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Validating Language Practices in the Multilingual Classroom

Multilingual students come to the classroom with unique cultural experiences and language practices. When recognized and built into instruction, learners see that their cultural and linguistic uniqueness is valued, relevant, and crucial to how and what they learn.

Affirming Bilingual and Multilingual Learners with Translanguaging Literature

Affirming Bilingual and Multilingual Learners with Translanguaging Literature Copy

Presented by Carla España, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education and Puerto Rican/Latinx and Latin American Studies, Department of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies, Brooklyn College, City University of New York; and Luz Yadira Herrera, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education, School of Education at California State University, Channel Islands
Moderated by David Bowles, Author and Teacher, University of Texas Rio Grande Valley