Teacher Candidates' Scaffolding of Authorial Agency and Audience Awareness with Elementary Multilingual Writers

• In Event: Preparing Teachers for Multilingual Classrooms: Agency, Audience, and Innovation in Literacy Instruction

Abstract

For writers to have agency (Healy & Gardner, 2022), they must have control over content (Wyse, 2017) and process choices (Flower & Hays, 1980) for their compositions. Current writing curricula tend to dampen children’s agency or push it underground rather than seek to develop it in the context of school-based writing (Dyson, 2020). This study investigates how TCs (teacher candidates) scaffold elementary multilingual writers to develop agency and effective decision making for an authentic audience.

Authors

• Pamela Hickey, Towson University

• Vicki McQuitty, Towson University

• Briana Mercado, Towson University

• Christina Pena, Towson University

• Riley Scott, Towson University