Advocacy in English Language Teaching and Learning

Description

Appropriate for those new to the topic and established scholars this holistic text examines the nexus of advocacy and English-language teaching beginning with theories of advocacy covering constraints and challenges in practice and offering a range of hands-on perspectives in different contexts and with different populations. Bringing together wide-ranging and diverse viewpoints in TESOL this volume examines the role of advocacy through a social justice lens in a range of contexts including K-12 classrooms and schools adult and higher education settings families and communities and teacher-education programs and professional organizations. Advocacy in English Language Teaching and Learning offers readers a deeper understanding of what advocacy is and can be and gives teacher candidates and educators the tools to advocate for their students their families and communities and their profession.