October 12, 2022
The goal of this webinar was to explore ways in which linguistic bias, standard language ideologies and monolingual assumptions affect various aspects of higher education. One of the challenges with pursuing linguistic justice at the university level is to balance multilingual ideologies and a linguistically additive approach with the pragmatic and very real linguistic needs of multilingual students from diverse language backgrounds, be they international or domestic students who seek to master the language of the academy.
Topics addressed included supporting the transition from secondary school to higher education for linguistically diverse students in both the United States and Germany, language bias and the burdens it creates for international teaching assistants in North America, and the concepts offered by the field of Critical Language Awareness for promoting language equity and inclusion in the university classroom.
Webinar speakers:
Marguerite Lukes, Internationals Network for Public Schools; New York University
Vijay Ramjattan, University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education
Ingrid Gogolin, University of Hamburg, Intercultural and International Comparative Education
Shawna Shapiro, Middlebury College; Critical Language Awareness Collective
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