ABSTRACT

Lilia E. Bartolomé

Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Boston

LILIA I. BARTOLOMÉ, PhD GUEST SPEAKER

“Authentic multiculturalism and multilinguism in two-way bilingual classrooms: Naming and interrogating middle-class cultural and linguistics biases.”

In bilingual education, issues of multiculturalism and multilingualism, so often urgently debated in mainstream education, are erroneously perceived as being less relevant because instruction is provided in two languages by teachers who are linguistically proficient and who are often native speakers of the non-English language being taught. However, bilingual educators, similar to their English-only counterparts, typically expect their working-class students to learn to function in classrooms that reflect middle-class values and behaviors and to learn to speak the standard variety of both English and the native language. This culture and social class mismatch often results in teachers misevaluating their students and their students’ resistance to academic language instruction. During this talk, the speaker will engage the audience in imagining teacher reflective and transformative practices that will enable them to more authentically respect and build upon their students’ nonstandard language use and working-class ways of being in the world before they can meaningfully engage and integrate mainstream academic discourses.

BIOGRAPHY LILIA I. BARTOLOMÉ is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. She previously taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, San Diego State University and worked as an elementary school bilingual teacher and bilingual reading specialist before entering the academy. As a teacher educator, Bartolomé’s research interests include the preparation of effective teachers of linguistic minority students in multicultural contexts as well as working with immigrant parents around the acquisition of English and learning about US public schools in order to better assist their children. Bartolomé has published extensively. Her publications include the following books: Ideologies in Education: Unmasking the Trap of Teacher Neutrality; The Misteaching of Academic Discourses; Immigrant Voices: In Search of Pedagogical Equity (with Henry Trueba), and Dancing with Bigotry: The Poisoning of Cultural Identities (with Donaldo Macedo).

Department of Dual Language & English Learner Education | 5500 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182| phone 619.594.5155 |

Date: Tuesday, November 18th, 2014

Time: 4:00pm to 6:40pm

Location: West Commons 220

Sponsored: Dual Language and English Learner Education Department (DLE) and Project CORE