for Educators
Who are art & design multilingual students?
Anyone who speaks multiple languages is multilingual. In the context of North American higher education in art & design, the term multilingual student refers to students who speak languages other than English as mother tongues. Programs and classes for multilingual students, and often the student body itself, are variously referred to as English as a Second Language (ESL), English Language (EL), English Language Learning/Learners (ELL), and English as an Additional Language (EAL), among other designations. Multilingual students may be called international students; however the two terms are not necessarily synonymous. Some may have spent extensive time in a country where English is a primary language while others have not, but they have all chosen to pursue art & design education in English-language contexts. At North American institutions of higher education, multilingual students are usually expected to have at least an intermediate level of English proficiency for undergraduate programs and an advanced level English proficiency for graduate programs; however, expectations associated with these proficiency levels can vary widely.
Who are you?
You teach in art & design.
Your classes are not explicitly designed for multilingual students, but you have multilingual students in your classes.
You run a department or a program.
You oversee faculty and/or stuff who interact with multilingual students in curricular or co-curricular contexts.
You are a TESOL person at an art & design school.
You do EAP/ESP instruction, or you provide English language support services in a Learning Resource Center or Writing Center, or you run the assessment & placement, or you administrate the ESL/EL/ELL/EAL/etc. program, or you do most, if not all, of the above!
You have a vested interested in multilingual students and art & design education for some other reason.
What I offer
I provide consultation services to individuals, programs, and institutions in the areas below.
Needs Assessment
Review of the current multilingual landscape of a program, department, or institution to identify existing resources and gaps and propose future developments
Program Development
Creation of a new program for multilingual students or expansion of an existing program at the undergraduate or graduate level
Curriculum Design
Creation of new studio or seminar curriculum for courses that integrate art & design with English language or for language courses that support separate art & design studio or seminar courses
Player’s Choice
Something else you’re looking for about multilingual student art & design education that’s not explicitly named here
Workshops for Students
North American art & design culture and expectations
critiques: how they work and how to work them
reading and vocabulary development in English
time management in an additional language
talking and writing about your work
writing from sources / plagiarism / conducting research
Trainings for Educators
language learning and art & design meaning-making
monolingual and multilingual ideologies
linguistic imperialism / linguistic discrimination / language justice
the racialization of creative practice
instructional delivery
critique instruction
writing form sources / plagiarism
tutoring multilingual students in the Writing Center / Learning Resource Center
Contact me to discuss, and check out my materials here.