Chasing Encounters

An insightful thinker, an incredible teacher and respected researcher, Wales Wong shares her interest in storytelling and translanguaging as important aspects of meaning-making in our daily lives. From California to Hong Kong and now Toronto she brings tons of diverse experiences while using her Cantonese and English languages both academically and personally. We problematize the assumptions people make when it comes to race and language whether you are in the USA or elsewhere, there are labels that still stigmatize peoples and sometimes marginalize them. We question how we value other people’s linguistic repertoires and how they use them at different times for the purposes of communication. Therefore, it is important to welcome and celebrate linguistic diversity and support students to amplify their voices by using written storytelling as a device to describe their cultural traditions and connect with the larger community. Suggested citation of this podcast (APA): Ortega, Y. (Producer). (2019, March 26).