"Building Classroom Culture Through Translanguaging: Theory to Practice" is a comprehensive guide for educators who want to create inclusive and effective classrooms that celebrate the diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds of their students. It introduces the concept of translanguaging, a pedagogy that moves beyond traditional…

Teacher education for early childhood education in Papua New Guinea (PNG) has been minimal in the past and this paper reports on workshops in which both quality mathematics education and computers were introduced to teachers in remote areas of PNG. With a lack of funding and time, the logistics of holding the workshops are noted. There were some…

This article explores how "puntos y rayas" (full stops and lines) function as symbolic and structural barriers in education for language-minoritized students. Through autobiographical reflection and classroom cases, the authors show how rigid boundaries around standardized language and raciolinguistic ideologies marginalize students and…

On the standard picture, membership in the set of utterances "academic speech" is both necessary and sufficient for an utterance to enjoy the protections of academic freedom. In this article, I challenge the sufficiency claim by showing that there are significant epistemic and pedagogical benefits to be had by delineating a class of…

A diverse array of families navigate society in current times, yet despite increasing visibility of this diversity within schooling contexts, notions of family as nuclear continue to be (re)produced in these spaces. While this has implications for all children and their families, for gender and sexuality diverse parented families, this state of…

This paper examines discourses that place refugee students in an inequitable position in school. Focussing on decontextualisation -- a depoliticising way of seeing education that overlooks contexts -- the paper is based on semi-structured interviews with teachers (n = 15) and open questions of a survey data (n = 267) collected from teachers,…

Measuring study-abroad (SA) students' intercultural communicative competence (ICC) has been a challenging task. Simply comparing pre- and post-SA language proficiency test results may not capture the full extent of ICC development. This study explores the behavioral dimension of ICC among SA students by examining changes in Japanese speech style…

Within higher education, the popularity of generative artificial intelligence (AI) has led many administrators and faculty to stress the need for policies regarding its use. However, given its relative novelty, it is unclear how instructors create and communicate such policies to students, in terms of both content and style. We present a detailed…

The distinction between "academic language" and its putative "conversational" or "everyday" counterpart continues to be used by some researchers, teacher educators, and practitioners to explain challenges faced by linguistically minoritized students in primary and secondary schools, in the United States and elsewhere.…

In Indigenous language contexts where many adults are not fluent speakers, adult learners play a key role in the restoration of intergenerational transmission. Adult learner narratives of at-home immersion in particular offers an important window into Indigenous language revitalization. In this paper we, two adult Anishinaabemowin learners,…

In second language (L2) research, aptitude is typically viewed as a multicomponential, cognitive construct. Yet we know that L2 learning is influenced by multiple learner individual differences (IDs) besides cognitive abilities and that these IDs interact. In this article, we consider the affordances and implications of working toward a broader…

This classroom-based exploratory study examined the relationships between affective, social, and cognitive aspects of second language (L2) learners' task-based performance. In responding to practical challenges when TBLT is implemented in the real-world context, we collected observational data from multiple sources. In the study, 96 high-school…

The language, in the most basic sense, is a means of communication among people. Since the proper and effective use of people's native language will shape the whole life of an individual, individuals are expected to have native language awareness. There is a strong bilateral relationship between the effective use of native language and native…

Land acknowledgements have become almost ubiquitous in post-secondary education settings in Canada. However, the origins and widespread popularity of these practices has gone largely unexamined. In this article, the literature on land acknowledgement practices in Canada is reviewed, focusing in particular on the growing criticisms of these…

The article is mainly concerned with philosophical interpretations of Astrid Lindgren's Karlson books. Inspired by Gaare and Sjaastad's reading of Pippi Longstocking, the article discusses the philosophical ideas embedded in Lindgren's books about Pippi Longstocking, stressing, in particular, Lindgren's implicit critique of Western culture. Next,…