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Turning Languages Into Curriculum: Studies of Curricularization Across Contexts

Fri, April 17, 4:05 to 6:05pm, Virtual Room

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Curricularization consists of “treating language as if it were an ordinary academic subject” (Valdés, 2017, p. 69). Valdés argues that language resists the bounded categories that curricula and traditional language teaching impose. Across contexts, the panel considers the diverse forms that curricularization takes and the barriers it imposes on teachers and students. By attending to an often invisible process, we illuminate assumptions underlying language teaching and to imagine alternative approaches.

This symposium includes presentations about curricularization in the United States, Mexico, and Nepal. Overall, the presentations consider language and literacy assessment, classroom discourse, materials development, heritage language learner dialogue and instruction, and migration. Our discussant, an international expert who has developed the framework of curricularization, will comment on the papers.

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