1st Edition

Educating Emergent Bilingual Youth in High School The Promise of Critical Language and Literacy Education

By Jie Y. Park Copyright 2023
218 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book revolves around educating recently arrived immigrant youth in the United States who are emergent bilinguals. Drawing on a seven-year research collaboration with three ESL teachers in an urban secondary school in the United States, it addresses questions around taking a critical approach to language and literacy education, including what this looks like in everyday practice and what... Read more

1. The Foundation and Framework: Critical Approaches to Language and Literacy Education  2. The Context: The ESL Classroom, Teachers, and Emergent Bilingual Youth at Community Middle and High  3. Critical Multilingual Pedagogies in Action: From Principles to Practice  4. Who is American? What is Race?: Dialogic Problem-Posing for Emergent Bilinguals  5. Found in Translation: Discovering Language, Meaning, Self, and Worlds in Poetry Translation  6. Seeing (through) Multimodal Texts: Graphic Novels and Documentaries in Critical Multilingual Education (with Lori Simpson)  7. "The History Behind Our Language": Youth Research on Language (with Lori Simpson)  8. From the Margins to Power: The Promise of Critical Language and Literacy Education

Biography

Jie Y. Park is Associate Professor of Education at Clark University, USA.