Pedagogies of Hope: New Trends in Bilingual Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Emergent bilinguals are the fastest growing demographics in U.S. public schools. However, their education has been unnecessarily monolingual and dismissive of the funds of knowledge they bring to classrooms. Therefore, it is imperative to develop meaningful and heterogeneous contexts of learning that value and sustain their cultural and linguistic repertoires in meeting academic challenges. This panel explores three cutting edge approaches which hold the promise of fostering such hybrid educational spaces to advance bilingual and biliteracy development: Translanguaging as Pedagogy, TransAcquisition Pedagogy (TAP), and Culturally Sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics (CSSFL). These new trends represent pedagogies of hope that aim to enact more equitable and humanizing instructional practices and to transform schooling into a force for social justice.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Bilingual Education Research

Chair

• Wayne E. Wright, Purdue University

Papers

• Translanguaging as Humanizing and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy - Zhongfeng Tian, Boston College; Hima Rawal, Michigan State University; Peter Ignatius De Costa, Michigan State University

• Moving Translanguaging Theory to Praxis: A Comparative Study of Preservice and In-Service Teachers - Matthew R Deroo, University of Miami; Christina M. Ponzio, Michigan State University

• TransAcquisition Pedagogy: Biliterate Teaching of Academic English in Māori-Immersion Schools of Aotearoa/New Zealand - Sophie Tauwehe Tamati, University of Auckland

• Culturally Sustaining Systemic Functional Linguistics Praxis: Multilingual and Multisemiotic Meaning Making With Middle Schoolers - Ruth Harman, University of Georgia - Athens; Lourdes Cardozo-Gaibisso, University of Georgia - Athens; Jason D. Mizell, University of Georgia - Athens

Discussant

• Wayne E. Wright, Purdue University