Education designed for bilingual minds
The United States is a multilingual country with a monolingual education system. Millions of students’ linguistic identities have been suppressed in the name of assimilation. The programs that actually work are underfunded, understaffed, and built on frameworks imported from monolingual research traditions.
Multilingual learners deserve better. Not curriculum adapted from English. Not frameworks retrofitted for bilingual classrooms. Education built from the ground up for how bilingual minds actually work.
Where translanguaging meets practice
NewLingual curates and distributes content that helps educators implement translanguaging pedagogy and biliteracy practices grounded in how multilingual people actually learn and use language.
Our content is built on original theoretical frameworks designed specifically for multilingual learners and the educators who serve them. Not imported from monolingual research traditions. Built from the ground up for bilingual minds.
Two dimensions of the same mission
NewLingual builds multilingual education through curriculum and university programs. We advance the field through original research. Both are necessary. Both reinforce each other.
Curriculum, a university certificate, and a book that equip educators to honor students’ full linguistic repertoires
A five-course certificate program, a book on translanguaging pedagogy, and content designed for bilingual minds, not adapted from monolingual traditions.
See projectsBuilding the evidence base that multilingual learners deserve
Original research in biliteracy development, translanguaging pedagogy, and multilingual education. The science should reflect the learners.
See projectsNewLingual is a program of the Unbound Scholars Foundation, an academic freedom nonprofit committed to protecting education from political, religious, and corporate interference.