Full Description
Empower multilingual learners and challenge deficit thinking now
Multilingual learners (MLs) deserve more than assimilation—they deserve equity, empowerment, and celebration of their full linguistic repertoires and identities. This groundbreaking book uncovers how deficit ideologies about language perpetuate assimilationist practices that harm MLs' heritage languages, cultural identities, and equitable opportunities for academic success. Through real-life stories and sociolinguistic analysis, author Dr. Lillian Ardell provides the tools to transform classrooms and schools into spaces that celebrate multilingualism and foster biliteracy, even in places where deficit thinking about MLs determines instructional practices and outcomes.
Rooted in research and supported by actionable strategies, this book calls on educators to evolve as advocates, inspiring them to shift their mindsets and practices to nurture bilingualism and biliteracy. Features include:
Detailed exploration of the "Monolingual Bias" and how it operates within policies, curricula, and classrooms
Insights into five "Disruptor Archetypes" to help educators identify their advocacy roles
Real-life "Disruption Stories" offering inspiration and strategies for combating the Monolingual Bias
Self-reflection tools like the "Small Brave Moments Quiz" to guide professional growth
A call to action for educators ready to challenge deficit mindsets and champion multilingualism in their schools, Disrupting the Monolingual Bias offers educators the tools they need to dismantle harmful practices and create classrooms that honor and uplift MLs.
Contents
Foreword by Margo Gottlieb
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Part 1: Build your Knowledge Base
Chapter 1: Introducing the Monolingual Bias
Lesson Plan: Take the Small Brave Movements Quiz
Chapter 2: Bilingual Education is a Social Justice Issue
Chapter 3: Sociolinguistics Matters
Lesson Plan: Sociolinguistics by Language Proficiency: Friends or Foes?
Chapter 4: Teacher Language Ideologies
Lesson Plan: The White Listening Subject
Part 2: Disruption Stories
Chapter 5: Meet Your Disruptors
Chapter 6: Success Stories
1. Chloe: From Sequestered to STEM Courses
2. Serena: Sowing the Seeds of Disruption
3. Ricardo: The Terrific Trio
4. Dafne: Disrupting the Strict Separation of Languages
5. Joey: A Fight for a Translation Line in the Budget
Lillian's Analysis to Follow
Lesson Plan: I'm the Type of Advocate Who . . . Disruptor Snapshot
Chapter 7: Bummer Stories
1. Lillian: The Paradox of Assimilation
2. Alegra: Another Newcomer Remediation Story
3. Chloe: The Orange Frog Story
4. Gloria: Aquí tu mama no sirve
5. Inéz: Terrified of Translanguaging
Lillian's Analysis to Follow
Lesson Plan: Equity in Bilingual Education Looks Like . . . Disruptor Snapshot
Chapter 8: Redemption Stories
1. Aditi: A Coup to Save the Dual Language Program
2. Allison: I Had to Let The Train Crash
3. Niyah: Disruption at a Publishing Company
4. Inéz: No More Pobrecito Syndrome
Lillian's Analysis to Follow
Lesson Plan: If I Could Change One Thing in Bilingual Education, It Would Be . . . Disruptor Snapshot
Part 3: Your Marching Orders
Chapter 9: Doable Disruptions to the Monolingual Bias
Lesson Plan: Advice for the Next Generation of Disruptors
References
Index
