Education Students' Inventories of Personal Language Use: Potentialities and Restrictions in Linguistic Repertoires

• In Event: 49.088 - Roundtable Session 17
  In Roundtable Session: 49.088-12 - Preservice Teacher Awareness and Attitudes of English Language Learners

Abstract

Teacher education has been slow to include linguistic diversity in preparing teachers for a diverse student population. Greater attention is needed to deepen teachers’ knowledge of language diversity to keep pace with what we need to know about students and their language uses that can be tapped and developed in academic learning and contexts beyond school. Drawing upon a database of language inventories completed by 262 undergraduate education students, many of them prospective teachers, this study examines these students’ diverse uses of language(s), using a pedagogical activity that promotes self-reflexive inquiry into language diversity.

Authors

• Steven Z. Athanases, University of California - Davis

• Leslie C. Banes, University of California - Davis

• BernNadette Thokozile Best-Green, University of California - Davis

• Joanna W. Wong, California State University - Monterey Bay

• Danny C. Martinez, University of California - Davis