Implications of Multilingual Students' Stories for Promoting Linguistic Justice in Higher Education: Insights from Oral History Interviews

Publication Date

2024

Document Type

Book Chapter

Organizational Units

University Writing Program

Keywords

Multilingualism, Oral history, International students

Abstract

This chapter explores multilingual students' experiences and addresses ways that institutions of higher learning can best celebrate and support multilingual learners. Challenging the long-standing deficit model, many researchers have used raciolinguistic and translingual concepts to reframe multilingualism as an asset. The author draws on these frameworks in contextualizing her oral history research collecting multilingual students' stories. This year-long study conducted in 2022-23 was funded by an internal grant at a private U.S. university in the Rocky Mountain region. Eleven multilingual students with diverse native languages and countries of origin were interviewed about their perceptions of their native languages as heritage languages, their academic experiences, and other aspects of their lived experiences. After documenting and analyzing these stories, the author offers suggestions for what institutions of higher learning can do to best institute linguistic justice on their increasingly multilingual campuses.

Copyright Date

2024

Copyright Statement / License for Reuse

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IGI Global Scientific Publishing

Provenance

Received from author

Language

English (eng)

Extent

25 pgs

Publication Statement

Copyright is held by IGI Global Scientific Publishing. User is responsible for all copyright compliance. This book chapter was originally published as:

Kinyon, K. (2024). Implications of multilingual students' stories for promoting linguistic justice in higher education: Insights from oral history interviews. In X. Huo & C. Smith (Eds.), Interrogating Race and Racism in Postsecondary Language Classrooms, pp. 265-289. IGI Global Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-9029-7.ch012

ISBN

9781668490297, 1668490293, 9781668490303, 9781668490334

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