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Public and Private Writing Identities of Multilingual High School Students
- Author(s):
- Jodi Berry (see profile)
- Date:
- 2023
- Group(s):
- 2023 MLA Convention
- Subject(s):
- International education, Multilingualism, English language--Study and teaching (Secondary)
- Item Type:
- Conference paper
- Conf. Title:
- 2023 MLA Convention
- Conf. Org.:
- Modern Language Association
- Conf. Loc.:
- San Francisco
- Conf. Date:
- January 5-8 2022
- Tag(s):
- translanguaging, writing instruction, multilingual identities, transnational youth, secondary english, international education
- Permanent URL:
- https://doi.org/10.17613/pbxh-nb93
- Abstract:
- This talk examines how multilingual identities can be made public, the mechanisms that stifle them private, and engaging with multiple languages in the writing classroom. I will discuss how English as the lingua franca at international schools guarantees students finish high school equipped with the cultural capital to gain a competitive advantage in post-secondary education and future employment, but also how language ideologies can suppress students’ home languages and diminish the linguistic diversity at international schools. More specifically, I will focus on the literary explorations in a high school English class and the process of writing linguistic autobiographies to “reconstruct policies ground up” (Canagarajah 587).
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- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 months ago
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