An important piece of YPAR is sharing and disseminating findings after students reflect on how their chosen action shaped the issue they investigated and how they themselves developed through the process of YPAR and community engagement. Very often, this is accomplished with a combination of written and visual media as well as some oral presentation. Since most of our past language development foci have been literacy-based, this one focuses on students' speaking. In this domain, there are a number of supports educators need to provide for multilingual learners to nurture their confidence and capabilities for oral communication in the target language:
Lowering the affective filter (creating a safe and collaborative environment in which students can feel comfortable taking linguistic risks)
Familiarizing students with normative cultural expectations around oral presentations (attending to things like eye contact, voice modulation, use of gestures, and other features of oral communication that my differ across cultures)
Connections to and affordances for students' home languages as appropriate for the student and assignment
Explicit attention to target language structures (connecting to our SFL focus from module 4)
Scaffolding information with graphic organizers and presentation cues
Clarifying expectations with rubrics and exemplars
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