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Drawing on Hong Kong's rather limited and homogeneous sexuality education background which tend to suppress "sensitive" and "controversial" topics (Wong, 2000; Ho and Tsang, 2002), this paper explores the potential challenges that social workers and transgender individuals have when having transgend...

In  2021, the Interagency Language Roundtable revised its Skill Level Descriptions for Proficiency to focus on ability rather than traits (Purpura, 2016) and move toward measuring effective communication, focusing more on task, meaning, and contextual appropriateness. Efforts were made to remov...

Researchers and educators have strived to examine how everyday practices, interactions, and texts help (re)produce or problematize structural inequalities. Referred to as critical pedagogy, this philosophy of education, however, has been criticized for its assumed universality; there has been disapp...

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At a public, land grant University in the northeast in the United States, we are revising our language teacher education curriculum to align with Community-Engaged, Anti-Racist (CEAR) Pedagogy. In this presentation, we share the CEAR principles and practices guiding our framework, our process as we ...

Dual language (DL) education is an approach that promotes grade-level academic achievement, bilingualism and biliteracy, and sociocultural competence (SCC) to integrated groups of students through content-language integrated instruction. Although it makes sense that SCC is important for students' we...

Through this submitted contribution, we present the recent NARRANDO project from which we aim to gain a better understanding of the transversal mobilization and discursive integration of lexical, syntactic and macro-syntactic, prosodic, and bodily resources of Spanish storytelling in talk-in-interac...

Presentation and argument are in English

This paper draws on my ongoing ethnographic work conducted since 2019 in London (U.K.) that documents homeless individuals' interconnected networks and engagement in street businesses and livelihood strategies. In my fieldwork, my participants shared their fatigue about being constantly approached b...

The Ibero-American Association of Applied Linguists (AIALA, by its abbreviations in both Spanish and Portuguese), a regional organization of AILA launched in 2020, exists to support and amplify Spanish, Portuguese, and affiliated minoritized and indigenous languages, both in supporting applied lingu...

Previous research on deaf late learners suggests that these individuals' language learning takes a different path that seems more similar to that of child L1 learners regarding syntactic development (e.g., Cheng & Mayberry, 2019). However, we do not know about these learners' syntactic productio...

English as a medium of instruction has been dıscussed by many e.g. Macaro (2018). Benefits claimed for EMİ include that it assists global communication, fosters social cohesion and tolerance in a world where everyone can understand each other, promotes international mobility, provides access to em...