ABSTRACT
Language education can serve to animate profound experiences of mobility and mobilization. This chapter explores a distinctive approach to language education intended to facilitate the formation of translingual transformative professionals. Our approach affirms languaging capabilities above language competencies, focuses on community development beyond individual advancement, and cultivates social capital in addition to individual accomplishment. Readers of this chapter will gain an appreciation of the capabilities approach to language education, an understanding of language teaching and learning within a framework of restorative justice, and an appreciation of the role of Latinx professionals in nourishing social capital in the Latino community.
