Literacy, Vocabulary, and Acculturation

This book provides strong, diverse context that supports educators in driving theory to practice when engaging with English Language Learners. It unpacks where these students have been, where they are, but more importantly, where they can go when educators have cultivated the desperately needed knowledge, skillsets, and dispositions for advancing equity for this group of learners.

This book provides strong, diverse context that supports educators in driving theory to practice when engaging with English Language Learners. It unpacks where these students have been, where they are, but more importantly, where they can go when educators have cultivated the desperately needed knowledge, skillsets, and dispositions for advancing equity for this group of learners., As a practitioner who has worked with English Learners (ELs) for 25+ years, this collection of essays is extremely helpful for all who engage in this field to help build their knowledge, skills, and dispositions in creating educational spaces where ELs can thrive and succeed. The authors remind us that when we work with ELs we need to include strategies such as culturally sustaining pedagogy, translanguaging (equity in language), eliminating deficit biases towards minoritized students, assisting students to critically analyze their experiences, understand and know all ELs (the whole child), and how to achieve success for ELs in different content areas that are relevant, engaging, and develops critical thinking. There is valuable and timely information in each of these articles that will help all educators to transform the educational experiences of English Learners. , As a practitioner who has worked with English Learners (ELs) for 25+ years, this collection of essays is extremely helpful for all who engage in this field to help build their knowledge, skills, and dispositions in creating educational spaces where ELs can thrive and succeed. The authors remind us that when we work with ELs we need to include strategies such as culturally sustaining pedagogy, translanguaging (equity in language), eliminating deficit biases towards minoritized students, assisting students to critically analyze their experiences, understand and know all ELs (the whole child), and how to achieve success for ELs in different content areas that are relevant, engaging, and develops critical thinking. There is valuable and timely information in each of these articles that will help all educators to transform the educational experiences of English Learners. , Ranging from theoretical explorations to methodological and empirical elaborations, this collection demonstrates the breadth of contemporary social change perspectives in the discipline. The essays confirm the importance of social change perspectives to English language learning and learners. It will be an engaging and insightful text for readers new to and familiar with social change perspectives and English language learners and learning.

Ashraf Esmail is an associate professor and program coordinator of criminal justice at Dillard University. He is the Director for the Center for Racial Justice and Barron Hilton Criminal Justice Endowed Professor. Abul Pitre is professor and department chair of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University. He was appointed Edinboro University’s first named professor for his outstanding work in African American education and held the distinguished title of Carter G. Woodson Professor of Education.Alice Duhon Ross is a core faculty for the Richard W. Riley College of Education at Walden University. She is a career educator with over thirty years of teaching in higher education and is a Nationally Board-Certified Counselor and National Board-Certified School Counselor.Judith Blakely is an educational specialist. She is certified in multiple states as a school superintendent, school administrator (pre-K-12 principal), and director of special, bilingual, and gifted education. H. Prentice Baptiste is a Regents and Distinguished Achievement Professor, and in 2014 was awarded the first College of Education, Diversity Award at New Mexico State University.