Originally published as a special issue of the journal Theory into Practice, this text examines innovative practices and research relating to Dual Language Education (DLE) in the US.

Pablo C. Ramírez is Associate Professor in the Division of Teacher Education, at California State University Dominguez Hills, US.

Christian J. Faltis is Professor of Bilingual Education in the Department of Teaching and Learning at the Ohio State University, US

PART I: Dual Language Teacher Preparation and Pedagogy

1. Dual Language Education in the US: Rethinking Pedagogy, Curricula, and Teacher Education to Support Dual Language Learning for All

Pablo C. Ramírez and Christian J. Faltis

2. Preparing Critically Conscious Dual Language Teachers: Recognizing and Interrupting Dominant Ideologies

Cristina Alfaro

3. The Development of Culturally Proficient Global Dual Language Teachers

and Teacher Education Programs: Moving Beyond Mandates

Reyes Quezada and Vivian Alexandrowicz

4. Bilingualism, Biliteracy, Biculturalism, and Critical Consciousness for All:

Proposing a Fourth Fundamental Goal for Two-Way Dual Language Education

Deborah Palmer, Claudia Cervantes-Soon, and Daniel Dornier-Heiman

PART II: Dual Language Education and Critical Consciousness

5. Multilingualism as a Resource Orientation in Dual Language Education

Ester de Jong, Tuba Yilmaz, and Nidza Marichal

6. Challenging Damaging Ideologies: Are Dual Language Education Practices Addressing Learners' Linguistic Rights?

María E. Fránquiz, María G. Leija and Cinthia S. Salina

7. The Problems and Possibilities:

Zitlali Moralez and Maravilla

PART III: The Intersection of Dual Language Education and Social Justice

8. Dual Languaging as Strategy and Translanguaging as Tactic in Two-Way

Dual Language Programs

Jessica Summerville- Braun and Christian J. Faltis

9. The expansion of dual language bilingual education into new communities

and languages: The case of Hebrew in a New York City public middle school

Sharon Avni and Kate Menken

10. Secondary Dual Language Learners and Emerging Pedagogies: The

Intersectionality of Language, Culture and Community

Pablo C. Ramírez

11. Diverse Perspectives in Dual Language Education

Pablo C. Ramírez and Christian J. Faltis