51.061 - Disrupting and Deconstructing Dominant Language Ideologies: Reconceptualizing Languages in Use

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium will engage participants with the possibilities of undoing long-held language ideologies that delegate students as capable or not capable language users. As language education research critiques the common linguistic/metalinguistic approaches to teaching, each paper presentation rethinks languaging in ways that reflect students’ dynamic uses and understandings of language. This symposium embodies the conference theme bringing findings from three research studies into conversation to generate data-rich, multimodal narratives and address the dynamic linguistic and agential flows that make community life.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Language and Social Processes

Chair

• Angie Zapata, University of Missouri

Papers

• Dominant Language Ideologies in Dual-Language Education: A Call to Reimagine (and Imagine Beyond) Bilingualism - Ramon Antonio Martinez, Stanford University

• Disrupting Standard and Monolingual Language Ideologies in Teacher Education: Toward More Expansive Views of Language - Danny C. Martinez, University of California - Davis; P. Zitlali Morales, University of Illinois at Chicago

• "Now That I'm Thinking About It...": Examining Students' Malleable Language Ideologies in Elementary and Secondary Schools - Mike Metz, Univeristy of Missouri; Angie Zapata, University of Missouri

Discussant

• Luis Ernesto Poza, San José State University