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Book SynopsisThis book provides strong, diverse context that supports educators in driving theory to practice when engaging with English Language Learners.
Trade ReviewThis book provides strong, diverse context that supports educators in driving theory to practice when engaging with English Language Learners. It unpacks where these students have been, where they are, but more importantly, where they can go when educators have cultivated the desperately needed knowledge, skillsets, and dispositions for advancing equity for this group of learners.
-- Jancarlos Wagner-Romero, Assistant Professor of Global and Multicultural Education, University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
As a practitioner who has worked with English Learners (ELs) for 25+ years, this collection of essays is extremely helpful for all who engage in this field to help build their knowledge, skills, and dispositions in creating educational spaces where ELs can thrive and succeed. The authors remind us that when we work with ELs we need to include strategies such as culturally sustaining pedagogy, translanguaging (equity in language), eliminating deficit biases towards minoritized students, assisting students to critically analyze their experiences, understand and know all ELs (the whole child), and how to achieve success for ELs in different content areas that are relevant, engaging, and develops critical thinking. There is valuable and timely information in each of these articles that will help all educators to transform the educational experiences of English Learners.
-- Charlene Lui, executive director, National Associate for Multicultural Education
As a practitioner who has worked with English Learners (ELs) for 25+ years, this collection of essays is extremely helpful for all who engage in this field to help build their knowledge, skills, and dispositions in creating educational spaces where ELs can thrive and succeed. The authors remind us that when we work with ELs we need to include strategies such as culturally sustaining pedagogy, translanguaging (equity in language), eliminating deficit biases towards minoritized students, assisting students to critically analyze their experiences, understand and know all ELs (the whole child), and how to achieve success for ELs in different content areas that are relevant, engaging, and develops critical thinking. There is valuable and timely information in each of these articles that will help all educators to transform the educational experiences of English Learners.
-- Charlene Lui, executive director, National Associate for Multicultural Education
Ranging from theoretical explorations to methodological and empirical elaborations, this collection demonstrates the breadth of contemporary social change perspectives in the discipline. The essays confirm the importance of social change perspectives to English language learning and learners. It will be an engaging and insightful text for readers new to and familiar with social change perspectives and English language learners and learning.
-- Lisa Zagumny PhD, professor and dean, College of Education, Tennessee Tech University; President National Association for Multicultural Education
Table of ContentsIntroduction Using Your Authentic Voice Through Language, by Camacia Smith-Ross
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1Beyond the Strategies: Supporting English Language Learners, by David Parker
Chapter 2Negotiating Possibilities for Teaching English Learners: A Critical Conversation Between Language Separation and Translanguaging, by Kevin Donley
Chapter 3Improving Mathematics Outcomes for English Language Learners Through Implementation of the Elementary Mathematics Initiative, by Cliff Chestnutt and Andrea Smith
Chapter 4Evolving the Language We Use: Interrupting Deficit Narratives About Multilingual Learners and Emergent Bilingual Students, by Leah M. Mortenson
Chapter 5English Language Bilingualism, by Judith A. Orth and Kathleen M. Hargiss
Chapter 6Positioning English Language Learners for Mathematical Success, by Erin Smith
Chapter 7Educational Journeys: Youth Voices as the Impetus for Social Justice Curriculum in Latinx Multilingual Classrooms, by Rubén A. González
Chapter 8Linking Multicultural Education With Best Practices for Multilingual Students, by Renee Shank and Lin Wu
Chapter 9Beyond Language: A Sociocultural Approach to K–12 English Language Teaching and Learning, by Immaculée Harushimana
Chapter 10Becoming “Talent Scouts”: Identifying Gifted Potential in English Learners, by Holly D. Glaser and Erica C. Meadows
Chapter 11Introducing Translanguaging as Pedagogy: Unpacking Preservice ESL Teachers’ Language Ideologies and Practices, by Nuo Xu and Verónica E. Valdez
Chapter 12Characteristics of English Language Learners, by Nan Li and Courtney A. Howard
Chapter 13A Need for Taiwanese Indigenous Immigrant Literature, by Hsiao-Ching Lin and Antonette Aragón
Chapter 14Lessons and Transformations From the Borderlands: Preparing Educators to Support Emerging Bilinguals, by Michele L. McConnell and Kelly Metz-Matthews
Chapter 15Strategies for Moving From Learning English, Bilingual Education to a More Inclusive Multilingual Education, by Georgina Y. García and Jan Perry Evenstad
Chapter 16Real Teachers Teaching Real Students: Where Theory Meets Practice—Learning English in Secondary Schools, by Glori Hodge Smith
Chapter 17Creating Social Change for English Language Learners by Improving Access to Grade-Level Instruction, by Charity Funfe Tatah Mentan, Darrell Peterson, Yi-Chen Wu, Kristin Kline Liu, and Kym O’Donnell
Chapter 18Binds and Unravels: Science Teachers Deepening Learning for English Language Learners, by Analis Carattini-Ruiz
About the Contributors
About the Editors
