When: September 27, 2016, 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Where: Charlotte Frank Classroom (1203 HE)

Presenter(s): Paul McPherron (English), Trudy Smoke (English), Cindy Wishengrad (English), Jack Kenigsberg (English), Kirsten J Grant (Chemistry), Philip Ewell (Music), John Pell (Hunter College Libraries)

Facilitator: Paul McPherron (English)

Hunter has some of the most ethnically, culturally, and linguistically diverse students in the country if not the world, but too often multilingual students who are still learning English are viewed as deficient or lacking the ability to succeed in universities. In this presentation, faculty members from various disciplines discuss particular challenges these students face in our classrooms and ways faculty can addresses these needs. Crucially, presenters will also offer examples for how they have drawn on the linguistic and cultural backgrounds of their students in their teaching, in this way moving beyond a deficient view of English learners in our classrooms toward a multilingual approach to university pedagogy.