Presentation Title:
Exploring Literacy Epistemology: Exemplifying Praxis Through Cross-Cultural Literacy Practices Supporting Multilingual Learners’ Language and Learning

Presentation Options: Onsite

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.

Abstract:

The US is regarded as a land of immigrants and is increasingly more culturally and linguistically diverse resulting in educational challenges and opportunities that catapult learners as global scholars. There exists critical need for culturally responsive and empowering pedagogical practices in education that reflect cultural awareness and sensitivity. Culture positively affects literacy and forms one‘s identity. Sound pedagogical practices grounded in the Sociocultural Literacy Theory draw on the positive impact that participation in social interactions around culturally organized activities have to drive the academic and linguistic development and success of diverse bi/multilingual learners. A focus is determining how our literacy practices unfold and the roles that participation in social interactions and culturally organized activities have on learning. Critically important as we promote multilingualism, multiliteracy and multiculturalism. Elevating our cultural repository and as a medium for communication highlighting the power for bi/multilingual learners to learn across cultures about literacy, learning and language through culturally empowering teaching and learning frameworks. There are many parallels that exist across Mexican American and Native Hawaiian cultures and each bring strong cultural components such as language that is ethnically tied to culture and heritage and harness academic and linguistic capital that can be channeled into literacy development both in and out of formal school spaces. Emphasis is on the language and literacy skills that Mexican American and Native Hawaiian bi/multilingual learners contribute to their learning experiences from both their educational experiences and their literacies of life and how these resources are used to mediate their learning. 

Presentation Types: Academic-50m

Target Audience: All

Primary Presenter's Telephone: (956)655-4062

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