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Book SynopsisEnglish Learners (ELs) are left behind in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The growing need for effective critical pedagogical competence (CPC), critical technological competence (CTC), and critical cross-cultural communicative competence (C5) in teachers who serve ELs has become more evident because of the increasing numbers of ELs and the global socio-economic, and technological developments. C5, which encompasses CTC and CPC, is defined in the book as the teacher's ability to communicate effectively across cultures with diverse individuals. An educator who possesses C5 is able to critically understand the power relations and importance of the socio-economic and political contexts in any human encounter and the ability to make connections with real life to teach STEM content successfully. The book provides teachers of ELs with a research-based framework using classroom-tested Computer-assisted Language Learning and Teaching (CALL) programs to empower themselv
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: CALL and STEM Education for ELs: A Research-based Critical Pedagogical Approach Chapter 2: Empowering English Learners to Achieve Academic Success: Teaching Vocabulary, Grammar, and STEM Content through CALL Chapter 3: A Process-oriented Approach to Empowering English Learners to Achieve Academic Success in STEM while Reading and Writing through CALL Chapter 4: A Critical and Integrative Approach to Empowering English Learners to Achieve Academic Success in STEM while Listening and Speaking through CALL Chapter 5: Developing ELs’ Multiple Literacies to Master STEM via CALL Chapter 6: Empowering ELs to Engage in STEM and Develop Their Critical Crosscultural Communicative Competence via CALL Chapter 7: Critical TESOL Self-Professional Development to Empower STEM Teachers of ELs via CALL References Credits Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C
