Multilingual Pedagogy Committee (MPC)
The Multilingual Pedagogy Committee (MPC) promotes pedagogical approaches to multilingualism in writing and composition studies and supports students and faculty across the Writing and Communication Program (WCP) and Georgia Tech. The committee fosters teaching and research that recognize linguistic diversity as a rhetorical and intellectual resource.
MPC values non‑Western, postcolonial, and global perspectives on language, writing, and knowledge‑making. We approach multilingualism as central to equitable pedagogy, ethical communication, and curricular innovation rather than as a deficit to be managed.
This site serves as a shared repository for pedagogical resources, teaching reflections, and scholarly conversations on global and multilingual writing in communication, learning, media, and literature.
History and Focus
Formerly known as the World Englishes Committee, the group adopted the name Multilingual Pedagogy Committee to emphasize its primary focus on teaching practices and pedagogical frameworks. While scholarship on World Englishes remains foundational, the new name reflects a broader engagement with multilingual classrooms, instructional design, and assessment.
This shift recognizes the realities of contemporary writing instruction, where students draw on multiple languages, dialects, and modalities, and where pedagogy must respond thoughtfully to linguistic diversity. For an overview of World Englishes, read more here.
Events and Publications
Annual Symposium
Each year, MPC hosts a symposium highlighting teaching activities and course designs focused on multilingual pedagogy within WCP. The event provides a forum for sharing practices, challenges, and teaching innovations.
Ramble
MPC supports Ramble, a publication featuring creative work and pedagogical experiments by WCP faculty. The publication makes space for reflective, exploratory, and multimodal writing connected to teaching and language practices.
–Moinak Choudhury