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Multiliteracies In Rural Schools: The “Revuelto Y Mezclada” Of Home And Community Literacy Practices Of Midwestern Emergent Bilingual Families, Trish Morita-Mullaney, Haiyan Li, Jennifer Renn

The Rural Educator

Multiliteracies is a paradigm for language and literacy, in which all languages and literacies are valuable, meaningful, and serve a purpose in meeting the needs of the learner within their social contexts. Multiliteracies are enacted and negotiated through different languages, technologies, and modalities and are represented in homes and communities of English Learners (ELs) or emergent bilinguals (EBs), representing their bi- or multilingual identities. Within rural communities, these family multiliteracies differ from the predominantly English-monolingual contexts found within schools, but have the potential to reshape rural educators’ conceptions of literacies. Redefining literacy holds significance in rural communities where resources, including …