by Leah Shepard-Carey (Editor), Zhongfeng Tian (Editor)
By promoting and highlighting teacher-researcher partnerships as one avenue for improvement and transparency, the chapters in this book demonstrate the potential of translanguaging pedagogies in classrooms and further resist the linguistic hierarchies that exist in educational institutions today.
Author Biography
Leah Shepard-Carey is Assistant Professor of Graduate Studies in the School of Education at Drake University, USA. Her research explores multilingual pedagogies in English-medium settings, supporting critical language awareness and culturally-sustaining pedagogies in teacher education, and collaborative and design-based approaches to educational research.
Zhongfeng Tian is Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education at Rutgers University-Newark, USA. His research centers on working with pre- and in-service teachers to provide bi/multilingual students with equitable and inclusive learning environments in ESL and dual language immersion contexts. He is the co-editor of two books Envisioning TESOL through a Translanguaging Lens (Springer, 2020) and English-Medium Instruction and Translanguaging (Multilingual Matters, 2021).