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- Title
Sense of Belonging and First-Year Academic Literacy.
- Authors
Marshall, Steve; Zhou, Mingming; Gervan, Ted; Wiebe, Sunita
- Abstract
In this article, we analyze a broad range of factors that affect the sense of belonging of undergraduate students taking a first-year academic literacy course (ALC) at a multicultural, multilingual university in Vancouver, Canada. Students who fail to meet the university's language and literacy requirements are required to pass ALC before they can enrol in writing courses across the disciplines. Consequently, many of those students feel that they have yet to be accepted as fully legitimate members of the university community. We present data from a two-year, mixed-method study, which involved asking students in surveys and interviews about their sense of belonging, as well as analyzing their reflective writing samples for issues related to their sense of belonging. We found that the participants' perceptions of sense of belonging are multi-layered and context-dependent, relating to changes in time and space, classroom pedagogy, and other social, cultural, and linguistic factors. Implications for higher education are discussed.
- Subjects
VANCOUVER (B.C.); UNDERGRADUATES; UNIVERSITIES &; colleges; LANGUAGE &; languages; SOCIAL belonging
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2012, Vol 42, Issue 3, p116
- ISSN
0316-1218
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.47678/cjhe.v42i3.2044