Browsing Literacy and Learning - Faculty & Staff by Issue Date
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Walking in my students' shoes: An ESL teacher brings theory to life in order to transform her classroom
(New Prairie Press, 2010)Throughout my career as an English as a Second Language (ESL) teacher, it has been obvious that in each setting there is a popular phrase that accurately describes the classroom: “one of these things is not like the other” ... -
Look, think, act: Using critical action research to sustain reform in complex teaching/learning ecologies.
(Buffalo State, 2010)This paper argues that educators interested in sustainability should look to complexity science for guiding principles. When we view our classrooms and campuses as living, dynamic ecologies, we can, as insiders, make sense ... -
Juxtaposing the immigrant and adolescent girl experiences: Literature for all readers
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2012)The author encourages teachers to explore themes in literature that connect to experiences of young female immigrants and that eschew stereotypical representations. She discusses a list of recommended texts. -
Giving voice to Valeria's story: Support, value, and agency for immigrant adolescents
(International Reading Association, 2013)The article presents the circumstances of a recent Salvadoran immigrant high school student who puts forth great effort to learn despite difficult circumstances caused by her immigration status, economic realities, and the ... -
"I don't want to write for them" : An at-risk Latino youth's out-of-school literacy practices
(Taylor & Francis, 2014)This single-case study demonstrates one bilingual Latino youth's out-of-school literacy practices and how he has learned to disconnect them from his academic work. Qualitative data taken from interviews, the participant's ... -
Emergent bilinguals’ emerging identities in a dual language school
(Texas Association for Bilingual Education, 2015)The purpose of this study was to explore how emergent bilinguals’ emerging identities interact with their language attitudes and choices in various contexts to create their investment in English, Spanish, and bilingualism. ... -
Generation gap between students' needs and teachers' use of technology in classrooms
(Journal of Literacy and Technology, 2016)In the 21st century, technology is a pervasive presence in the classroom. Unintended consequences of a technologically rich classroom learning environment emerge due to the dichotomy between 21st-century learners’ and ... -
Nurturing caring relationships with newcomers through five simple rules
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2016)In my office I have a picture that reminds me the priority is the peo-ple we teach— not content, assess-ments, or compliance. The picture is of high school multilingual refugee students holding ... -
Sanctioning a space for translanguaging in the secondary English class: A case of a transnational youth
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2016)A growing number o f adolescents in the United States are transnationals who regularly engage in translanguaging practices by drawing on their full linguistic repertoires in their everyday lives. Many of these students ... -
Hurdling over language barriers: Building relationships with adolescent newcomers through literacy advancement
(Wiley Open Access, 2018)Adolescents who are newcomers in a country and beginning to acquire English as an additional language are often in secondary classrooms with teachers who do not speak their languages. Due to these communication obstacles, ... -
As easy as ABC? Teaching and learning about letters in early literacy
(International Literacy AssociationThe Reading Teacher, 2018)Letter learning is nuanced, complex, and essential to the development of an effective literacy processing system. Forming and naming letters, rapidly differentiating between visually similar letters, and recognizing their ... -
Mentoring novice teachers to advance inclusive mathematics practices
(Whole Schooling Consortium, 2019)We facilitate a year-long teacher induction program in the United States involving earlycareer teachers in urban elementary schools as a means to advance their inclusive mathematics practices. The participants in this ... -
Universal design for learning: Examining access afforded by children’s search engines
(Journal of Literacy and Technology, 2019)Young children benefit from authentic opportunities to conduct online searches. Decisions related to the use of children’s search engines versus universal search engines should include considerations for the affordances ... -
“My life, my stories”: Reading, writing, and belonging in the ESL classroom
(National Council of Teachers of English, 2019)As I looked around the room, I noticed my students had their heads down, nearly falling asleep. “Class, what’s wrong?” From across the room, José responded, “Miss, we don’t like the topic of pyramids. And who cares ... -
Co-learning, translanguaging and English language acquisition
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)The US has the largest number of English-speakers in the world, but it is also multilingual: according to 2018 census data, 23% of children aged 5 to 17 speak another language at home. English language acquisition for those ... -
Descubriendo los recursos culturales de Estudiantes Indígenas Latinoamericanos a través de la literatura [Discovering the cultural resources of Latin American Indigenous students through literature]
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)While educators and researchers make notable progress for Spanish speaking students in the United States, Latin American indigenous students are a growing, yet overlooked population with rich cultural resources, including ... -
Co-learning in the high school English class through translanguaging: Emergent bilingual newcomers and monolingual teachers
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)There is a growing chasm between the instruction of secondary emergent bilinguals (EBs) and research illustrating the benefits of adolescent EBs using translanguaging practices for academic engagement and gains. Specifically, ... -
Translingual disciplinary literacies: Equitable language environments to support literacy engagement
(Wiley, 2021)The burgeoning work of translanguaging and bilingualism has much to offer adolescent learning spaces in order to provide bi/multilingual students more equitable opportunities to engage in disciplinary literacy at the ... -
Teachers and diverse students: A knowledge-to-action reader response model to promote critical consciousness
(Taylor & Francis, 2021)Anti-immigrant vitriol is growing, even disturbing our educational spaces. Teachers are also affected by the negative discourses around them and need to develop knowledge that shapes their attitudes and actions regarding ... -
Bilingual education during a pandemic: Family engagement. La educación bilingüe durante una pandemia: Compromiso familiar
(Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2022)During the COVID-19 global pandemic, teachers have had to be creative on how they engage with the families of emergent bilingual students. This content analysis of four teacher focus groups reveals ways in which teachers ...
