Inquiries Into Literacy Learning and Cultural Competencies in a World of Borders

ISBN-13: 9781641132053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 286 str.

Huber, Tonya

Opis

Presents the work of educators and scholars invested in moving education beyond insular models of language study and cultural awareness to more globally representative and inclusive interactions that range from the studied word to the lived experience, and from reading the word to reading the world.

Spis treści

• Foreword
• Preface: Literacy Learning and Intercultural Competency: Shifting From Dominant Culture to Multi-Cultural to Globally Inter-Cultural
• Part I: Laredo, Texas—Nuevo Laredo, Mexico: A River Runs Through It.
• Research-Based Instructional Strategies for Emerging ELL Readers
• “Un-Drowning” the Transfer Process: Strategies to Aid Hispanic Transfer Students
• Intercultural Competency: Crossing Borders Between Laredo, Texas, USA, and Ahmednagar, India
• Part II: Voices Of Border Crossers. Structuring and Un-Structuring Interaction Among English Language Learners (ELL) and Their Non-ELL Peers
• Moving Between Languages, Meanings, and Worlds: Bilingual Adolescents as Poetry Translators and Cultural Mediators
• Youth Scaling Borders to Access Education
• Part III: Historical, National, Theoretical, And Emerging Paradigms Of English Language Learning, Bilingualism, And Culturally Responsive Practice.
• Cognitive Impact of Bilingualism And Language Habits at the Borders of Cultures and Nations
• Crossing Cultural Borders: Language Use and Identity of Chinese Immigrant Students
• Project-Based Inquiry: Professional Development With Chinese EFL Elementary Teachers
• Promoting Intercultural Learning Through an International Teaching Internship Program
• The Role of Teacher Educators and Teacher Leaders in Developing Intercultural Literacy in and Beyond US Border Communities
• Epilogue: In Pursuit of English Language Learning on the Border: The TAMIULBV Literacy Partnership
• About the Contributors.
• Recognizing Reviewers’ Critical Feedback.