ELLSA 2025

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.

Research is essential to design, evaluate, and improve learning, and connecting practical wisdom with systematic tools of inquiry closes the gap between research and practice. Schools want to leverage the latest innovations, accreditation standards often name action research as a school improvement strategy, and school leaders value opportunities to engage with and in educational research. The MLRC is a university-based, research-practice partnership committed to learning about and improving outcomes for multilingual students. This session will feature insights from action research projects designed and implemented at international schools.