Listen "A Discussion on Research and Scholarship in Multilingual Literacies"
Episode Synopsis
Welcome to the AERA Writing & Literacies SIG podcast! This episode's theme is on Multilingual Literacies research and scholarship. In the spirit of community, the podcast team hopes this episode works to highlight important scholarship, push the literacies field, and mentor and cite others.
Three amazing scholars participated in this discussion:
Dr. Marcela Ossa Parra - assistant professor, Queens College, NYC
Dr. Renata Love Jones - assistant professor, Georgia State University
Dr. Yalda Kaveh - assistant professor at Arizona State University
Focus Questions
1. What are the main research questions you are focused on right now, and what questions do you think are important for the field to address in studying multilingual literacies? How do your questions connect to pressing equity concerns on the ground/in the field?
2. Can you talk about the ways you center student, teacher, family, and community voices in your research? What methods would you encourage other researchers to use in order to amplify the voices of all involved?
3. What challenges have you encountered in your work, and what did you do in response? Advice for other researchers and scholars facing these challenges?
Three amazing scholars participated in this discussion:
Dr. Marcela Ossa Parra - assistant professor, Queens College, NYC
Dr. Renata Love Jones - assistant professor, Georgia State University
Dr. Yalda Kaveh - assistant professor at Arizona State University
Focus Questions
1. What are the main research questions you are focused on right now, and what questions do you think are important for the field to address in studying multilingual literacies? How do your questions connect to pressing equity concerns on the ground/in the field?
2. Can you talk about the ways you center student, teacher, family, and community voices in your research? What methods would you encourage other researchers to use in order to amplify the voices of all involved?
3. What challenges have you encountered in your work, and what did you do in response? Advice for other researchers and scholars facing these challenges?
More episodes of the podcast Writing & Literacies On Air
Intersectional Climate Justice Literacies
06/05/2025
Poetry & Literacies
16/03/2025
Multimodal Authoring
20/11/2024
Writing Practices of Award-Winning Scholars
02/08/2024
Indigenous Languages & Literacies
17/05/2024
Translanguaging across Literacies
18/03/2024
Writing Critical Feminist Pedagogy
27/12/2023
Affirming LGBTQIA+ Identities in Literacies
07/10/2023
Artificial Intelligence & Writing Episode
26/05/2023