Taking the High Road to Transfer: Building Bridges between English and Psychology

Autor/inn/en	Fallon, Dianne; Lahar, Cindy J.; Susman, David
Titel	Taking the High Road to Transfer: Building Bridges between English and Psychology
Quelle	In: Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 37 (2009) 1, S.41-55 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0098-6291
Schlagwörter	Transfer of Training; Metacognition; Information Sources; Psychology; Two Year College Students; Community Colleges; College English; English Instruction; Freshman Composition; Writing Skills; Student Research; Interdisciplinary Approach; Maine + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Information source; Informationsquelle; Psychologie; Community college; Community College; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht; Writing skill; Schreibfertigkeit; Studentenforschung; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität
Abstract	Do students transfer the skills that they learn in English 101 to other courses and contexts? Often, it seems that they do not--or, at least, that the transfer is not visible or readily apparent. On the positive side, however, one may underestimate the complex nature of many of the tasks that students undertake, often for the first time, in the introductory writing course: using a vast array of information sources to conduct research, evaluating information, and integrating sources and text material with their own ideas. At community colleges, especially, many students arrive having never cited sources or formatted a bibliography, yet most who complete English 101 leave the course understanding the reasons for doing so and able to do so, if not always perfectly, at least passably. This article discusses an assessment project aimed at examining transfer of learning from English 101 to a subsequent psychology course. The project provided insight on transfer and on student metacognition and also created a rich opportunity to exchange scholarship and ideas between disciplines. (Contains 1 table.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10