Where in the World are World Languages?

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

As a part of the historical and sociopolitical formation of the U.S., language education reflects exclusionary and socially stratifying practices that continue today. Thus, the ability to enter, advance in, teach and research within WLs is fractured along lines of institutional and organizational models of scarcity which decontextualize its potential as an accessible and representative field particularly for racially minoritized and economically repressed groups. From the vantage point of Teacher Education, Language Pedagogy and Hispanic Linguistics (our areas of expertise) we commit to unforgetting by reclaiming the focus on world language education within professional organizations and departmental structures highlighting how the silencing of WL study and praxis over time has and must continue to be contested from critical orientations.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Second Language Research

Chair

• Tasha Austin, University at Buffalo - SUNY

Papers

• Where is World Language Education in Hispanic Linguistics? - Aris M. Clemons, University of Tennessee

• Where is World Language Education in Teacher Education? - Tasha Austin, University at Buffalo - SUNY

• Where is World Language Education in Language Pedagogy? - L.J. Randolph, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Session Organizer

• Tasha Austin, University at Buffalo - SUNY

Discussant

• Aris M. Clemons, University of Tennessee