Bilingual First-Generation College Students Leverage Resources To Identify And Pursue Goals
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Start Date
10-2-2021 5:00 PM
End Date
10-2-2021 6:15 PM
Document Type
Presentation
Description
Drs. Brooke Hoffman and Beth Wassell coordinate Rowan University’s graduate and undergraduate ESL Certificate and Bilingual Endorsement programs. In these roles, they work closely with a number of first-generation students who are bilingual/multilingual with English as their second or additional language. Most of these students were classified as ESL students or participated in bilingual or dual-language programs as K-12 students. They are now pursuing careers in teaching, a field dominated by white, monolingual, English-speaking women, and leveraging their cultural and linguistic resources to pursue the ESL Certificate and/or Bilingual Endorsement. Drs. Hoffman and Wassell will facilitate a session in which these students share their personal narratives with a focus on the role of language in their journeys to access and persist in higher education. Prioritizing the voices of Rowan University’s own first-generation bilingual students, Drs. Hoffman and Wassell will reference relevant research.
Although research emphasizes the barriers these students face, our session will focus on the resources they possess and how they mobilize those resources to successfully access and complete college. As (future) educators themselves, these students have valuable insights for educators in PK-12 and higher education settings.
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Bilingual First-Generation College Students Leverage Resources To Identify And Pursue Goals
Drs. Brooke Hoffman and Beth Wassell coordinate Rowan University’s graduate and undergraduate ESL Certificate and Bilingual Endorsement programs. In these roles, they work closely with a number of first-generation students who are bilingual/multilingual with English as their second or additional language. Most of these students were classified as ESL students or participated in bilingual or dual-language programs as K-12 students. They are now pursuing careers in teaching, a field dominated by white, monolingual, English-speaking women, and leveraging their cultural and linguistic resources to pursue the ESL Certificate and/or Bilingual Endorsement. Drs. Hoffman and Wassell will facilitate a session in which these students share their personal narratives with a focus on the role of language in their journeys to access and persist in higher education. Prioritizing the voices of Rowan University’s own first-generation bilingual students, Drs. Hoffman and Wassell will reference relevant research.
Although research emphasizes the barriers these students face, our session will focus on the resources they possess and how they mobilize those resources to successfully access and complete college. As (future) educators themselves, these students have valuable insights for educators in PK-12 and higher education settings.