Across the Undergraduate Curricula: Immigrant Students' Difficulties with Information Literacy
Type of Presentation
Individual paper/presentation (20 minute presentation)
Target Audience
Higher Education
Location
Room 217
Proposal
See presentation description.
Short Description
Little research has investigated the various types of academic literacy’s, including information literacy, and contexts in which these literacy’s are situated across the curriculum, that immigrant students encounter at the university. To understand how immigrant students negotiated information literacy across the undergraduate curriculum, the types of information literacy genres and tasks that were included in the academic contexts students negotiated, the challenges students faced in completing the information literacy tasks they encountered across the undergraduate curriculum, and the strategies they utilized to overcome these challenges, a multiple case study was carried out. This presentation showcases the results of this multiple cross-case study of the information literacy of three immigrant student participants and the information literacy they negotiated in contexts such as business, freshman composition, and biology. In addition, the presentation will include a discussion of the difficulties the participants faced with information literacy, the strategies they utilized to overcome the difficulties, and the contexts they negotiated across the curriculum.
Publication Type and Release Option
Presentation (Open Access)
Recommended Citation
Crosby, Cate, "Across the Undergraduate Curricula: Immigrant Students' Difficulties with Information Literacy" (2011). Georgia International Conference on Information Literacy. 56.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/gaintlit/2011/2011/56
Across the Undergraduate Curricula: Immigrant Students' Difficulties with Information Literacy
Room 217
See presentation description.
