Alliance For Catholic Education

The ENL team continues April's conversation on multicultural children's literature with Notre Dame's Dr. Erin Moira Lemrow. This month's edition focuses on four themes that represent multilingual texts: language as blending in, hybrid language identities, language as culture affirmation, and language as learning from others.  Once again the discussion is inspired by María Paula Ghiso and Gerald Campano's article "Ideologies of Language and Identity in U.S. Children's Literature" (https://www.gse.upenn.edu/diversity/sites/gse.upenn.edu.diversity/files/GhisoCampano_Bookbird2.pdf) Looking for ideas to start a bilingual/bicultural library for your classroom? Download Dr. Lemrow's Top 10 Children's Bilingual/Bicultural Book List (https://gallery.mailchimp.com/5999fc41ff424155ced84575a/files/157fc1b9-4007-4585-9c52-753418a0f8cb/Lemrow_s_Top_10_List.pdf) You can find more multicultural resources for your classroom at enl.nd.edu/resources.