31.090 - Radicalizing Writer's Workshop: Disrupting Monolingual Language Ideologies Through Multimodal and Multilingual Practices

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This panel brings together scholars studying writing instruction in diverse contexts with multilingual and bilingual students in K-12 classrooms. Panelists argue for the need to reconsider writing workshop given the critiques of this approach for multilingual students as a method of literacy instruction that promotes student use of their full linguistic repertoires and modalities. The panelists will share new insights on the learning potential of writer’s workshop for bilingual students; illustrate how writing workshop can function as a vehicle to disrupt language ideologies that normalize monolingualism and render bilingual students’ linguistic knowledge invisible; identify key elements of writer’s workshop for multilingual students, the process for implementing these elements, and implications for teacher education.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chair

• Carol Brochin, The University of Arizona

Papers

• Building a Better Workshop: Centering Bilingual Latinx Students - Leah Durán, The University of Arizona

• Envisioning a Bilingual Writer's Workshop: Reclaiming Language, Culture, and Agency in Biliteracy Instruction - Claudia G. Cervantes-Soon, Arizona State University; Rosalyn Harvey-Torres, The University of Texas at Austin

• The Role of Multimodal Texts in Support of Cultural and Linguistic Literacy Practices - Lucia Cardenas Curiel, Michigan State University

• Writer's Workshop and Testimonio: Creating Spaces for Collective Healing in School - Christina P. Denicolo, Wayne State University; Carol Brochin, The University of Arizona

Discussant

• Carmen L. Medina, Indiana University - Bloomington