Corona pandemic & international students

The activity below was designed by a Turkish as a foreign language teacher Y. Ç. at Foreign Languages and English Preparatory School at Eastern Mediterranean University in 2019-2020 Spring semester as part of in service teacher training program on authentic learning.

Authentic activity:

You are a teacher at EMU and you see that students who couldn’t go back to their countries during the Corona pandemic are having difficult times in Cyprus. You tried to contact some politicians regarding the issue however either you couldn’t reach them as they are too busy with dealing the problems Corona caused in the society (such as health and economic) or they told you that they don’t have enough data (evidence) regarding the kinds of the problems students are having. Therefore, you decided to contact these students and gather information about the types of the problems they are having and then write an article to publish in a national newspaper (for example Kıbrıs gazetesi) or a local newspaper. You think that in doing so you will be able to reach a big amount of people who can help these students.