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Decolonializing the Writing Class: Enabling Multiple Literacies for Intercultural Awareness

Presenter: Charissa Che Abstract: What informs the ways in which we receive unfamiliar and perhaps conflicting cultural viewpoints? Consequently, what steps can be taken to develop awareness and empathy across differences? This interactive workshop will discuss the principles of Intercultural Communicative Competence (Byram, 2020; Kramsch, 2011) and its particular importance when it comes to teaching culturally and linguistically diverse students. I will model a classroom activity in which students create a discourse community “map” that challenges dominant discourses (Van Dijk, 2006; Gee, 2011). In composing maps of their own, participants will consider how they might enact this activity in their own teaching and evaluation of student writing. This workshop demonstrates through theory and praxis that when we move from having an open Attitude, to Critical Cultural Awareness, of an unfamiliar cultural practice, literacy, and tradition, we create the conditions for an antiracist, decolonialized writing ecology.