Advocacy in English Language Teaching and Learning

Appropriate for those new to the topic and established scholars, this holistic text examines the nexus of advocacy and English-language teaching, beginning with theories of advocacy, covering constraints and challenges in practice, and offering a range of hands-on perspectives in different contexts and with different populations. Bringing together wide-ranging and diverse viewpoints in TESOL, this volume examines the role of advocacy through a social justice lens in a range of contexts, including K-12 classrooms and schools, adult and higher education settings, families and communities, and teacher-education programs and professional organizations. Advocacy in English Language Teaching and Learning offers readers a deeper understanding of what advocacy is and can be, and gives teacher candidates and educators the tools to advocate for their students, their families and communities, and their profession.

Part I: Overview of Advocacy 1. Advocacy Skills for Teachers: "A Real Careful Little Dance", Heather A. Linville 2. Problematizing Advocacy: Definitions, Alignments, and Expansions, Jamie Harrison and Josephine Prado Part II: Preparing Teacher Advocates 3. Beyond the Philosophy Statement: Bringing Advocacy Center Stage in TESOL Teacher Education, James Whiting 4. Building Advocacy Capacity in a Teacher Training Program, Jamie Harrison 5. Cultivating a Sense of Critical Consciousness in Teacher Candidates within a Community-Based Adult ESL Program, Sarina Chugani Molina 6. Action Research for Advocacy in a Supervised Teaching Seminar, Carly Huelsenbeck, Laura Baecher, and Diane Staehr Fenner Part III: Advocacy in Action 7. Exploring Advocacy in an Elementary ESL Afterschool Program in the United States: Empirically, What's There? Jackie Ridley, Nicole King, Esther Hye-min Yoon, and Youngjoo Yi 8. Language Advocate Alliances: Families and Educators United to Support English, Lorena Mancilla and Alissa Blair 9. Moving Away from the Margins: Publication of International Voices as a Tool for Advocacy, Kristin Roberts-Raymond, Denise Desrosiers, Andrea Paquin, and Carolyn Hutton 10. Action Required: The Adult Educator as Activist, Rob Sheppard 11. A Framework for Asset-focused Advocacy in Adult ESL Education, Deborah Kennedy 12. Making the Path by Walking Together: A Collaborative Approach to Advocacy, Sarah Hesson and Rachel Toncelli Part IV: Advocating with Specific EL Populations 13. Advocating for Indigenous Hispanic EL Students: Promoting the Indigenismo Within, Luis Javier Pentón Herrera 14. A Mother’s Advocacy: Lessons for Educators of Long-term EL Students, Maneka Deanna Brooks 15. From Majority to Minority: Advocating for English Learners from the African Diaspora, Kisha C. Bryan, Ayanna Cooper, and Babatunji Ifarinu

Heather A. Linville is Associate Professor and Director of TESOL at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse, USA. James Whiting is Professor of Applied Linguistics and Coordinator of the graduate TESOL program at Plymouth State University, USA.