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Tala Michelle Karkar-Esperat – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2025
Creativity in the classroom should inspire teaching and learning that maximizes the students' abilities and language competency. Humanity in education is based on respect, dignity, transparency, and compassion. It should be the foundation for the classroom environment before implementing any framework. Offering compassion for all learners is a…
Descriptors: Multiple Literacies, Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Semiotics
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Chatwara Suwannamai Duran; Aijuan Cun – TESOL Journal, 2025
While Southeast Asian countries are gearing up toward being internationally recognizable in their economics, tourism, education, and their English proficiency competitiveness, refugee-background populations are often minoritized. Traumatic past and forced migration make refugee-background students different from traditional students. It is vital…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Refugees, Student Characteristics, Multilingualism
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Kristen L. Pratt; Andrea M. Emerson; Jaclyn Caires-Hurley; Maria Dantas-Whitney – TESOL Journal, 2024
School readiness research points to familial assets as tools for enriching home-literacy and home-school partnerships. This research informs an urgent call for reimagining educator preparedness relative to bridging students' lived experiences at home and school. Developing a multidimensional approach to effectively partnering with multilingual…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Multilingualism, Student Diversity, English Language Learners
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Skerrett, Allison – Multicultural Education Review, 2015
In this article, I draw on theories of generativity and multiliteracies pedagogy, as well as research on youths' language and literacy practices and development that are framed by a multiliteracies lens, to outline approaches to literacy education that draw upon, as well as strengthen, students' existing language, literacy, and cultural…
Descriptors: Literacy, Multilingualism, Multiple Literacies, Multicultural Education
Mazak, Catherine M., Ed.; Carroll, Kevin S., Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2016
This book examines translanguaging in higher education and provides clear examples of what translanguaging looks like in practice in particular contexts around the world. While higher education has historically been seen as a monolingual space, the case studies from the international contexts included in this collection show us that institutions…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Bilingual Education, Higher Education, Ideology
Pitkänen-Huhta, Anne, Ed.; Holm, Lars, Ed. – Multilingual Matters, 2012
"Literacy Practices in Transition" explores the connections between local, situated literacy practices and global processes of mobility in the geographical space of the Nordic countries, an example of contemporary mobile societies. The detailed empirical analyses show how these connections affect individuals, practices and policies; how…
Descriptors: Educational Practices, Foreign Countries, Literacy Education, Educational Trends