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The TwPT Project aims to boost the tutees' acadmic performance via effective tutoring that conduct by the tutors with pedagogical training. In order to help you understand project better, we will separately illustrate the content in a brief way:
A) Peer Tutoring Program;
B) Peer Tutors with Pedagogical Training;
C) Tutoring Course (2024, 2025 Spring);

A) Peer Tutoring Program

The SASRC at WKU administers the Peer Tutoring Program, which endeavors to aid students in enhancing their academic performance. Eligible candidates from the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) boasting a cumulative Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.7 or higher (out of 4.0) may seek to provide tutoring for subjects in which they earned A or A- grades after they held the peer tutor positions.

B) Peer Tutors with Pedagogical Training

Peer tutors who have undergone pedagogical training are denoted as candidates who completed the EMSE 3420 course BASIC THEORY/PRAC ENG LEARN (Basic Theory/Practice of English Learners, click here to see more) with an A grade at WKU. They have been equipped with structured pedagogical training, have formulated written teaching strategies, and have had the opportunity to trial their teaching plans in a secure setting. They adopt Bloom’s Taxonomy and follow the ‘BOPPPS’ lesson structure (The capital letter stands for ‘Bridge-in,’ ‘Objectives,’ ‘Pre-assessment,’ ‘Participatory Learning,’ ‘Post-assessment,’ and ‘Summary,’ respectively) for designing each lesson plan. Tutors will use various scaffolding techniques during their teaching process.

C) Tutoring Course
(2024, 2025 Spring)

The tutoring course in this research will be ENG 1430 COLL COMP Ⅱ FOR ELL (Composition Ⅱ for English Language Learners). WKU offers year-long academic writing courses tailored for undergraduate students to acclimate them to the English for Academic Purposes setting. The composition curriculum within the academic program comprises two components: ENG 1300 and ENG 1430. Students who achieve a grade of seventy percent or higher in ENG 1300 are eligible to progress to ENG 1430 in the subsequent semester, thereby fulfilling the course requirements. The ENG 1430 course necessitates the completion of four distinct categories of written compositions:

(a) Rhetorical Analysis,

(b) Bibliography,

(d) Argumentative Essay.