Enriching Multilingual International Student’s Through Integrated Language and Content Instruction

Resumen

Dr. Sandra Zappa-Hollman (PhD in TESL), is an Assistant Professor in Language and Literacy Education and the Director of Academic English programming at Vantage College, University of British Columbia. Her teaching and research contributions aim to support multilingual speakers, particularly those that have English as an additional language, into English-medium academic contexts. Her projects and related publications focus on academic discourse socialization, integration of language and content instruction, interdisciplinary collaborations, development of intercultural competence, and the use of Systemic Functional Linguistics in the teaching of second language academic literacy.