2025 MABE Dual Language Bilingual Education Conference

Discover how the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) can transform English language learning by creating personalized, efficient, and engaging teaching experiences. This session will explore practical strategies for educators to promote the ethical and responsible use of AI tools while training students to think critically and act responsibly in the digital age. Participants will gain insights into how AI can enhance dual language education by supporting bilingualism, biliteracy, and academic achievement. Attendees will leave with actionable steps to implement AI-driven tools in culturally responsive and equitable ways, ensuring a meaningful and inclusive learning experience for all learners.

Otheguy, García and Reid (2015) have defined translanguaging as “the deployment of a speaker's full linguistic repertoire without regard for watchful adherence to the socially and politically defined boundaries of named (and usually national and state) languages” (p. 283). But what are the implications of it to language teaching and learning? In this presentation we are going to dive into the concept of translanguaging, the prejudice around it, and its importance in a bilingual education environment. We will also explain it through the lenses of sociolinguistics - so that we can understand it as a social and cultural phenomenon.