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Language teaching and intercultural education: making critical connections

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The authors argue that language teaching is embedded within sociocultural practices and shaped by attitudes toward bilingualism and native vs. nonnative speaker status, and encourage teachers of languages and culture to conceptualize their work as deeply connected to social, economic, cultural, and political activities.
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This essay explores some of the areas in which language teaching and intercultural education overlap. We position language teaching as embedded within sociocultural practices and shaped by attitudes toward bilingualism and native vs. nonnative speaker status. Specifically, we question language practices that exclude or downplay the benefits of developing students’ heritage languages while learning additional languages, and we offer and challenge narrow perceptions of language ownership and native speaker identity. We urge teachers of languages and culture to conceptualize their work as deeply connected to social, economic, cultural, and political activities.

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English with an accent: language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States

TL;DR: The second edition of Lippi-Green's book, English with an accent: Language, ideology, and discrimination in the United States, continues the conversation from her 1997 first edition regardin...
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Translation as a pedagogical tool in the foreign language classroom: A qualitative study of attitudes and behaviours:

TL;DR: This article explored the question of whether this negativity is reflected in the attitudes and behaviours of university lecturers engaged in language teaching as well as to consider the background and contextual factors associated with these attitudes and behaviors.
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Using a shared L1 to reduce cognitive overload and anxiety levels in the L2 classroom

TL;DR: In this article, the attitudes and behaviours of university lecturers and their students regarding the use of the L1 in the higher education L2 classroom were investigated and qualitative interviews conducted with six lecturers in Japanese and six in German were conducted.
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Developing intercultural competence in English language teachers : towards building intercultural language education in Colombia

TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative exploratory, constructivist study was conducted to investigate Colombian English language teachers' existing or prospective intercultural communicative competence (ICC) to understand their teaching profiles and then to be able to build upon them.
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Ethnic diversity and schooling in national education systems—Issues of policy and identity

TL;DR: For instance, the ease with which immigrants can apply for and receive permanent residence and citizenship status in Ireland, Greece, Ireland, the Netherlands, Canada, United States and Malaysia has been studied in this article.
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The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children

TL;DR: The New Edition of the New Edition as mentioned in this paper is a collection of essays about culture and its relationship with the New World. 1. A Dream Deferred. 2. Seeing Color, Seeing Culture. 3. We Are Family. 4. The Tree of Knowledge. 5. Culturally Relevant Teaching. 6. Making Dreams into Reality. 7. Discussion Questions.
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Language, Power And Pedagogy: Bilingual Children in the Crossfire

Jim Cummins
TL;DR: This paper revisited research, theory and policy in bilingual education - evaluating the credibility of empirical data challenging the discourse of disempowerment through critical dialogue transformative pedagogy, and the nature of language proficiency: language proficiency in academic contexts.
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The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children

TL;DR: The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African American Children by Gloria Ladson-Billings as mentioned in this paper is a popular book for African American children. 187 pp. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers
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English with an Accent: Language, Ideology and Discrimination in the United States

TL;DR: The Shadow of Language Glossary as mentioned in this paper is a collection of glossaries about the history of racism in the United States and its relationship to the use of language in the educational system.
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Translanguaging in the Bilingual Classroom: A Pedagogy for Learning and Teaching?.

TL;DR: The authors argue for a release from monolingual instructional approaches and advocate teaching bilingual children by means of bilingual instructional strategies, in which two or more languages are used alongside each other, and they take a language ecology perspective and seek to describe the interdependence of skills and knowledge across languages.
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