Multiple Languages as Assets: Leadership and Emergent Bilinguals

• In Event: 81.011 - Leadership, Policy, and Language: Implication for Dual Language Teachers and Learners

Abstract

This study, Multiple Languages as Assets (MLA), strives to better understand the role of leadership in ensuring schools and districts capitalize on the multi-cultural and multiple languages spoken by students they serve. Focusing on an asset-based model, rather than a deficit centered one, has the potential to increase student outcomes in academic and social settings. Potential implications for better supporting Emergent Bilinguals (EB) and their teachers are possible. Specific questions that are addressed include:
• How might schools and districts leverage multiple languages as
assets rather than deficits?
• What is the role of leadership in ensuring multiple languages as
assets?
• How is identity connected to positive constructs of language
development and EB academic success?

Authors

• Hilda Maldonado, Los Angeles Unified School District

• Imelda Nava-Landeros, University of California - Los Angeles

• Marco A. Nava, Los Angeles Unified School District