College Writing for ELL Students

They defined 5 criteria for threshold concepts:

My initial reaction to the list, perhaps because so much of my work is with first-year students, is that it seems to represent the stumbling blocks for librarians in learning their discipline and not necessarily where we expect students to get stuck, often because we don’t expect them to reach these points in their thinking and learning.

librarians are trying to get students to think like an information professional when approaching their research problems.