English Language Education in Rural Contexts

Paul Chamness Iida, Ph.D., was a Professor of English for Academic Purposes at Akita International University in Akita, Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University. Dr. Iida’s research interests included critical language studies, LGBTQ+ studies, and teacher education.Erin Mikulec, Ph.D., is a Professor at Illinois State University. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Helsinki in Finland and has taught English in Japan, Panama, and Vietnam. Her research interests include teacher education and international education.Mary Frances Agnello, Ph.D., is a Professor at Akita International University. She has researched and published topics surrounding political components of the literacy, language, and culture curricula recently under severe scrutiny in public schools and proposed critical and feminist literacy strategies to promote diverse student and educator success.

• ForewordMaria CoadyPrefaceErin MikulecIn Memoriam: Paul Chamness Iida—Scholar and Renaissance ManMary Frances AgnelloAbout the CoverList of Figures and TablesNotes on ContributorsIntroductionErin Mikulec and Mary Frances Agnello1 Training for Bilingual Programs: An Examination of Teachers’ Perceived Needs in Rural PolandPiotr Romanowski and Emilia Wąsikiewicz-Firlej2 Rural Primary English Education in Thailand: Policy, Structure, Practice, and Prospects for ReformMunchuree Kaosayapandhu3 Voices of Multilingual Immigrant Women in a Rural New York CommunityMonica A. Baker4 A Day in the Life of an English Teacher: Narratives from English Language Teachers in a Rural Primary School in ChinaDi Liang and Xingtan Cao5 First-Generation Somali Student Success in a Rural Two-Year College in the Upper Midwest of the United StatesLee E. Friederich6 The Reality of English Language Teaching and Learning at Rural Telesecundarias in MexicoArely Romero García and Leticia Araceli Salas Serrano7 Preparing English Language Teachers for Rural Education: Pedagogically Creative Responses to Online Language Teaching in China and IndonesiaCarla Meskill, Wuri P. Kusumastuti, Dongni Guo and Fang Wang8 The Imposition of Silence: An Examination of the Impact of the Urban-Rural Divide in English Language Teaching in BangladeshMd. Al Amin and Janinka Greenwood9 Georgia’s Bilingual Education and Impact on Rural Latino Dual Language LearnersMaribel Villegas Greene10 “They Never Had a School Trip”: English Education at a Rural Secondary School in Northwestern ChinaJing Yixuan, Dai Changzhi and Jing Zhiyuan11 English Language Teaching in Bilingual Pesantren in Indonesia: From Native Speakerisms to Transformative MediocrityIrham Irham12 Disrupting Discipline Based Learning: Integrating English and Programming EducationFlorent Domenach, Naoko Araki and Mary Frances AgnelloIndex