Across the United States, the growing number of students who enter K-12 schools from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds (CLD) necessitates attention to building inclusive partnerships with CLD families. This conceptual article conveys the experiences of three cohorts of educators who shaped CLD family engagement practices through…

This study examines how in-service teachers of multilingual learners (MLs) utilize teacher research to integrate and reflect on culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy (CLRP). Through a 12-month professional development (PD) course, part of a broader initiative supported by a National Professional Development grant, teachers engaged in…

Critical place-based pedagogies are closely tied to the social space of teachers and learners, aiming to raise awareness and support efforts for positive change. Social space shapes--and is shaped by--language teaching and learning. A critical approach to language teacher education must always engage with space and place, and contextual awareness…

This book presents, discusses and explores questions around teachers' (mainstream teachers, student teachers, EAL teachers) conceptions of language and literacy practices as they seek to meet the educational needs of pupils from linguistically and culturally diverse backgrounds. The book captures the voices of a range of educators from various…

In recent times, the world has seen an unprecedented increase in the number of refugees seeking asylum and refuge from war, conflict, and persecution. This study focuses on five refugee children in Malaysia and how their knowledge, skills, and lived experiences could be harnessed to support their education, well-being, and social inclusion. The…

Multilingual learners in the United States are often segregated for parts of the school day in ways that limit their learning opportunities. Given a resurgence in monolingual and anti-immigrant language policy, the role of educators in promoting multilingual learner integration is increasingly important. We draw from four qualitative studies…

This study investigates the manifestation of translanguaging in joint academic courses for Jewish and Arab students studying in a binational Israeli teacher education college. The study focuses on the lectures' and students' perspectives. Sources of data included in-depth personal and focus-group interviews with the lecturers and students.…

Previous studies have found that pride is a frequent and important emotion in achievement contexts although it is under-researched in the second/foreign language (FL) context. Therefore, the aim of this research was to explore pride in the context of FL learning. For this purpose, we proposed a conceptual model of FL pride, drawing on previous…

In second language (L2) research, aptitude is typically viewed as a multicomponential, cognitive construct. Yet we know that L2 learning is influenced by multiple learner individual differences (IDs) besides cognitive abilities and that these IDs interact. In this article, we consider the affordances and implications of working toward a broader…

Background: The Shared Knowledge Theory (Fitzgerald & Shanahan, 2000) posits that reading and writing share key knowledge domains, including word knowledge (e.g., vocabulary, decoding), universal text attributes (e.g., syntax), and procedural knowledge (e.g., text organization). This framework establishes a foundation for examining the…

The author describes a heritage language poetry translation project taught in a third- and fourth-grade classroom with both multilingual and monolingual students. Students interviewed family members about their heritage languages, worked with family and community members to choose and analyze a poem in their heritage language, identified essential…

Bilingualism and polylinguism necessitate the development of multilingual competence of citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The specific feature of the study of languages as an academic discipline lies in the teaching of communicative activities. The purpose of this study was to investigate the aspects of training a future teacher-psychologist…

The sociolinguistic context of language use contributes to individuals' linguistic knowledge. However, how it does so has yet to be fully conceptualised or quantitatively investigated within the language sciences. To meet this goal, a psychometrically sound evidence-based measure that captures important aspects of contextually influenced…

The call for improving students' academic achievement in science education has increased in urgency in recent years. It has also increased in complexity in the face of the growing cultural and linguistic diversity of present-day classrooms following inter- and intra-state migration. Although "translanguaging" pedagogy, where languages of…

In line with the directions of the Council of Europe on the teaching of foreign languages to young learners and in view of recent waves of immigration in Europe, special emphasis is nowadays being placed on plurilingual and pluricultural practices in the school system. This paper describes the change towards embracing plurilingualism in a primary…