Sharing Lives, Sharing Languages: A Pilot Peer Education Project for New Scots’ Social and Language Integration

Primary Author or Creator:
Lavinia Hirsu
Additional Author(s) / Creators
Emily Bryson
Publisher:
Scottish Refugee Council
Alternative Published Date
2017
Category:
Type of Resource:
Report
Length (Pages, words, minutes etc...)
78pp
Fast Facts

Brings together non-native English speakers and local community members under the coordination of peer educators.

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Key Recommendations

  • • Expand the project timeline to allow for the development of more group activities, the sharing of skills and evaluation of impact.
  • • Develop the current set of resources into a Toolkit which can be widely shared to support future and current groups with peer activities. Accompany this with bespoke training sessions for new groups across Scotland.
  • • Expand the scope and context of the project to allow participation on a larger scale and measure the impact of a larger sample of participants and approaches.
  • • Engage more local peers with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
  • • Use multiple strategies to reach out to News Scots via digital platforms and mobile group meetings.
  • • Provide multimodal opportunities for language acquisition such as using artefacts, images and videos.
  • • Support peer sessions by focussing on common peer experiences, artefacts and collective actions.
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