ERIC Number: ED671865
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 5
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Multilingual Educators: Identity and Literacy
Eli Garza; Gilberto Barrios
International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, Paper presented at the International Conference on Social and Education Sciences (IConSES) (Chicago, IL, Oct 17-20, 2024)
This paper examines the ways in which multilingual educators view the development of their own professional identity as teachers of reading and literacy. Teachers who themselves possess biliteracy knowledge and skills are well-positioned to leverage their own understandings of language and literacy to engage their students' development in making meaning and effective expression. This study explored the extent to which teacher development of their identity as literacy educators incorporates their own linguistic diversity. The study focused on the ways practicing and preservice multilingual teachers view the influence of their biliteracy knowledge and skills on their role as teachers of English literacy, for all students both monolingual & multilingual. The study found that despite their potential advantage, multilingual educators frequently experience barriers that hinder them from recognizing the value of their biliteracy knowledge and skills to their role teaching English reading. This study found that development of the multilingual teacher's identity includes addressing these challenges. In addition, it found that embracing one's own linguistic diversity promotes educators' ability to leverage it as a professional, particularly within the context of literacy education. [For the full proceedings, see ED671809.]
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingualism, Literacy, Barriers, Literacy Education, Teaching Methods, Teacher Role, Faculty Development, Teacher Attitudes, Elementary Secondary Education, English Instruction, English Learners, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Characteristics, Reading Attitudes, Kindergarten, Knowledge Base for Teaching
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education
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Language: English
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