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Katie A. Bernstein; Lindsey Brown; Yalda M. Kaveh; Brandon Yuhas; Sepide Pazhouhi – Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, 2025
Language education policy in Arizona has been on a rollercoaster over the last five years. Between 2019 and 2024, the state shifted from strict English-only enforcement to loosening restrictions and encouraging dual language approaches, then back to strict English-only enforcement. In this forum piece, we use approaches from critical discourse…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, State Policy, Superintendents, English Only Movement
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Chang-Bacon, Chris K. – Critical Studies in Education, 2022
This paper critically examines the notion of 'sheltered' pedagogies for English language teaching in English-dominant contexts. I specifically explore how the increasingly popular Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) model has been interpreted in certain contexts to further monolingual language ideologies. Drawing on critical and poststructural…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Language Attitudes, Teaching Methods, English (Second Language)
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Macías, Reynaldo F. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2016
Richard Ruiz wrote "Orientations in Language Planning" in 1984, and it became an influential article in several language disciplines. How is it that this article became so popular and had such lasting impact? In order to answer this question, I undertook to understand the language political scene at the time, looked at his contribution…
Descriptors: Language Planning, Bilingual Education, Educational Policy, Rhetoric
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Williams, Bonnie J. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2013
The 1974 Conference on College Composition and Communication's (CCCC) resolution declaring "Students' Right to Their Own Language" (SRTOL) defends the rights of students and all other writers to use different varieties of English (see Committee on CCCC Language Statement, 1974). In addition, the 1988 CCCC adoption of the National…
Descriptors: Black Dialects, Teaching Methods, Language Usage, Language Variation
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Mackinney, Erin; Rios-Aguilar, Cecilia – Bilingual Research Journal, 2012
This article examines how Arizona's teachers of English learners negotiate between restrictive language policies and complex teaching conditions. This case study explores how middle school teachers in an urban school district make sense of the 4-hour English language development block, Arizona's recent English-only policy. Findings indicate that…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Language Planning