This chapter explores that writing is a social technology designed to communicate among
people. It is learned and produced in social circumstances, establishes social relationships …

ABSTRACTS This study explored the congruence in reading and teaching patterns of low‐
income, young African American mothers while interacting with their preschool‐age children …

In this chapter I attempt to address this question from my insider vantage point as a member
of the linguistic-cognitive SLA communities I critically examine. In doing so, I am keen to …

This article examines multilingual interactions in the complementary school classroom for
ethnic Chinese children in the UK. Through a detailed analysis of classroom exchanges …

Global migration has had significant impact on the traditional configuration of the classroom
role set. The language teacher may be teaching a group of learners with highly mixed …

It is common for teachers in all districts across the United States to give homework to their
students. Given the rising numbers of children from nondominant backgrounds1 in American …

Transformative Education aims decisively to transform the world of education and to nurture
the next generation to become problem-solvers and creative thinkers, empowered with the …

This investigation is an ethnographic case study of the literacy learning opportunities of a
fifth-grade Hmong child (pseudonym Deng) who came to the United States from Laos via …

This paper reports on an innovative approach to oral language development in one British
Columbia elementary school, in the context of a larger-scale research project aimed at …

Abstract In North American university contexts, the language diversity found in English
mainstream composition (“L1”) classrooms resembles more and more that found in ESL …