinguals—students who are improving their English proficiency in addition to strengthening their own primary language—social support is intricately interconnected to their academic development; it serves to be an entry point to various communal and institutionalized resources, such as the formation of relationships, engagement in extracurriculars, and subject-focused discussions that otherwise would not be attainable. In relation to the topic of social support, the following presentation will further discuss how pulling emergent bilinguals out of the mainstream classroom environment and placing them into entirely separate learning communities ultimately hinders them from accessing the aforementioned resources that are imperative to progressing academically.Thus, school administration, teachers, and students have a collective responsibility to be culturally responsive and inclusive; and to emphasize that the diverse backgrounds of emergent bilinguals are an asset to classroom enrichment.

Publication Date

4-22-2021

Project Designation

Course Project

Primary Advisor

Vanessa G. Winn

Primary Advisor's Department

Teacher Education

Keywords

Stander Symposium project, School of Education and Health Sciences

United Nations Sustainable Development Goals

Quality Education

The Crucial Role of Social Support in the Academic Development of Adolescent Emergent Bilinguals

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