For Graduate Students: Language Lounge: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Language Classrooms (Part 2)

We embrace the diverse identities our students bring to the classroom. How then do we work with our students, their genuine motivation to learn a new language, and their enthusiasm to dive into the cultural products enveloped in that language, when their identities are not represented in our textbooks and class materials? How do we help students navigate a new culture, prepare them for studying abroad, or even prepare them to represent their own identities, if and when the second language lacks the linguistic choices available to them in English.

Over the course of this two-part conversation for graduate students, we will generate strategies and explore resources that we can use to enhance our students’ experience in the course.

If you have not done so already, register for Part 1 here: https://events.columbia.edu/go/Language_Lounge_Part_1