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.

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.

Part I: Overview of Advocacy 1. Advocacy Skills for Teachers: "A Real Careful Little Dance" 2. Problematizing Advocacy: Definitions, Alignments, and Expansions Part II: Preparing Teacher Advocates 3. Beyond the Philosophy Statement: Bringing Advocacy Center Stage in TESOL Teacher Education 4. Building Advocacy Capacity in a Teacher Training Program 5. Cultivating a Sense of Critical Consciousness in Teacher Candidates within a Community-Based Adult ESL Program 6. Action Research for Advocacy in a Supervised Teaching Seminar Part III: Advocacy in Action 7. Exploring Advocacy in an Elementary ESL Afterschool Program in the United States: Empirically, What's There? 8. Language Advocate Alliances: Families and Educators United to Support English 9. Moving Away from the Margins: Publication of International Voices as a Tool for Advocacy 10. Action Required: The Adult Educator as Activist 11. A Framework for Asset-focused Advocacy in Adult ESL Education 12. Making the Path by Walking Together: A Collaborative Approach to Advocacy Part IV: Advocating with Specific EL Populations 13. Advocating for Indigenous Hispanic EL Students: Promoting the Indigenismo Within 14. A Mother's Advocacy: Lessons for Educators of Long-term EL Students 15. From Majority to Minority: Advocating for English Learners from the African Diaspora