Languaging and Gendering:

Toward social, relational, and gender-just language education

Abstract: Language, gender, and education are social and relational acts. They are things that we do and do together. As we learn to language differently in educational contexts, we are invited to (re)construct our sense of who we are in the world and the ways that we enlanguage our identities through acts such as speaking, signing, reading, and writing. Despite the ways that language learning invites students to (re)imagine, (re)invent, and explore new linguistic and cultural identities, there is often limited attention to trans knowledges and linguistic practices in the curriculum, textbooks, research, and pedagogy of language classrooms. This erasure ensmalls the field of language education and undermines its liberatory potential. In this session we will explore what it means to re-think the core of what teaching and learning to language is with trans knowledges and linguacultures in mind, inviting reflection on possibilities for remaking, reimagining, and reinventing our language classrooms, materials, and pedagogical approaches to resist normativities. Together, we will consider how this ongoing process of queer and trans remaking, reimagining, and reinventing can help us to better serve all students, particularly in terms of increasing classroom inclusiveness, fostering tolerance of ambiguity, and the development of linguistic, symbolic, and intercultural competencies.

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