Volume 11 (2021) Socio-cultural and Educational Aspects of Multilingual Multicultural Learners and Communities
This special issue of JMER addresses the challenges of multilingual learners both in classrooms and in social settings. The socio-linguistic contact that underlies each study has become an inescapable aspect of our dynamic, multilingual/multicultural and global encounters. Each data-based paper investigates a particular aspect of second/foreign language acquisition and use, considering effective strategies for teachers and learners. This special issue includes papers that have evolved from presentations at the annual NABE Research and Evaluation Institute.Full Issue
Front Matter
Editorial
Socio-cultural and Educational Aspects of Multilingual Multicultural Learners and Communities
Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth
Articles on Theory and Research
Everybody Does It: The Pragmatics and Perceptions of International Chinese Graduate Students and their American Peers Regarding Gossip
Miriam Eisenstein Ebsworth, Timothy John Ebsworth, and Chencen Cai
Changing Worlds, Changing Classrooms: Satellite Children and their Teachers in the Transnational Era
Ming-Hsuan Wu and Sonna L. Opstad
Articles on Practice
Imagining Multimodal and Translanguaging Possibilities for Authentic Cultural Writing Experiences
Lucía Cárdenas Curiel and Christina M. Ponzio
Book/Multimedia Reviews
Visual Learning: A New path for JMER
Patricia Velasco
Education as Advocacy: The Foundations of Support for Immigrant Youth
Pamela D'Andrea Martínez
Notes
Invitation to Submit a Manuscript
Special Themed Issue: Multilingual Literature for Children and Adolescents
- Guest Editors
- Cecilia M. Espinosa, PhD, Lehman College/CUNY
- Juliet M. Luther, PhD, New York City Department of Education
- Patricia Velasco, Ed.D. Retired Professor, Queens College
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2022
Children’s and adolescent’s fiction and non-fiction literature offer opportunities to examine complex issues, reflect upon experiences past or current, and transform how an issue is understood as the reader critically explores it. The study of children’s and adolescents’ literature is the examination of a broad range of texts appropriate for children from birth to adolescence. It includes fiction and nonfiction, as well as poetry and prose. The variety of literature available for multilingual students is diverse and wide-ranging in topic and complexity.
