Abstracts Archive

This presentation aims at providing information on and insights into a current PhD project in the area of Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) that deals with Critical Thinking (CT) in cross-curricular and cross-linguistic instruction. In the research project, self-designed project lessons on...

"Just what is Critical Race Theory [CRT], and what's it doing in a nice field like education?" Gloria Ladson-Billings (2009) first posed this question in 1998, while more recently, Allison Crump (2014) has theorized what she calls "LangCrit," or "Critical Language and Race Theory," to examine the in...

Engaging with the symposium theme, this paper proposes a renewed vision of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) through a translanguaging (TL) stance, grounded in critical sociolinguistic inquiry and embodied practice. A TL theory of language asserts an activist agenda to dismantl...

World language programs in the US experience a myriad of equity issues. Some issues are a result of programmatic structures, while others are imposed on programs by the school, district, or state, or at the micro and macro levels. These equity issues became even more pronounced in light of the globa...