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‘I Could Still Be Myself as a Warlpiri Person’: How Bilingual Education Achieves Community Development Aims
Three Warlpiri educators provide insightful reflections on their experiences in a bilingual education programme in a remote community in Australia,...
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The Teaching of Mandarin Chinese in New Zealand’s Schools: Where Have We Come From? Where Are We Now? Where Are We Going?
The learning of Mandarin Chinese in schools in Aotearoa /New Zealand has been on an upwards trajectory, in particular over the last few years, and...
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Plurilingual Tasks in TESOL: Improving Learners’ Emotionality
Current Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) practices are often anchored in monolingual and monocultural ideologies that focus...
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After Castañeda: a glotopolítica perspective and educational dignity paradigm to educate racialized bilinguals
In the U.S., programming for students classified as English Learners must adhere to the framework outlined in Castañeda v. Pickard (1981), which...
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Willingness to Lead: A Framework for Language Teacher Leadership Development
What makes teachers want to lead? And what prevents them from doing so? In this introductory chapter I introduce a new concept, Willingness to Lead...
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“I Demand the Friendship of Zoroaster”: William Godwin and World Literature of Friendship
The debate about world literature holds a prominent place in national and comparative literary studies today. However, despite its significance,...
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Teachers Explore the Complexity of Learners’ Lives through Ethnographic Projects
Chapter 8 , by Maria Dantas-Whitney, describes an assignment designed to prepare ELT teachers in the...
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“Now it’s all upper-class parents who are checking out schools”: gentrification as coloniality in the enactment of two-way bilingual education policies
Bilingual education as a whole has been gentrifying, as more privileged students replace Transnational Language Learners (TLLs) in bilingual...
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Bilingual teacher educators as language policy agents: A critical language policy perspective of the Castañeda v. Pickard case and the bilingual teacher shortage
Drawing on decades of lessons from a Bilingual Teacher Education Program (BTEP) in California that has persevered both restrictive and additive...
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Pedagogical Stylistics Since 2007: A Baker’s Dozen
This chapter offers a survey review of research and activity in pedagogical stylistics since 2007. The survey refers to first language as well as...
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Enacting Oratory on Social Media
This chapter brings together a number of examples that are representative of current trends in social media oratory. It focuses on some key stakes of...
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Embedding Multilingualism in Undergraduate Courses: A Need for Heteroglossia in US TESOL Teacher Preparation Programs
Despite the increased acknowledgment of multilingualism in the United States, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) teacher...
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Interpreter-Mediated End-of-Life Encounters in Spain: Map** the Spanish Situation Based on Healthcare Providers’ Input
In today’s globalised and multilingual world, healthcare professionals assist users who do not speak the language of the country they are living in....
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2103, le retour de l’Éléphant: la science-fiction utopique en dialogue avec l’Écologie
When contemporary literature seeks to warn the reader against the environmental threats that haunt the planet, it often turns to end-of-the-world...
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Introduction Towards a Theory of Disaster and Crisis Management: Transactional Theory of Persuasion, Coercion and Manipulation (TTPCM)
Crisis/disaster management cannot be fully achieved in the absence of an adequate in-depth understanding of influence. Thus, in this chapter we...
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TED Talks: A Case Study
This chapter presents a case study of TED talks, a prominent social phenomenon which is prototypical of both the formal characteristics and the...
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On “Science-Literature-Art” in Chinese Children’s Literature
As a modern academic neologism, “science-literature-art” is an important component of Chinese children’s literature. Looking back on the process of...
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Revisiting the definition of dyslexia
The International Dyslexia Association definition of dyslexia was updated 20 years ago and has been referenced frequently in research and practice....
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Language Strategies in China
The studies of language strategy emerged as a new area of research in China in the twenty-first century. At the beginning, the studies were generally...
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A Corpus-Based Analysis of Ideologies in Chilean SLTE Policies
Second language teacher education (SLTE), particularly teaching English as a foreign language (EFL), has gained relevance over the last few decades....