Language Across Borders: Multilingual Realities and Linguistic Justice in Global Classrooms

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium provides a critical look into language education across Egypt, Pakistan, and U.S. contexts. Collectively, the three papers illuminate how language ideologies and practices are shaped by power relations and histories of English hegemony in those settings. Using a range of methodologies from pláticas to traditional qualitative methods and mixed methods, the studies challenge English-centric, assimilationist ideologies that inform language education across the globe. Taken together, these papers highlight shared histories and current realities across different marginalized language communities in the Global North and South, allowing us to rethink language in ways that center linguistic justice and context-sensitive pedagogies.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 3: Languages, Literacies, and Representations

Chair

• Elisa Marisol Serrano, University of Texas - San Antonio

Papers

• “I Feel Our Situation is Completely Different!” Persisting Monolingual Ideologies Among International School Egyptian Teachers - Alia Shalaby, Pennsylvania State University

• Language in Reading Research: The Case of a Middle-Tier English-Medium Private School in Pakistan - Saulat Pervez, International Institute of Islamic Thought

• Pláticas as Pedagogy: Fostering Linguistic Consciousness Among Latinx Youth - Elisa Marisol Serrano, University of Texas - San Antonio

Session Organizer

• Elisa Marisol Serrano, University of Texas - San Antonio

Discussant

• Noor Ali, Northeastern University