This new OER was conceived by editors Chantelle Warner and Julieta Fernández (both at the University of Arizona)
This handbook provides a deliberately multifaceted introductory understanding of concepts, discussions, and debates in applied linguistics (AL), which are chosen to welcome preservice teachers and advanced students in second language studies into key contemporary conversations that are ongoing in the field. The ten chapters engage readers in the systematic engagement with and discussion of different current theories for language analysis and their potential applications to the practice and research of language teaching and learning. Although they are eclectic in other ways, they share a common understanding of language as a semiotic resource used to make meaning. Relatedly, the authors in this collection talk about learning as not only situated and embodied, but also mediated by learners’ social identities, their investment and agency, literacy and instructional practices, and language ideologies. Each chapter includes hands-on activities based on the interpretation, reflection on, and application of theoretical points included in the chapter, often exemplifying the concepts and/or providing data from less commonly taught languages. As a whole, the collection of chapters offers reflexive mediational tools for expanding assumptions about language as a bounded, uniform system to be acquired and adopting more inclusive, culturally responsive teaching approaches in multiple languages.
Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Author Biographies
- Introduction: by Julieta Fernández and Chantelle Warner
- Chapter 1: Machine Translation and World Language Education, by Emily Hellmich and Kimberly Vinall
- Chapter 2: Multimodal Meaning-Making in Second Language Teaching and Research, by Sebastien Dubreil and Natalie Amgott
- Chapter 3: Disability, Access, and Inclusion in Language Education, by David Gramling and Sanya Malik
- Chapter 4: Gender-Just Language Pedagogies, by Kris Knisely
- Chapter 5: Critical Intercultural Language Pedagogies, by Adriana Diaz
- Chapter 6: Race and Anti-racist Pedagogical Possibilities in World Language Teaching, by Hongni Gou and Wenhao Diao
- Chapter 7: Decolonization and Language Teaching / Kuondoa Ukoloni na Ufundishaji wa Lugha, by Jamie A. Thomas
- Chapter 8: Translanguaging Pedagogies, Emma Trentman
- Chapter 9: Beyond Unit Thinking: Post-Standardization in Language Teaching, by Neriko Doerr; Jisuk Park; and Kimiko Suzuki
- Chapter 10: Language Policy in Multilingual Classrooms, by Hina Ashraf
- Recommended References for Further Reading
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