Me-Mapping

To ameliorate, optimize, and empower refugee storytellers, ECAR at Clemson invited Dr. Antoinette Gagné, Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, to present a new ESOL technique centering language learning on identity-sharing, known as Me-Mapping, with ECAR students on the Creative Inquiry team.

At its core, Me-Mapping enables English language learners to share what’s most essential about them; this gives pupils the foundation from which more advanced English communication skills are constructed. Dr. Gagné led an experiential learning workshop where ECAR students were asked to perform Me-Mapping on themselves, thereby granting students familiarity with the technique.