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Voices without Words: Doing Critical Literate Talk in English as a Second Language
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Luk, Jasmine; Lin, Angel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2015
Critical thinking is believed to be an essential skill for 21st century survival and therefore has been widely promoted in education. In Hong Kong, critical thinking is one of nine generic skills to be developed across all subjects, including English. How students do critical thinking in ESL, which is seldom used outside school and yet holds high…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Secondary School Students
"Non-Coercive Rearrangements": Theorizing Desire in TESOL
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Motha, Suhanthie; Lin, Angel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2014
In this article, the authors argue that at the center of every English language learning moment lies desire: desire for the language; for the identities that English represents; for capital, power, and images that are associated with English; for what is believed to lie beyond the doors that English unlocks. However, despite its centrality within…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Language Teachers
Toward Paradigmatic Change in TESOL Methodologies: Building Plurilingual Pedagogies from the Ground Up
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Lin, Angel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2013
Contemporary TESOL methodologies have been characterized by compartmentalization of languages in the classroom. However, recent years have seen the beginning signs of paradigmatic change in TESOL methodologies that indicate a move toward plurilingualism. In this article, the author draws on the case of Hong Kong to illustrate how, in the past four…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Teaching Methods
Race and TESOL: Introduction to Concepts and Theories
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Kubota, Ryuko; Lin, Angel – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2006
The field of teaching English to speakers of other languages (TESOL) brings people from various racialized backgrounds together in teaching, learning, and research. The idea of race, racialization, and racism are inescapable topics that arise in the contact zones created by teaching English worldwide and thus are valid topics to explore in the…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, English (Second Language), Race, Racial Bias