Polanco Pino, Y. I., & Suarez, L. F., & Perez, G., & Nuñez Javeir, K. M., & Mabour, L. C., & Pierre, T., & Jimenez, M. (2025, June), Reframing Engineering in Multilingual and Multidialectal Contexts: The Role of Instructor Identity and Language in Dominican-Haitian Learning Communities (Work in-Progress)  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada . https://peer.asee.org/57118

\bibitem{asee_peer_57118}
  Polanco Pino, Y. I., \& Suarez, L. F., \& Perez, G., \& Nuñez Javeir, K. M., \& Mabour, L. C., \& Pierre, T., \& Jimenez, M. (2025, June), \emph{Reframing Engineering in Multilingual and Multidialectal Contexts: The Role of Instructor Identity and Language in Dominican-Haitian Learning Communities (Work in-Progress)}
  Paper presented at 2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada .
  https://peer.asee.org/57118

Ymbar Isaias Polanco Pino, Luis Federico Suarez, Greses Perez P.E., Koral Melissa Nuñez Javeir, L. Clara Mabour, Taisha Pierre, and Mia Jimenez.  "Reframing Engineering in Multilingual and Multidialectal Contexts: The Role of Instructor Identity and Language in Dominican-Haitian Learning Communities (Work in-Progress)".  2025 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2025.  https://peer.asee.org/57118 Internet.  20 Aug, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_57118}
  Ymbar Isaias Polanco Pino, Luis Federico Suarez, Greses Perez P.E., Koral Melissa Nuñez Javeir, L. Clara Mabour, Taisha Pierre, and Mia Jimenez.
  "Reframing Engineering in Multilingual and Multidialectal Contexts: The Role of Instructor Identity and Language in Dominican-Haitian Learning Communities (Work in-Progress)".
  \emph{2025 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Montreal, Quebec, Canada , 2025, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2025.
  https://peer.asee.org/57118 Internet.  20 Aug, 2025

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title = "Reframing Engineering in Multilingual and Multidialectal Contexts: The Role of Instructor Identity and Language in Dominican-Haitian Learning Communities (Work in-Progress)"
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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - This Work-in-Progress paper examines how engineering thinking is reimagined in multilingual and multidialectal settings through a STEM summer program in two Dominican-Haitian communities in the Dominican Republic. Designed and implemented by a multilingual and multicultural team, the program sought to center the experiences, practices, and knowledge of communities while introducing foundational engineering concepts. Drawing on culturally sustaining pedagogy and positionality theory, this study analyzes how the identities of instructors shaped lesson design and delivery, and how students’ engagement with engineering was interpreted through a multimodal and multilingual lens. Data sources included instructor journals, field notes, and community conversations. The thematic analysis highlights (1) the influence of instructors’ own definitions of engineering on classroom interactions; (2) the role of heritage language use in building trust; and (3) students' creative engagement with materials, which surfaced localized forms of engineering not always recognized in traditional curricula. This WIP illustrates the role instructors 'identities play in affirming the ways of knowing and doing of students in their communities while expanding notions of who engineers are and how they think. The paper offers early insights for designing equity-driven, linguistically inclusive, and culturally responsive engineering learning experiences in linguistically minoritized communities. 
AU  - Ymbar Isaias Polanco Pino
AU  - Luis Federico Suarez
AU  - Greses Perez P.E.
AU  - Koral Melissa Nuñez Javeir
AU  - L. Clara Mabour
AU  - Taisha Pierre
AU  - Mia Jimenez
CY  - Montreal, Quebec, Canada 
DA  - 2025/06/22
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Reframing Engineering in Multilingual and Multidialectal Contexts: The Role of Instructor Identity and Language in Dominican-Haitian Learning Communities (Work in-Progress)
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