When We Hear Them

Attuning Teachers to Language-Diverse Learners

Owen Silverman Andrews, Antione D. Tomlin

• Publisher: Information Age Publishing
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9798887306797
  9798887306803
• eBook ISBN:
  9798887306810
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Theory & Practice

This book puts forward practical tools and applicable theories for enhancing the listening skills and pedagogical approaches of teachers and educators in the context of language-minoritized and multilingual learners. What does it mean for us to really hear them? How can we more fully facilitate inviting, celebratory, and sustaining learning spaces? What listening skills should the faculty who prepare pre-service teachers for linguistically diverse classrooms impart? By asking these questions, we seek to upend deficit models of language learning and usage in order to attune practitioner-scholars to the powerful voices of language-diverse students in our classrooms, schools, and communities. This book is organized into three parts to help practitioner-scholars explore the space where theory meets practice to amplify the voices of languageminoritized learners.

Table of contents

• Cover
• When We Hear Them
• Research, Theory, and Practice Within Academic Affairs
• When We Hear Them: Attuning Teachers to Language-Diverse Learners
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• FOREWORD: LISTENING AS A (DE)COLONIAL PROCESS
• INTRODUCTION: SHIFTING POWER THROUGH ATTUNEMENT
• I. THEORIES OF LISTENING TO MULTILINGUAL STUDENTS
• II. METHODS OF LISTENING TO MULTILINGUAL STUDENTS
• III. ATTUNING PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS TO MULTILINGUAL STUDENTS
• CODA: FROM AIRPORT TO DOLLAR STORE
• ABOUT THE EDITORS
• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS