B-MEIS Newsletter - June 2021 (Plain Text Version)

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In this issue:
LEADERSHIP UPDATES
•  LETTER FROM THE CHAIR
•  MULTILINGUAL LEARNER LESSON PLAN DESIGN: LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
ARTICLES
•  HELLO MY NAME IS... ELEVATING STUDENT IDENTITY THROUGH RESEARCH AND REFLECTION ON NAMES
•  SEEING MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS' REFLECTIONS EN EL ESPEJO
•  TEACHING PINYIN TO YOUNG ENGLISH-MANDARIN BILINGUAL LEARNERS IN DUAL IMMERSION PROGRAMS
•  INCREDIBLE INDIA: INTEGRATING CULTURE AND CRITICAL THINKING IN CLASSROOMS WITH MULTILINGUAL LEARNERS
ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY
•  Bi/MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION INTEREST SECTION LEADERSHIP TEAM

LEADERSHIP UPDATES

LETTER FROM THE CHAIR

Clara Vaz Bauler, Adelphi University, Garden City, NY, USA

Dear TESOL Bi-Multilingual Education Interest Section community and all readers,

We are so excited to welcome you into the 2021-2022 chapter of our special interest group. Our goal is to continue to focus our efforts on creating opportunities for dialogue and action for multilingual students around the world.

This past year, in particular, has led to so much change. Under the leadership of Ching-Ching Lin, we revised our mission statement and hosted events to support our continued growth. In 2021-2022, we would like to build on this important work to keep on fighting for centering multilingualism in TESOL. We need to ensure that teachers and students are supported to tap into their full linguistic, cultural and racial experiences and resources when learning English in international, local, glocalized and virtual contexts.

So far, we successfully hosted the webinar "World Englishes: Diversity, Contexts and Cultures" led by Dr. Kirti Kapur on April 21, 2021 with a follow-up, all-day Twitter chat on April 22, 2021.

We have planned many more opportunities to continue the dialogue! We need to talk with each other. We need to listen. We need to be challenged. We need to speak up.

Let’s do it! We will never stop learning.

Clara Vaz Bauler,
TESOL B-MEIS Chair