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This collection focuses on social awareness and critical language awareness with the goal of enlightening and empowering multilingual and multicultural communities across the U.S. This volume will be of interest to students, scholars, and educators in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and language education.
Sommario
Contents
List of Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1: Raising Awareness of The Cultural and Linguistic Wealth of Multilingual Communities
Chapter 1: Literacy Pedagogies in Tension: Young Latiné Children Literacy Competencies in the Rural Midwest, Laura Anna Edwards
Chapter 2: Signs of Language Justice? Solidarity, Belonging, and Strategies for Fostering Linguistic Equity, Jhonni Rochelle Charisse Carr
Chapter 3: Heritage Spanish in the News: Understanding, Reevaluating, and Embracing One’s Heritage Language on the National Stage, Meghann Peace
Part 2: Inspiring Paths for Empowering Members of Multilingual Communities
Chapter 4: Discursively Silencing Latinx Child Immigrants in United States Mainstream Media, Megan Strom
Chapter 5: “En Busca de un Mejor Futuro”: Interpreting for Undocumented Children in the Greater New Orleans Area as a Means of Advocating for Social Justice, Lisbeth A. Philip and Silvia Gómez Juárez
Chapter 6: Public Verbal Violence against Spanish-Speaking Migrants in the USA, Mercedes Niño-Murcia
Chapter 7: The Role of Heritage Bilingualism in Bringing Social Justice to Research, Ethan Kutlu and Diego Pascual y Cabo
Part 3: Providing a Path for Educational Parity for Multilingual Students
Chapter 8: The Language/Linguistics Classroom as a Decolonizing Space through the Use of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies, Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia
Chapter 9: Aprender con el Corazón: Awakening Consciousness and Negotiating Identity in the Name of Equity and Social Justice in the SHL Classroom, Gabriela Moreno
Chapter 10: The Fallacy of Academic Accountability for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners: How the Linguistic Features of High-Stakes Tests Structure Inequity, Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza
Chapter 11: Unlocking Word Structure in School: A Vehicle for Social Justice for Multilingual Learners, Michelle A. Duffy and Jean Ann
Chapter 12: Promoting Awareness of Social Justice Issues through Technology-Mediated Project-Based Language Learning, Ruslan Suvorov and Jesse Gleason
Index
Info autore
Michelle F. Ramos Pellicia (Ph.D., The Ohio State University) is a Professor of Sociolinguistics specializing in Latinx communities at California State University San Marcos.
Patricia MacGregor-Mendoza is Professor of Spanish and Linguistics in the Department of Languages and Linguistics at New Mexico State University, USA.
Mercedes Niño-Murcia is Professor Emerita of Hispanic Linguistics in the Departments of Linguistics and Spanish & Portuguese at the University of Iowa, USA.
Riassunto
This collection focuses on social awareness and critical language awareness with the goal of enlightening and empowering multilingual and multicultural communities across the U.S. This volume will be of interest to students, scholars, and educators in sociolinguistics, applied linguistics, and language education.
