ELLSA 2025: Full Schedule

9:30am PST

Toward Empowered Multilingual Classrooms: The Pedagogical and Transformative Purposes of Translanguaging LIMITED

Saturday March 1, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am PST

In this talk, Dr. Seltzer will draw on elements of her co-authored book, The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning, as well as her own research in English-medium classrooms, to describe both the practical, strategic purposes of translanguaging as well as its transformative potential. This talk will describe how empowered multilingual classrooms can take up translanguaging in ways that are both pedagogically sound and oriented toward criticality and transformation.

Speakers

Dr. Kate Seltzer

Associate Professor of Bilingual and ESL Education, Rowan University

Dr. Kate Seltzer is an Associate Professor of Bilingual and ESL Education at Rowan University. A former high school English teacher in New York City, Dr. Seltzer currently teaches pre- and in-service teachers of multilingual students. She is co-author of the book, The Translanguaging... Read More →

Saturday March 1, 2025 9:30am - 10:30am PST
ES Theater

Day 1 Keynote