Leveraging Multilingualism in Your Classroom—Q&A

SFU Centre for Educational Excellence

The session offers a low-pressure space to explore how multilingualism can support learning, participation, and equity across disciplines.

Curious about how to leverage multilingualism as an asset in your teaching but not sure where to start? Join this online drop-in session hosted by CEE's English as an Additional Language consultants. Instructors are invited to bring questions, challenges, or ideas related to multilingual students, classroom practices, assesment, and course design. Come for a few minutes or stay longer. The session offers a low-pressure space to explore how multilingualism can support learning, participation, and equity across disciplines. This session is offered as part of Multilingual SFU Week. Full details here :<a href="https://www.sfu.ca/wll/mlw.html" title="https://www.sfu.ca/wll/mlw.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">SFU Multilingual Week - Department of World Languages and Literatures - Simon Fraser University</a> Facilitated by:<a href="https://www.sfu.ca/cee/about-us/people/profiles/amandawallace.html" title="https://www.sfu.ca/cee/about-us/people/profiles/amandawallace.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Amanda Wallace</a>, EAL Consultant (ajw23@sfu.ca)Amanda Wallace is an English as an additional language consultant at SFU’s Centre for Educational Excellence. Her work focuses on supporting faculty and instructors in designing courses, assessments, and learning environments that are linguistically responsive, accessible, and inclusive of multilingual learners. She works across disciplines to help instructors examine how language shapes teaching and learning and to identify practical ways multlingualism can be leveraged as a pedagogical asset. A central aim of her work is to integrate lingustic responsiveness into everyday teaching practice in ways that are feasible, relevant, and sustainable.Amanda holds a PhD in Education. Her research examines multilingualism, internationalization in higher education, and interdisciplinary collaboration between applied linguists and content faculty, with particular attention to how instructors enact agency in lingustically diverse teaching contexts. <a href="https://www.sfu.ca/cee/about-us/people/profiles/eilidhsingh.html" title="https://www.sfu.ca/cee/about-us/people/profiles/eilidhsingh.html" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Eilidh Singh</a>, EAL Consultant (eilidhs@sfu.ca)Eilidh Singh is an EAL Consultant in the Inclusive Teaching Team at SFU's Centre for Educational Excellence, working with a flexible, evidence-based lens to facilitate EAL support for all faculty and TAs. She has supported multilingual and mono-/multi-lingual instructors and students over the last few decades in a variety of roles, including as an instructor, teacher-trainer, program management and administration, and consultant, she has an ongoing interest in how multilingual learners can best be supported to thrive in L1 content environments.At SFU her work includes creating and delivering bespoke and general workshops, collaborating with the team on an instructor series on linguistically responsive pedagogy, offering consultations, developing materials, and working with campus partners on various projects.

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