Conversation Currents: The Continua of Biliteracy

This issue’s theme of biliteracy invites readers to consider the possibilities when we acknowledge and build on students’ existing language and literacy abilities. Nancy H. Hornberger, professor and Chair of Educational Linguistics at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, and Iliana Reyes, research scientist at CINVESTAV, Mexico City, and associated faculty in language, reading, and culture at the University of Arizona, discuss the continuum of biliteracy and how teachers have used it to better acknowledge student language as a resource.