Since the late 1990s, as a response to the General Law of Education (1994), the Colombian
Ministry of Education has launched several versions of a national bilingualism policy to …

This chapter will introduce a pedagogical framework to engage with literacy practices in
early childhood contexts and English language learners (ELLs), based on the …

Is there such a thing as a monolingual city? That question drove the inquiry and analysis
reported here of English as a language and semiotic resource in physical spaces in the city …

This article documents the current research efforts of a research team at a Colombian
university to explore the new forms of literacies in second languages in the city. The different …

This year's conference theme was a collective invitation to face how we, as a literacy
research collective, may have played a role in marginalization and disenfranchisement and …

This article, relying on a series of epiphanies throughout my journey as a researcher and
scholar-activist, shares my relationship with criticality and how it has guided my research …

In Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare (1597/1900: 1892) wrote,'What's in a name? That
which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet'. Although the Bard's …

This is a collection of international papers on the roles that humour can play in education. It
brings together authors from Australia, Canada, Colombia, the USA, and the UK …

There are growing populations of Korean children who studied abroad in the English as a
second language (ESL) context and had to return to Korea for various reasons before …

An International Perspective fessor in Bangladesh with whom I have connected through
social media, and Phillip, a professor in the United States with links to Tanzania. He also …