Transforming Schooling for Emergent Bilinguals: Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session 22

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This symposium brings together educational researchers who have examined policies, pedagogies, and practices that are in some way transforming what we know about the extent to which emergent bilinguals (EBs) learn and achieve in public educational settings. These scholars identify both (1) the current state of schooling for EBs from their perspective, and (2) the particular ways that a policy, pedagogy, or practice transforms schooling as it currently exists for EBs in discernible ways based on empirical findings. Drawing on current and seminal research in second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and educational linguistics, these papers draws on complementary theoretical frameworks that attend to the social, cultural, political, and ideological dimensions of being and becoming bi/multilingual in U.S. public schools.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Bilingual Education Research

Chairs

• P. Zitlali Morales, University of Illinois at Chicago

• Mileidis Gort, University of Colorado - Boulder

Papers

• Reimagining a Least Restrictive Environment in California for Emergent Bilinguals - Ursula S. Aldana, University of San Francisco; Danny C. Martinez, University of California - Davis

• Translanguaging and the Transformation of Classroom Space: On the Affordances of Disrupting Linguistic Boundaries - Ramon Antonio Martinez, Stanford University; Michiko Hikida, The Ohio State University - Columbus; Leah Durán, The University of Arizona

• The Practice of Cariño for Emergent Bilingual Students: Latinx Students in the United States and Indigenous Guatemaltecos - P. Zitlali Morales, University of Illinois at Chicago; Lydia A Saravia, University of Illinois at Chicago