Martha Bigelow is Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota. Her research focuses on the language learning and cultural adaptation of immigrant youth in US schools. She is co-author of Literacy and Second Language Oracy, with Elaine Tarone and Kit Hansen, and author of Mogadishu on the Mississippi: Language, Racialized Identity and Education in a New Land.

Johanna Ennser-Kananen is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Boston University. Her research focuses on multilingualism, linguistic legitimacy, language ideologies, and culture learning in educational settings.

1. Methodologies of second language acquisition Susan M. Gass. 2. Ethnography in educational linguistics Teresa McCarty. 3. Methodologies of language policy research David Cassels Johnson and Thomas Ricento 4. Researching identity through narrative analysis Christina Higgins and Priti Sandhu 5. Language advocacy in teacher education and schooling Christian Faltis 6. Educational equity for linguistically marginalized students Anthony L. Liddicoat and Kathleen Heugh. 7. Is there a place for home literacies in the school curriculum? Pedagogic discourses and practices in the Brazilian educational context Elaine Rocha-Schmid 8. Non-native teachers and advocacy Enric Llurda 9. Established and emerging perspectives on immersion education Siv Björklund and Karita Mård-Miettinen 10. Bilingual education Ofelia García and Heather Homonoff Woodley 11. The intersections of language differences and learning disabilities: Narratives in action Taucia Gonzalez, Adai Tefera, and Alfredo Artiles 12. Theory and advocacy for indigenous language revitalization in the United States Mary Hermes and Megan Bang 13. Visual literacy and foreign language learning Carola Hecke. 14. When language is and not the issue: The case of "AAVE" literacy research, teaching and Labov's prescription for social (in)equality Elaine Richardson 15. Reframing Freire: Situating the principles of humanizing pedagogy within an ecological model for the preparation of teachers María del Carmen Salazar 16. Heritage language education Jennifer Leeman and Kendall King 17. Disentangling linguistic imperialism in English language education: The Indonesian context Setiono Sugiharto 18. Immigrants and education Lesley Bartlett and Jill Koyama 19. Critical pedagogy in classroom discourse Loukia K. Sarroub and Sabrina Quadros 20. Teachers' beliefs about language learning and teaching Sun Yung Song 21. Literacy debates in Chinese teacher education Helen Shen 22. Language teacher identity Jason Martel and Fang Wang 23. Corpus-based study of language and teacher education Alex Boulton and Henry Tyne 24. Analyzing learner language Sachiko Horii 25. Primary language use in foreign language classrooms Jennifer Dailey-O'Cain and Grit Liebscher 26. Language assessment in the educational context Dina Tsagari and Jayanti Banerjee 27. Analyzing classroom language in CLIL Do Coyle 28. Heritage language education in the US: The Chinese case Yun Xiao 29. Learner language Sisko Brunni and Jarmo H. Jantunen 30. "Who gets to say?" Political and ethical dilemmas for researchers in educational linguistics Kristen H. Perry and Christine A. Mallozzi 31. Education and language shift Leanne Hinton 32. Looking back, sideways, and forward: Language and education in multilingual settings María E. Torres-Guzmán and Ester J. de Jong 33. Addressing dialect variation in US K-12 schools Julie Sweetland and Rebecca Wheeler

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