Pursuing Language and Metalinguistics in K-12 Classrooms

Section I: Critical Metalinguistics, Engagement, and Pursuing Language Introduction (Jones & Proctor) 1. Critical Metalinguistics (Jones & Proctor) 2. Engagement Pedagogies (Jones & Proctor) 3. Pursuing Language (Jones & Proctor) Section II: Teacher Practice and Curriculum 4. Critical Metalinguistic Engagement of Black Language Users in Writing Instruction (Hankerson, Martin, Hudley, and Mallinson) 5. Becoming a Writer: Developing Writerly Knowledge and Authorial Agency (Chen, Newman, Myhill) 6. Fostering Metalinguistic Engagement Through Text-Based Dialogic Talk (Al-Adeimi and Baumann) Section III: Understanding Student Engagement 7. Critical Metalinguistic Engagement and the Role of Listening in Poetry Inside Out (Park and Michaels) 8. Learning to Notice: Supporting Educators of Plurilingual Learners to Notice, Name, and Scaffold Metalanguaging in the Middle-Grade Classroom (Galloway, White, and Jimenez) 9. On Problem Scoping in Engineering Design: Notes about Language Practices of Multicompetent Learners (Perez and Marvez) Section IV: Teacher Education and Policy 10. Scenarios as an Instructional Approach: Prospective Teachers' Metalinguistic Reflections about Teaching Mathematics to English Learners (Albert and Son) 11. Best Practices for Whom?: Multilingual and Critical Perspectives on the Teaching of Foundational Reading Skills in Preservice Teacher Education (Nogueron-Liu, Johns-O'Leary, and Driscoll) Section V: Disrupting Paradigms for Equity 12. Metalinguistic Dismantling for Young Black Language and Spanish-Speaking Students (Lee, Handsfield, Rivas) 13. Autistic Language and Critical Metalinguistic Engagement (Bottema-Beutel) Section VI: Praxis 14. Language Detectives: Using Metalinguistic Awareness to Build Vocabulary (Gately) 15. "Do you Not See this Pretty Black Trans Girl?": Reading Desire Beyond School in One Black Trans Girl's TikTok Grammar of Futurity (Cooper) 16. Unraveling Binary Constructs: Navigating Beyond Dichotomous Thinking in Education by Leveraging Students' Insight (Rivera-Orellana) 17. Supporting Multilingual Students' Equitable Sensemaking in Science Through Metalinguistic and Multimodal Instructional Strategies (Lee and McNeill)