Real Learning in a Virtual Space
At WAESOL, we want to encourage you in your continued efforts to support your students and develop as teaching professionals. To this end, we were honored to launch WAESOL Online in April 2020, attracting a great many participants. We continue this new tradition now.
Net proceeds of WAESOL Online go toward supporting WAESOL Grants, Awards, and Conference Scholarships. WAESOL is a registered WA non profit/charity and an IRS 501(c)3 .
WAESOL Online is continuing in 2026-27.
Pricing: Each 2-hour training is only $15 for WAESOL members, $25 for non-members. Be sure to become a WAESOL member prior to registering to ensure member pricing. All sessions qualify for WA State clock hours (included with registration).
If you are interested in providing a two-hour online training, please contact joan@waesol.org .
Wednesday, October 28, 2026
Who Gets to Speak? Designing More Equitable Participation in Multilingual Classrooms
with Juliana Ferreira and Ana Paula Barreto
- Date: October 28, 2026
- Time: 4:30pm – 6:30pm Pacific Time
- Live Online
This interactive workshop explores how classroom participation is shaped not only by students’ linguistic proficiency or confidence, but also by the ways teachers structure opportunities to speak, listen, collaborate, and demonstrate knowledge. Drawing on research in multilingual education, classroom discourse, and language ideologies, participants will examine how everyday practices such as whole-class discussion, questioning, group work, and peer review can either reproduce or redistribute opportunities for participation and recognition.
Through discussion, reflection, and practical activities, participants will consider how assumptions about “good English,” fluency, and appropriate classroom participation influence multilingual learners’ experiences. The workshop will introduce strategies for designing more inclusive participation structures that allow multilingual learners to contribute meaningfully and exercise greater agency in classroom interaction. Participants will leave with concrete approaches they can adapt to their own teaching contexts.
Objectives:
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify how classroom participation structures can create unequal opportunities for multilingual learners to contribute, be heard, and demonstrate knowledge.
- Examine how assumptions about “good English,” fluency, and participation can shape teachers’ expectations of multilingual learners.
- Analyze common classroom participation practices through an equity-oriented lens.
- Apply practical strategies for structuring discussions, collaborative activities, and peer review to increase meaningful participation among multilingual learners.
- Develop or revise a classroom activity that creates more equitable opportunities for multilingual students to contribute using their full linguistic and communicative repertoires.
Presenters:
Juliana Ferreira and Ana Paula Barreto are both graduate students at the University of Washington in Seattle. Each is pursuing a Master’s in Teaching English as a Second Language and are very interested in Language Pedagogy. Both from Brazil, the presenters are experienced teachers promoting the learning of Portuguese in the Seattle area.
Pricing: Each 2-hour workshop is $15 for WAESOL members, $25 for non-members. Be sure to become a WAESOL member prior to registering to ensure member pricing. All sessions qualify for WA State clock hours (included w/registration).
If you are interested in providing an on-line training through WAESOL Online, please contact joan@waesol.org with your ideas for a 2-hour online training.