Leveraging is often described as the process of using the home and community languages
of children and youth as a tool to access the “academic” or “standard” varieties of languages …

This article provides a critical review of the interdisciplinary literature on child language
brokering (CLB), employing a Bakhtinian translinguistic perspective. The extant literature …

In this article, I argue that English educators must interrogate acts of physical and linguistic
violence against Black and Latinx youth and take them into consideration when sha** …

The definitions of “academic language” available to teachers and teacher educators often
invoke generalized assumptions about the supposed gap between complex, discipline …

This research provides an insight into how deficit perspectives about everyday language
practices can be challenged and offers possibilities for both enhancing classroom teaching …

Mi Padre centers on the promise of parent involvement practices that build upon the range of
linguistic and sociocultural resources that Latin@ immigrant students and their families bring …

Drawing from an ethnographic study on Mexican immigrant fathers and their second-grade
children, this article examines the masked realities behind current immigration policies that …

This manuscript draws from a 2-year multiple-case ethnography on the educational
experiences of Mexican immigrant families with California middle schools. The article …

This study aims to examine the existing attitudes and practices of translanguaging, the use
of the students' native language in the English language classroom, by 19 English language …

With a burgeoning US population of emergent bilingual learners and others who use
nondominant language forms, the need for language knowledge among teachers is acute …