Bilingual Learners and Social Equity

Download or read book Bilingual Learners and Social Equity written by Ruth Harman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores how educators conceptualized and implemented critical approaches to systemic functional linguistics that support bilingual students in appropriating and challenging dominant knowledge domains in K-16 contexts. The researchers exhibit a shared commitment to enacting a culturally sustaining SFL praxis that validates multilingual meaning making, pushes against social inequity, and fosters creative re-mixing of available semiotic resources. It should prove a valuable resource for students, teachers and researchers interested in applied linguistics, education and critical theory.