Abstracts Archive

Narratives from English teachers at Japanese schools suggested that they realized that pre-service trainings at their universities had been based predominantly on value and concepts from West and difficult to fit to their classroom. The presentation will discuss strategies to overcome the problem be...

This paper examines the possible pathways, processes, and practices to decolonize and transform the language teacher education curriculum through community-engaged programs and partnerships. In this presentation, we report on a qualitative case study that explores the reported experiences, processes...

In this study I discuss how 15 world language teachers and teacher candidates negotiated the concept of translanguaging in an online Educational Linguistics class. Using Seltzer's (2022) critical translingual stance with Ruiz's (1984) language orientations and Peña-Pincheira and De Costa's (2020) e...

The presentation shares a personal inquiry, as a language teacher educator of the Global North, to decolonize a short-term English language teacher education program with the intent to empower teacher candidates from the Global South. Among many layers of modification, this presentation focuses on t...