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Humanizing Subaltern Voices, Knowledges, and Language Practices in Dual-Language Bilingual Education

Sat, April 10, 4:10 to 5:40pm EDT (4:10 to 5:40pm EDT), Division G, Division G - Section 3 Paper and Symposium Sessions

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Abstract

This symposium offers ethnographic examinations of the equity challenges in dual language bilingual education (DLBE) for minoritized emergent bilinguals. DLBE integrates English-speaking children and speakers of a partner language, to provide grade-level academic instruction in the two languages. With its promise of developing bilingualism/biliteracy, high academic achievement, and multicultural competencies, interest in DLBE has grown exponentially in the U.S. in the last few decades. The papers in this symposium offer nuanced analyses that reveal the mechanisms that reproduce insidious inequities in various DLBE programs. However, they also offer insight into unique ways in which children, parents, and teachers attempt to disrupt this marginalization and the lessons that can be learned to dismantle inequities.

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