Beyond Language Learning Instruction: Transformative Supports for Emergent Bilinguals and Educators: Transformative Supports for Emergent Bilinguals and Educators

Slapac, Alina · Coppersmith, Sarah A.

Nov 2019 · IGI Global

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Educators all over the world are being challenged to provide effective instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse learners and immigrant communities while valuing and celebrating students’ cultural backgrounds. This task requires training, professional development, cultural sensitivity, and responsibility to promote positive outcomes.

Beyond Language Learning Instruction: Transformative Supports for Emergent Bilinguals and Educators is a critical research publication that bridges linguistics theory and practice and comprehensively addresses all fundamentals of linguistics through the English language learning lens. Featuring topics such as curriculum design, immigrant students, and professional development, this book is essential for educators, academicians, administrators, curriculum designers, instructional designers, researchers, policymakers, and students.

About the author

Alina Slapac is an associate professor of action research, and curriculum and instruction in the College of Education, Department of Educator Preparation & Leadership at the University of Missouri-St. Louis (UMSL), USA. Her research interests include teacher preparation and development with focus on virtual exchange (VE) contexts through the social justice lens, internationalization of teacher education and global citizenship education, (participatory) action research, culturally and linguistically responsive teaching (culture as strength), and transformative pedagogy. She has been collaborating with educators from China, Norway, Romania, Spain, South Africa, South Korea and USA on research and teaching, including Collaborative International Learning (COIL) partnerships. She has also received three prestigious university teaching awards: Governor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (UMSL, 2022), The Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching (UMSL, 2020) and Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award (UMSL, 2013). Dr. Slapac has been an UMSL Global Fellow and an UMSL Inquiry Circles Fellow on global competency. Among numerous journal articles and book chapters, she also co-edited two books: Handbook of Research on the Global Empowerment of Educators and Student Learning through Action Research (Slapac, Balcerzak & O’Brien, 2021) and Beyond Language Learning Instruction: Transformative Supports for Emergent Bilinguals and Educators (Slapac & Coppersmith, 2019) (IGI Global). She currently serves as the Vice-Chair for Internationalization of Teacher Education TAG (Topic Action Group) through the American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education (ACCTE).

Sarah A. Coppersmith most recently has been an Assistant Research Professor in the University of Missouri, St. Louis (UMSL) College of Education and an Adjunct Instructor of Geography in the Humanities Division at Lindenwood University, St. Charles, Missouri. She is currently a Fellow in the Inquiry Circle Program on global competency (Longview Foundation, UMSL Global, and UMSL College of Education, 2019-2020). Her recent research includes a focus on in-service and pre-service teachers’ application of linguistically and culturally responsive teaching practices with English learners; stress, self-efficacy, and inquiry learning with pre-service teachers; explorations of inquiry learning in the Fur Trade Era in the Mid-Mississippi Valley in an International Baccalaureate Language Immersion setting, and moral agency beliefs of undergraduates studying World Regional Geography. [Editor]

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