Humanization, Cariño, and Multimodal Composition: Undocumented Immigrant Students and a Culturally Sustaining Bilingual Writer's Workshop

Culturally Sustaining and Translingual Approaches to Teaching Bi/Multilingual Writers

“…In this section, we review research about teachers in monolingual settings adapting curriculum and practices to center bilingual students' realities, as well as research in bilingual classrooms. While research shows the potential of a writer's workshop approach in English medium classrooms (Kissel & Miller, 2015;Laman, 2013), little research explores the instructional strategies and writing processes of multilingual students and teachers engaging in a writer's workshop in more than one language (Harvey-Torres & Valdez, 2021). We explore the writer's workshop as pedagogy with bilingual students specifically because it places students' experiences, interests, and knowledge at the center of writing instruction (Calkins, 1994;Graves, 1983Graves, /2003.…”