Awakening Identity: Using Exploratory, Student-Led Tasks to Build Motivation and Engagement in Postsecondary EAL Learning
This session presents a practical and adaptable approach to open education that places students’ identities, experiences, and cultural knowledge at the centre of learning. Building on classroom cases from both K–12 and postsecondary contexts in China and Canada, the session explores how identity-based, exploratory tasks can support motivation, engagement, and adaptation among multilingual learners in…