Developing Collaborative, Critical, and Creative Multilingual Language Awareness Through Multilingual Inquiry

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 13
  In Roundtable Session: Criticality in Bilingual Language Policies and Practices in Schools and Society

Abstract

Linguistic and cultural diversity has become a defining feature of classrooms today. A growing body of research examines how a multilingual paradigm can reshape teaching and learning (Helot et al., 2008). By adopting a linguistically expansive multilingual approach to teaching and learning, teacher makes explicit how all students’ can draw on their dynamic bilingualism (Garcia & Li Wei, 2014), leveraging the fluid language practices of bilinguals.
This year-long case study explores how Diversitas, a public elementary school in Wisconsin, support students’ multilingual communicative repertoires by engaging with a multilingual approach.

Author

• Jungwon Hyun, University of Wisconsin - Madison