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Communicative Competence: Looking Within and Across Public Schooling Contexts to Examine Language and Power

Tue, April 17, 10:35am to 12:05pm, New York Hilton Midtown, Floor: Fourth Floor, Holland Suite

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium presents ethnographic studies from two countries separated by the Atlantic Ocean: the United States and Spain. Despite geographical distance, both nation-states have experienced significant demographic shifts resulting from immigration that have changed the social and linguistic landscape of public schooling in recent decades. The five papers examine how displays and evaluations of communicative competence––those ideologically- and power-laden processes of language use and assessment that take place in everyday interaction––shape learning and identity formation in classrooms. The panel focuses on pre-service teachers, teachers and students, and children’s peer groups to show how power is wielded, ceded, and resisted during interactions with stakeholders from non-dominant communities (i.e., Moroccan students in Spain and undocumented Spanish speakers in the U.S.).

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