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Ecologies of multilingual writing in world language classrooms<\/a><\/strong>
Organized by Bruna Sommer-Farias<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ecologies of multilingual writing: An interactive colloquium<\/a><\/strong>
Organized by Dwight Atkinson, Jeroen Gevers, and Elena Taylor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Click on the titles above to see the abstracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Ecologies of multilingual writing in world language classrooms<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ecologies of multilingual writing is a productive lens to examine writing produced in world language instruction contexts in the United States. Multilingual writing is here understood as writing produced by learners seeking to expand their repertoire by learning a language other than English. In this sense, understanding world language instruction as ecology means to recognize that these contexts share similar challenges as they co-exist in an English-dominant environment while contending with specificities of their own linguistic and cultural ecosystems that impact the teaching of writing. For instance, learners enrolled in a world language are often more interested in developing speaking than writing skills, while world language teachers rarely have special training in teaching writing. This colloquium aims to tease apart what types of connections play a role in developing writing knowledge and skills in world languages to then analyze the relationality between language systems and cultures enacted by learners and teachers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, Bruna Sommer-Farias will examine how recognizing relationality of genre dimensions across languages can contribute to genre knowledge development of world language teachers and learners. The results include responses to genre awareness tasks for L2 Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese. Then, Francis Troyan will examine how an L2 French teacher sustained dialogic interactions following an SFL-informed genre-based approach using speaking-to-write\/writing-to-speak activities. The results illustrate the relationality between speaking and writing and the connectedness to each person in the classroom (student-student and teacher-student) when negotiating meaning and positively motivating learners in a world language. In the sequence, Miriam Akoto will illustrate the connection between types of knowledge students make when working in collaborative writing tasks. Her work report on specific types of genre-related content L2 French learners use during group collaborative work and for what reasons they make those choices. Finally, Matt Coss will discuss the relationality between modality and writing knowledge (i.e., handwriting versus keyboarding) in the context of L2 (Chinese) writing assessments. The results emphasize the importance of understanding the relationality between modality and writing knowledge for an accurate measurement of writing knowledge and a focus on instruction that prioritizes real-world communicative goals. The colloquium concludes with Melinda Reichelt responding to the presentations and pinpointing the potential of elements mentioned by the speakers to better understand the context of writing in languages other than English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizer<\/strong>
Bruna Sommer-Farias, Michigan State University, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Presenters<\/strong>
Bruna Sommer-Farias, Michigan State University, USA
Francis Troyan, Ohio State University, USA
Miriam Akoto, Sam Houston State University, USA
Matt Coss, Michigan State University, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussant<\/strong>
Melinda Reichelt, University of Toledo, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ecologies of multilingual writing: An interactive colloquium<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This colloquium is devoted to exploring the concept of ecology in second language writing. Our purpose is to examine the ecology concept from multiple perspectives and to suggest orientations for the field. Four scholars will engage in informal dialogic interaction on the topic, followed by two discussants. \u00a0

The ecology concept focuses on where and how we live, who and what we live with, what (values) we live for and by, and how these are interconnected. From this perspective, it is odd that dominant ideologies of science insist that to gain true knowledge we must 1) detach what we study from the rest of the world–remove it from its complex sustaining context; and 2) detach ourselves as researchers from our feeling, valuing, everyday selves, as if emotionless,\u00a0disembodied, values-neutral human beings ever existed. Ecology in this sense opposes dominant ideologies of science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another sense, however, ecology welcomes all approaches to studying and understanding human action. Ecology’s first principle is “everything is connected to everything else” (Commoner, 1971, p. 29); therefore the more perspectives the better, as long as these perspectives can be treated relationally. This approach calls for diversity, patient listening and discussion, synergizing, and interdisciplinarity.

Ecology has two immediate implications for multilingual writing. First,\u00a0it is increasingly recognized that\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0forms of communication occur not in vacuums, but in complex multimodal\/multisensory\/sociomaterial\/political\/multilingual contexts\/environments (Canagarajah, 2018). If so, then we must study writing as environmentally situated. This environmental\u00a0turn has been\u00a0fairly\u00a0well-represented in one of our “parent disciplines” (Silva & Leki, 2004)\u2014composition studies\u2014but less so in the other\u2014applied linguistics.\u00a0In the latter,\u00a0writing has often been treated as a thing in itself, e.g., a grammatical entity or cognitive product.\u00a0

Second, if all writing is ecological, and our fragile human ecology is immediately\u00a0threatened, then multilingual writing must engage with our ecological crisis. Other fields have begun to do so, e.g., TESOL (Goulah & Katunich, 2020) and composition studies (Roux, 2023). Shouldn’t\u00a0we join them? Writing is a powerful tool for revolutionary change; let us use it, study it, and teach it to save our lives.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizers and Panelists<\/strong>
Dwight Atkinson, University of Arizona, USA
Jeroen Gevers, UCLA, USA
Elena Taylor, Utah State University, USA
Anuj Gupta, University of Arizona, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Discussants<\/strong>
Hadi Banat, University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA
Fabiola Ehlers-Zavala, Colorado State University, USA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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