MLLC Speaker Series

Profession (Un)Learning: Developing a Critical Translanguaging Stance & Practice with Teachers
of Multilingual Learners

Presented by Dr. Kate Seltzer

This talk will explore what it means to embrace a critical translanguaging approach to challenge deficit-oriented beliefs and inequalities in multilingual education. Dr. Seltzer will share examples and offer guidance for educators to value students’ full linguistic abilities.

Dr. Kate Seltzer is an Associate Professor of Bilingual and ESL Education at Rowan University. Her research focuses on how schools and teachers can build on students’ rich language practices while also disrupting their own ideologies about these students. She is co-author of the book, The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning as well as book chapters and articles in journals such as Journal of Literacy Research, Research in the Teaching of English, and TESOL Quarterly.

Sponsored by Missouri Language and Literacies Center

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