Educators all over the world are being challenged to provide effective instruction for culturally and linguistically diverse learners and immigrant communities while valuing and celebrating students’ cultural backgrounds. This task requires training, professional development, cultural sensitivity, and responsibility to promote positive outcomes.

Beyond Language Learning Instruction: Transformative Supports for Emergent Bilinguals and Educators is a critical research publication that bridges linguistics theory and practice and comprehensively addresses all fundamentals of linguistics through the English language learning lens. Featuring topics such as curriculum design, immigrant students, and professional development, this book is essential for educators, academicians, administrators, curriculum designers, instructional designers, researchers, policymakers, and students.

Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
•Assessment
•Content and Language Learning
•Curriculum Design
•Emergent Bilinguals
•Immigrant Communities
•In-service and Pre-service Teacher Education
•Intercultural Competence
•Linguistic Development and Resources
•Linguistically and Culturally Responsive Teaching
•Migrant, Immigrant, Refugee, and Newcomer Students
•Pedagogy
•Professional Development
•Transformative Leadership
•Translanguaging Practices