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Dismantling Language Dichotomies in Teacher Education

Thu, April 21, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT (8:00 to 9:30am PDT), Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, Floor: North Building, Lobby Level, Marriott Grand Ballroom 3

Session Type: Symposium

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In this symposium, scholars from the field of multilingual instruction problematize binaries in language education, including challenging the idea that language can be separated into academic versus social language. Scholars will present studies in pre-service and in-service teacher education that explore the challenges of confronting language dichotomies with teachers in teacher-education settings. The session is aimed at both challenging present norms of language dichotomies and also offering teacher educators and researchers with new directions toward alternatives that value, rather than categorize, students’ language use (in all languages and language varieties). We hope that this work will help in constructing a community of scholars who are committed to this work.

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