A Community-Based Learning Project “Campus Tour Guide”
Designed by Angela Lee-Smith (Yale University)
[Sample] Bulldog Campus Tour Brochure
- Proficiency Range: Intermediate-high to Advanced Proficiency
- Applicable Language ALL
- Education Setting: FL/HL learners in K-12 and higher education setting
- Project Goal: Students experience language learning through community/genre/place-based project activities to meet the well-rounded language learning goals in the 21st century: Communication, Culture, Connection, Comparisons, and Community.
- Project Rationale: College Campus where students live for four years in their renaissance period of their lives- what it is and what it means from the community members’ perspectives.
- Project Description This project is structured as a collaborative effort between the language class and the University community-Visitor Center- to create a written brochure and guide for a campus tour in the target language. Each student in the course chooses one of the most important or unique features of the campus and write an informative text about it. Finally, the students in the course present this brochure and tour guide to potential incoming students and their families who visited the campus during late spring.
- Project Outcomes
- Major Tasks Written brochure production and oral tour guide
- Project Duration: 2~3 weeks (2-3 days of in-class work included)
- Community Type: Campus community- No local community nearby
- Primary Genre: Expository
- Pedagogical Approaches: Genre-based literacy/Place-based Learning/ Community-based Service Learning/ Standards-based/ Project-based
- ProM Planner ProM Bulldog Day Campus Tour
- Supplemental Materials
- Classroom Action Research