Presentation Strand

Literacy (Biliteracy and Multiliteracy)

Presentation Delivery Language

English

Description

This session will center on critical literacy epistemology to harness the power of cross-cultural literacy practices that promote multilingualism, multiliteracy and multiculturalism. Building cultural repository for bi/multilingual learners to mediate their language and literacy assets in formal and community-based spaces. Learning across cultures about literacy, learning and language through ethnically sustaining teaching and learning praxis grounded in Funds of Knowledge (FoK). We will explore cultural literacy practices that advocate social justice embodying language, customs and traditions cross-culturally and drawing on the parallels that are used to mediate learning to support bi/multilingual learners’ language and learning.