From mentors’ perspectives

Peer mentoring has been used as a tool to ensure students’ success in higher education (Husband & Jacob, 2009; Yomtov et. al., 2015). This study investigated the discourse of university-level peer mentoring from a sociolinguistic perspective. The participants were first-year Linguistics undergraduates at a university in Vietnam, who were invited to join a peer mentoring program in which four or five student-mentees work with one student-mentor to improve their English listening and speaking skills.

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Perspectives: Quarterly newsletter for faculty OFD introduces new programming, initiatives, and items of interest to faculty through our newsletter. We also report on events at Boston Children’s and HMS. Perspectives includes articles on workshops, mentoring, medical education, and leadership development. “Time Out” highlights activities for your time away from the hospital. Lydia Shrier, MD, MPH, in her column “Boston Bites,” reviews metro area restaurants. Jill Dobriner’s “Leisurely Learning” suggests excursions to local cultural and recreational sites....

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