Advocacy in English Language Teaching and Learning

ISBN-13: 9781138489851 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 212 str.

Heather Linville; James C. Whiting

Opis

This holistic text examines the nexus of advocacy and English-language teaching, beginning with theories of advocacy, covering constraints and challenges in practice, and offering a range of hands-on perspectives in different contexts and with different populations.　

Spis treści

Part I: Overview of Advocacy  1. Advocacy Skills for Teachers: "A Real Careful Little Dance"   2. Problematizing Advocacy: Definitions, Alignments, and Expansions Part II: Preparing Teacher Advocates  3. Beyond the Philosophy Statement: Bringing Advocacy Center Stage in TESOL Teacher Education  4. Building Advocacy Capacity in a Teacher Training Program  5. Cultivating a Sense of Critical Consciousness in Teacher Candidates within a Community-Based Adult ESL Program  6. Action Research for Advocacy in a Supervised Teaching Seminar Part III: Advocacy in Action  7. Exploring Advocacy in an Elementary ESL Afterschool Program in the United States: Empirically, What's There?  8. Language Advocate Alliances: Families and Educators United to Support English  9. Moving Away from the Margins: Publication of International Voices as a Tool for Advocacy  10. Action Required: The Adult Educator as Activist  11. A Framework for Asset-focused Advocacy in Adult ESL Education  12. Making the Path by Walking Together: A Collaborative Approach to Advocacy Part IV: Advocating with Specific EL Populations  13. Advocating for Indigenous Hispanic EL Students: Promoting the Indigenismo Within  14. A Mother’s Advocacy: Lessons for Educators of Long-term EL Students  15. From Majority to Minority: Advocating for English Learners from the African Diaspora