Critical Storytelling

Luis Javier Pentón Herrera, Ph.D. (2018), Concordia University Chicago, is a Dissertation Core Faculty at the American College of Education. He has published monographs, book chapters, and articles about TESOL, Spanish, and immigrants in the United States. Ethan Tính Trịnh is a doctoral student at Georgia State University, focusing on the intersectionality of gender, race, and language education that embraces queerness as a healing teaching and research practice.

• ForewordGloria ParkPrefaceList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPART 1: POETRY1 Immigrant Background Students’ Names and Identities in U.S. Schools: Voices from the UndergroundLydiah Kananu Kiramba2 This Is Our Summons NowR. Joseph Rodríguez3 Gringo or Rican or Just MeGabriel Teodoro Acevedo Velázquez4 Spaces in BetweenSharada Krishnamurthy5 “¡Vamos Mijo, I Know You Can Do This!”Manuel De Jesús Gómez Portillo6 El Sacrificio de una Madre: A Mother’s SacrificeAna Bautista7 Domestic TonguesMauricio Patrón Rivera8 Mariposa: A Two-Part PoemZurisaray Espinosa9 BelovedJamie HarrisPART 2: Personal Narratives10 Subtle Bangla TraitsBen Haseen11 You Had Better Turn off the Fan: Communicative Competence in PracticeJiyoon Lee12 Como una Leona: Shielding My Son from Discrimination at SchoolAracelis Nieves13 Every Word Is True: An Autoethnography to Unravel My StoryBabak Khoshnevisan14 Quê HươngEthan Tính Trịnh15 I Lost My Language But Your Child Doesn’t Have ToMay F. Chung16 Pagbabalik: Does It Even Matter?Sandy Tadeo17 My Life’s Metamorphosis: Becoming BilingualLuis Javier Pentón Herrera18 Giving back When Most in NeedGeovanny Vicente Romero19 Journeying through Transnational Spaces: A Reflexive Account of Praxis and Identity ConstructionRajwan Alshareefy and Cristina Sánchez-Martín20 Story Weaving: Tejidos de Conocimientos Que Nos Conectan al TerritorioJudith Landeros21 Entre la Tierra y los SueñosPablo Montes22 The Power of Digital Storytelling for English Language Education: A Reflective EssayPolina Vinogradova23 Lost and Found: A Story of Reclaiming IdentitiesBashar Al Hariri and Fatmeh Alalawneh24 The Weight of a Name: My Names and Stories across Lands and TimeTairan Qiu