Exchanging deficit for affordance: Developing preservice teachers’ capacity to see emergent bilingual students’ resources

Authors

Aaron T. Wilson, The University of Texas Rio Grande ValleyFollow
Hyung Won Kim, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
M. Alejandra Sorto

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

2018

Abstract

We present a Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) research project aimed at helping pre-service teachers to grasp the importance of their emergent bilingual students' bilingualism and cultural backgrounds as resources to serve them in apprehending mathematics instruction and explaining their mathematics to others.

Comments

Copyright the Authors.

Recommended Citation

Wilson, Aaron T., Hyung Won Kim, and M. Alejandra Sorto. 2018. “Exchanging Deficit for Affordance: Developing Preservice Teachers’ Capacity to See Emergent Bilingual Students’ Resources.” In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the North American Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA), edited by T. E. Hodges, G. J. Roy, and A. M. Tyminski, 811–14. Greenville, SC: University of South Carolina & Clemson University. https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/mss_fac/629.

First Page

811

Last Page

814

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the North American Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME-NA)