1st Edition

Race, Culture, and Identities in Second Language Education Exploring Critically Engaged Practice

Edited By Ryuko Kubota, Angel M.Y. Lin Copyright 2009
336 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

The concept and construct of race is often implicitly yet profoundly connected to issues of culture and identity. Meeting an urgent need for empirical and conceptual research that specifically explores critical issues of race, culture, and identities in second language education, the key questions addressed in this groundbreaking volume are these: How are issues of race relevant to second... Read more

Preface

List of Contributors

Chapter 1: Race, Culture, and Identities in Second Language Education: Introduction to Research and Practice

Ryuko Kubota and Angel Lin

Part I: Interrogating Whiteness

Introduction

Chapter 2: Unpacking White Racial Identity in English Language Teacher Education

Tonda Liggett

Chapter 3: The Ideal English Speaker: A Juxtaposition of Globalization and Language Policy in South Korea and Racialized Language Attitudes in the United States

Rachel A. Grant and Incho Lee

Chapter 4: Construction of Racial Stereotypes in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Textbooks: Images as Discourse

Cosette Taylor-Mendes

Chapter 5: "It’s Not Them; It’s Not Their Fault": Manifestations of Racism in the Schooling of Latina/os and ELLs

Sherry Marx

Part II: Racializing Discourses and Identity Construction in Educational Settings

Introduction

Chapter 6: Uninhabitable identifications: Unpacking the Production of Racial Difference in a TESOL Classroom

Constance Ellwood

Chapter 7: Understanding the Racialized Identities of Asian Students in Predominantly White Schools

Lan Hue Quach, Ji-Yeon O. Jo, and Luis Urrieta, Jr.

Chapter 8: Classroom Positionings and Children’s Construction of Linguistic and Racial Identities in English-Dominant Classrooms

Laurie Katz & Ana Christina DaSilva Iddings

Chapter 9: Race and Technology in Teacher Education: Where is the Access?

Francis Bangou & Shelley Wong

Chapter 10: Operating Under Erasure: Race/Language/Identity

Awad Ibrahim

Part III: Toward a Dialectic of Critically Engaged Praxis

Introduction

Chapter 11: Colorblind Nonaccommodative Denial: Implications for Teachers’ Meaning Perspectives towards their Mexican American English Learners

Socorro Herrera and Amanda Rodriguez Morales

Chapter 12: Transforming the Curriculum of NNESTs: Introducing Critical Language Awareness (CLA) in a Teacher Education Program

Carmen Chacón

Chapter 13: Narratives in the Wild: Unpacking Critical Race Theory Methodology for Early Childhood Bilingual Education

Sara Michael-Luna

Chapter 14: Linguicism and Race in the United States: Impact on Teacher Education from Past to Present

Theresa Austin

Chapter 15: Un/Marked Pedagogies: A Dialogue on Race in EFL and ESL Settings

Eve Haque & Brian Morgan

Chapter 16: Race and Language as Capital in School: A Sociological Template for Language Education Reform

Allan Luke

Biography

Ryuko Kubota is Professor in the Department of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Angel Lin is Associate Professor in the Department of English, University of Hong Kong.

 

"…a pioneering collection of groundbreaking studies that interrogate how race operates overtly and covertly in contexts of second language learning." -- Angela Reyes, Hunter College, City University of New York