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Immersion as Language Ideology and Other Discourses in English-Language Voluntourism
English-language voluntourism is a practice in which well-meaning, often uncredentialled and inexperienced, native or highly proficient English...
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Supporting multilingual children at-risk of reading failure: impacts of a multilingual structured pedagogy literacy intervention in Kenya
Many children living in linguistically diverse low- and middle-income countries learn to read and write in multiple languages. Recent research...
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A simple view of reading analysis of Spanish-speaking multi-language learners and proficient English speakers
Shifting demographics in K-12 schools have increased Spanish-speaking Multi-Language Learners’ (MLLs’) enrollment across the United States. While...
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Navigating competing policy demands: Dual service provision for English learners with disabilities in middle school
Research has documented that service provision for English learners (ELs) with disabilities is a complicated endeavor in K–12 schools. Recent studies...
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Using Technology for English-Medium Instruction: The Use of Livestreaming in the Marketing Classroom
To investigate how technology can benefit the acquisition of both English and content knowledge in marketing courses, this study examines one form of...
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Creating fertile grounds for two-way immersion: gentrification, immigration, & neoliberal school reforms
Bilingual Two-Way Immersion (TWI) programs are becoming increasingly popular in the United States, especially amongst white, non-Hispanic,...
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English Language Policies and Practice in the World: From Problems Toward Solutions
There is increasing attention to granting wider access to education through English as a medium of instruction (EMI) in many parts of the world. This...
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Transmission of Breton Among Immersion-School Students: The Impact of Home Language
This chapter examines the impact of the linguistic environment of the home on the Breton of teenaged speakers who attend the lise Diwan, a Breton...
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Translating the Value of Global Languages: Learning/Teaching Spanish/English Within Volunteer Tourism in Cusco, Peru
This chapter explores how interactions between local child vendors and volunteer tourists facilitate bidirectional language exchange in Cusco, Peru....
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Dreaming of Entrepreneurship, Europe, English, and Freedom: Voluntourism as a Pure Survival Strategy
Voluntourism is often depicted as a leisure activity of young White middle-class people from the Global North who engage as volunteers in...
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Becoming a Content and Language Integrated Learning Specialist: Exploring the Voices of English Language Teachers in Uruguay
Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) has become one of the preferred approaches in many public and private second and foreign language...
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A decade after institutionalization: educators’ perspectives of structured English immersion
In 2006, Arizona ELL Task Force implemented Structured English Immersion (SEI) within its public schools to educate emergent bilingual (EB) students....
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Revitalizing Language Education: An Exploratory Study on the Innovative Use of Mobile Applications in English Language Teaching at a State University in Vietnam
This study investigated the use of mobile applications as an innovative tool in English Language Teaching (ELT) at a Vietnamese state university. Its...
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Teacher-Generated Instructional Materials for Integrating Content and Language Learning: Actualizing the Translanguaging for English Language Learners
Content teachers often struggle to help English language learners (ELLs) demonstrate a more profound understanding and analysis of the subject...
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Voluntelling the Voluntoured: State-Prompted South Korean English Language and Labor Mobility in Australia
In the twenty-first century, the South Korean state has promoted English language education as a key resource in globalizing its workforce and...
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Effects of German reading skills and bilingualism on early learning of English as a foreign language in primary school children
The present study investigates how reading fluency in German, and monolingual versus bilingual language background influence the learning of English...
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The summary writing performance of bilingual learners with reading difficulties
Summary writing is an important tactic for learning from text and the summaries provide information on students’ comprehension and learning...
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Standard Translatable English: A Minimal English for Teaching and Learning Invisible Culture in Language Classrooms
Several decades of research has shown that NSM and minimal languages have applications in language teaching, but how can Minimal English be presented...
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Mid-level leaders as key policy interpreters: state and local leaders’ perspectives on leveraging Castañeda to expand equity for English learner students
With the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in Castañeda v. Pickard , for the first time, educators and advocates saw the potential to ensure...
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Afterword: The Wages of Global Experience, Post Unit Thinking, and Post Native Speaker Ideologies in Volunteer Tourism
This Afterword expands the horizon of discussions offered in this volume by arguing that the volunteer tourists received “the Wages of Global...