Social Justice Challenges of “Teaching” Languages

This essay explores the challenges to linguistic justice resulting from widely held negative perspectives on the English of young Latinx bi/multilinguals and from common misunderstandings of individuals who use resources from two communicative systems in their everyday lives. I highlight the effects of these misunderstandings on Long-Term English Learners as they engage with the formal teaching of English. I specifically problematize language instruction as it takes place in classrooms and the impact of the curricularization of language as it is experienced by minoritized students who “study” language qua language in instructed settings

Communicative language teaching · Economic Justice · Language education · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Political science · Social justice · Social science · Sociology · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Law · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching

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