Theories and Practices for Multilingual Literature

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Multilingual Literature explores both the problems and the possibilities of including multilingual, multicultural literature in the K-12 classroom. By first considering teachers’ positionality, the course traverses the natural preferences of individual teachers, with its affordances and limitations, before considering how to implement authentic and complex multilingual, multicultural literature with critical language awareness. The ambition of this class is that through thoughtfully exploring native, black/African-American, Chicano/Latinx, Middle Eastern and Asian literature, teachers may deepen their commitment to critical consciousness with and for their students in language education. Crosslisted with: BLED 508 .