Topic: Linguistic Justice: The Myth that Became a Buzzword

Overview

Abir Ward is a lecturer in the BU College of Arts & Sciences Writing Program.

Defining linguistic justice and how to promote it has become an anxiety-inducing question for many educators who are striving to make their classes more equitable and their pedagogical practices more justice oriented for multilingual students (both international and US-based). This talk aims to demystify what linguistic justice is and to provide educators with easy to implement strategies that help promote linguistically just pedagogical approaches and, ultimately, classrooms.