Full Description
This edited volume takes an expansive, no-nonsense view of the spectrum of English language learners to address their varied backgrounds and their wide range of needs, worries, motivations, and abilities. Each chapter addresses a key area and group of students to enable English language teachers to come away with the knowledge and skills they need to support their students. The contributors, who represent a diverse range of voices themselves, cover essential topics, including dyslexia, neurodiversity, linguistic inclusion, deaf students, LGBTQI+ students, racial and cultural inclusion, and more.
Accessible and grounded in cutting-edge research, this book features key concepts, methodologies, and strategies that will encourage reflection and inclusive pedagogy. An invaluable resource for students, researchers, and professionals, this volume demonstrates how English language education can be a force for transformative change and social inclusion.
Contents
Introduction 1. Trouble and Care in the English language classroom Part 1: Inclusive language 2. An inclusive approach to teaching English to deaf adult learners 3. Inclusion in foreign language education: Using translingual scaffolding to support vocabulary learning in primary school 4. Traditional stories in ELT: Translingual practice for inclusive writing and digital skills instruction Part 2: Inclusive teaching 5. 'You don't want to lose anyone, you don't want anyone falling behind': Online ESOL, inclusion and accessibility in the UK 6. LGBTQI+ Sexualities and a Diversity-Focused Approach in English for Academic Purposes 7. Developing senior learners' autonomy in second language learning Part 3: Teaching inclusion 8. How to talk about race in the English language classroom 9. English language learners dealing with trauma: developing ESL teachers' knowledge, attitudes, and skills 10. Accommodating learners with SpLDs in the language classroom: Problems and solutions
