RUME 25
2023
Omaha, Nebraska
Resources for Participation: Examining Multilingual Students’ Perspectives on What it Means to Participate in Active Learning
Page: 502
More college mathematics classrooms are adopting active learning practices like collaborative learning. Participation in these practices typically requires students to engage in verbal communication and interpersonal interactions, which are mediated by language. Despite this, the experiences of multilingual students have often been overlooked in the literature on active learning. Through analyzing interviews with 26 multilingual students, this study explores what participation in active learning meant to these students. It also explores the resource that students perceived to be necessary in order to participate in active learning, for example, being comfortable speaking English. Finally, this study demonstrates how classroom discourses and broader social discourses about language shaped students’ perceptions about participation.