How does The Discovery of Competence approach fit
with Goen's principles and strategies for the SFSU IRW program?
Surely
Goen-Salter and the other faculty at SFSU who were designing the university’s
FYC program had read The Discovery of
Competence.
The
IRW instructors at SFSU believe that the students they teach are fully capable
of meeting FYC proficiency after a single year of remediation, and the students
in these classes are viewed as members of the academic community already—two
viewpoints that jive closely with Discovery
of Competence.
The
pedagogy underlying the IRW program clearly views students as acquiring
academic language in the context of their own reading and writing, so the idea
of “use” and “need” in language acquisition is being utilized. Writing assignments
seek to build cognitive and metacognitive skill, and the IRW program teachers appear to read
student work not as error-laden but as moving toward academic discourse. Indeed, the premise of the course is that students can be brought immediately into the academic community and will gradually acquire the skills to communicate within it.
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