Second Language Literacies and Community Spaces: Decentering Space and Decentralizing Language in Our City

• In Event: Multilingual Learners' Experiences in Academic and Community Spaces

Abstract

This paper shares the findings of a two-year qualitative study grounded in ethnography that has explored the degrees of languaging use and ownership of different communities that have turned to second language literacies as part of their establishment and growth. Our analysis recognizes how second languages in a Latin American city are helping create multiple grassroots communities that are fostering its ongoing reinvention as a plurilingual arena.

Authors

• Raúl Alberto Mora, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana

• Elizabeth Agudelo

• Sara Jaramillo, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana

• Ana Maria Herrera

• Yuly Cárdenas

• Helena Yepes

• Emanuel Correa, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana

• Christian Salazar, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana