Dual Language Bilingual Education: Trends, Policy, Pedagogy, and Future Directions

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium aims to dismantle racial and linguistic injustice to reclaim Dual Language Bilingual Education (DLBE) through a theoretical grounding for transforming DLBE to be spaces of equity by focusing on decolonial, nepantlera and raciolinguistic ideologies, theories, and practices (Garcia, et al., 2023). Despite three decades of policy and practice in the U.S., much of the discourse about bilingual education has been framed in defense and against monolingual, assimilationist discourses. This symposium reframes DLBE from a critical stance to construct a research-based alternative discourse and set future directions for critically and pluralistically grounded research. Scholars from across the country will discuss the current state of knowledge, overview of trends, issues, research, applications to policy, practice, and future directions in DLBE.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Bilingual Education Research

Chairs

• Cristina Alfaro, San Diego State University

• Ester J. de Jong, University of Colorado - Denver

Papers

• Academic and Language Outcomes in Spanish-English DLBE (Dual Language Bilingual Education) Programs - Elizabeth R. Howard, University of Connecticut

• Critical Consciousness in Dual Language Bilingual Education: A Literature Review of Students’ Outcomes - Juan A. Freire, Brigham Young University; Erika Feinauer, Brigham Young University

• Named, Unnamed, and Coded Oppressions: Applying Intersectionality to Dual-Language Bilingual Education Programs - Alexandra Babino, Texas Woman's University

• A Literature Review of Raciolinguistics in Dual-Language Bilingual Education: A Call for Conceptualizing Racialization - Laura Chavez-Moreno, University of California - Los Angeles

• Translanguaging in Dual Language Bilingual Education in the United States: Framings, Research, and Possibilities - Maite Sanchez, Hunter College - CUNY