ABSTRACT
In enabling a space for student success, we combined classical ideas of scaffolded learning with a Pasifika concept of Talanoa in which a space is opened up for shared dialogue and learning. In bridging the students into academic writing, the course first started with the worlds of the students, students learnt to read their world and the information of that world, students then rewrite that world so that they develop their own stories of success in education. In a way, this course became a step into critical literacy, and enabled success simply by starting in the world of the students and creating a conversation.
