To Know English Only is not Enough: Chaos Theory and Dual Language Learning

• In Event: Roundtable Session 41
  In Roundtable Session: Complexity and Education

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to use complexity and chaos theory as a lens for exploring and moving beyond contemporary pedagogical dichotomies of language learning as additive/subtractive or input/output and into cultural hybridity models of language learning that might more accurately reflect the contexts and the complex, social nature of language learning for all students rather than one segment of the student population.

Author

• Stanley Shane Snelson, The University of Texas - Brownsville