Addressing the Shortage: Strategies for Expanding Asian Language Bilingual Teacher Education in Dual Language Programs

• In Event: Teacher Education from a Global Perspective: Learning from Home and Abroad

Abstract

This paper offers a concise history of Asian Language Bilingual Education in California, and emphasizes the strategies necessary to recruit, retain, and nurture critically conscious bilingual and plurilingual pre-service and in-service teachers. There has been an increase in the dual immersion programs, yet bilingual teacher preparation programs continue to struggle to meet the growing demand with an inequitable impact on Asian Languages. To address the challenge above, the CSU Asian Language Bilingual Teacher Education Program (BTEP) Consortium was re-established to increase the number of credentialed teachers with Asian bilingual authorization. This paper illustrates how the Asian Language BTEP Consortium can prepare future bilingual teachers in challenging English-only policies/monoglossic ideologies while building a more culturally sustaining, inclusive and equitable education.

Authors

• Natalie A. Tran, California State University - Fullerton

• Nirmla Griarte Flores, California State Polytechnic University - Pomona

• Cindy Li, California State University - Los Angeles

• Eduardo Rafael Munoz-Munoz, San José State University

• Linda Pham, California State University - Fullerton

• Vicky C. Xiong-Lor, California State University - Fresno

• Minhye Son, California State University - Dominguez Hills

• Fernando Rodriguez-Valls, California State University - Fullerton