Huili Hong - Böcker

This textbook equips pre-service educators with the tools they need to empower multilingual learners, their families, and communities; promote educational equity; and advocate for the rights of multilingual learners in increasingly complex sociopolitical settings. Featuring contributions from researchers, in-service teachers, pre-service teachers, and community leaders, the book offers expansive and diverse perspectives on the challenges and solutions related to multilingual learners in a myriad of educational contexts and environments. The book goes beyond traditional classroom strategies to cultivate all participants’ active agency and incorporate advocacy for both teachers and multilingual learner students, exploring the intricate connections between praxis and community engagement in a comprehensive way. Addressing a wide array of increasingly common challenges, this thoughtful resource is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in teacher education and educational leadership preparation programs, as well as teacher researchers and school administrators.

This textbook equips pre-service educators with the tools they need to empower multilingual learners, their families, and communities; promote educational equity; and advocate for the rights of multilingual learners in increasingly complex sociopolitical settings. Featuring contributions from researchers, in-service teachers, pre-service teachers, and community leaders, the book offers expansive and diverse perspectives on the challenges and solutions related to multilingual learners in a myriad of educational contexts and environments. The book goes beyond traditional classroom strategies to cultivate all participants’ active agency and incorporate advocacy for both teachers and multilingual learner students, exploring the intricate connections between praxis and community engagement in a comprehensive way. Addressing a wide array of increasingly common challenges, this thoughtful resource is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students in teacher education and educational leadership preparation programs, as well as teacher researchers and school administrators.

Building on recent scholarship in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and social practice theories, this book reconceptualizes reading comprehension as intertextual practices.Rather than view reading comprehension as the interaction of a reader and a text, the book outlines reading comprehension as a set of dynamic social practices enacted by people in and across social events in which they together build and assign meaning to one or more written language texts. The interactive meaning-building process is inherently intertextual as people act and react to each other, propose connections among multiple texts, and reflect and refract social practices, histories, and ideologies. The theorizing in this book is oriented to generating new images and metaphors to imagine ‘reading comprehension’ differently. The reconceptualization also derives from using jazz as a metaphor for reading comprehension.This is a key resource for scholars, graduate students, and teachers in reading and literacy education.

Building on recent scholarship in sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, and social practice theories, this book reconceptualizes reading comprehension as intertextual practices.Rather than view reading comprehension as the interaction of a reader and a text, the book outlines reading comprehension as a set of dynamic social practices enacted by people in and across social events in which they together build and assign meaning to one or more written language texts. The interactive meaning-building process is inherently intertextual as people act and react to each other, propose connections among multiple texts, and reflect and refract social practices, histories, and ideologies. The theorizing in this book is oriented to generating new images and metaphors to imagine ‘reading comprehension’ differently. The reconceptualization also derives from using jazz as a metaphor for reading comprehension.This is a key resource for scholars, graduate students, and teachers in reading and literacy education.

Multilingual learners (MLs) students spend most of their school time with their teachers, who often feel professionally unprepared to meet their linguistically diverse students' needs.