{"pk":48699,"title":"Teaching for Social Justice: Incorporating Gender-Inclusive Language in World Language Classrooms","subtitle":null,"abstract":"<p>From the perspective of two instructors of Chinese in US postsecondary education, this article provides insights into integrating social justice education in intermediate-level world language classrooms. Guided by the multiliteracies pedagogy framework for language education (Paesani et al., 2023) and the Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition’s (CARLA) “Social Justice Lesson Plan Template” (2024), we introduced new text types—including a movie trailer and dating app profiles—for a lesson on the topic of dating and scaffolded social justice content for language learning. Instructors worked with students to identify existing stereotypes of gender and sexuality. Together, we challenged the hegemonic norms represented in the textbook and created new materials for gender-inclusive language. To empower student voices, we invited them to adapt the dating stories and design a dating profile. After presenting their work in small groups, students further engaged in critical reflection by writing an individual essay on their design. This article not only demonstrates ways to utilize multimodal texts, but also illustrates strategies to engage language students critically, creatively, and collaboratively in social justice content. By sharing our theoretical framework and teaching experience, we aim to foster more pedagogical transformation that integrates social justice education into intermediate-level language learning. </p>","language":"eng","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC-ND 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\r\n\r\nNoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Social Justice Education"},{"word":"Gender-inclusive language"},{"word":"world language education"},{"word":"Multiliteracies pedagogy"},{"word":"critical pedagogies"},{"word":"Chinese language education"}],"section":"Teachers' Forum","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6tk8r7b2","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Charlize Hsiang-Ling","middle_name":"","last_name":"Wang","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Ohio State University","department":"Teaching and Learning"},{"first_name":"Hsiang-Lin","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shih","name_suffix":"","institution":"St. Olaf College","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2025-06-19T14:29:52.244000Z","date_accepted":"2025-09-22T01:07:04.563000Z","date_published":"2025-11-18T21:45:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"Galley final ","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/48699/galley/40843/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"Galley v1","type":"other","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/48699/galley/40705/download/"},{"label":"Galley final ","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/l2/article/48699/galley/40843/download/"}]}