Tension and Contention in Language Education for Latinxs in the United States: Experience and Ethics in Teaching and Learning

This book examines the tensions that Latinx students face in language education, highlighting the pedagogic and ethical urgency of teacher responsibility, learner agency, and social justice. It reframes language studies to consider power, inequality, and social settings, provoking dialogue between areas of language education and providing insights into contested spaces.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 212 pages
Publication date: 23 September 2019
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Applying a critical lens to language education, this comprehensive book delves into the complex tensions experienced by Latinx students in relation to their identities, social and institutional contexts, and various external factors. Spanning diverse settings, these students engage in profound debates and contestable affirmations that intersect with their lived experiences and social histories. Martinez and Train emphasize the pedagogical and ethical urgency of teachers assuming responsibility, fostering learner agency, and promoting social justice in critically addressing the consequences, constraints, and affordances of language education experienced by Latinx students within historically situated and institutionally defined spaces of practice, ideology, and policy.

By reframing language studies to encompass the roles of power, inequality, and social settings, this book fosters a dialogue between areas of language education that often remain separate. Through a privileging of the learner experience, the book offers a revealing window into the contested spaces within language education and opens up new avenues for engagement and action. With nuanced and insightful analyses, this book serves as a valuable resource for scholars, language researchers, language teacher educators, and graduate students across all areas of language education.

Weight: 330g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781138225121