Diverse Language Profiles: Leveraging Resources of Potential Bilingual Teachers of Color

• In Event: 52.058 - Preparing Bilingual Teachers for the Profession

Abstract

This paper draws upon a database of writings produced by multilingual education undergraduate students over four years, many of them prospective teachers, and with a focus on 25 multilingual students from one cohort year who identified teaching as a probable or possible career. The purposes are to understand language themes particular to multilingual students in a self-reflexive process of inquiry into language use, as a potential means of fostering metalinguistic awareness, an essential component in teaching a diverse student population.

Authors

• Steven Z. Athanases, University of California - Davis

• Leslie C. Banes, University of California - Davis

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