Advancing Critical Call Across Institutions and Borders

This book explores how interinstitutional partnerships and transnational collaborations can enhance diversity, equity, inclusion, and access in language education worldwide.

Dr. Emma R. Britton is an applied linguist whose research centers on applications of critical linguistic, posthumanist, sociocultural, and multimodal theories in a variety of digitally-mediated second and world language settings. Dr. Angelika Kraemer is an applied linguist and the Director of the Language Resource Center at Cornell University. Dr. Theresa Austin is a critical sociolinguist in education and a Professor of Language, Literacy & Culture at UMass Amherst. Dr. Hengyi Liu recently completed Ph.D. studies in Language, Literacy and Culture at UMass Amherst. Dr. Xinyue Zuo recently earned a Ph.D. From the Department of Teacher Education and Curriculum Studies at UMass Amherst.

Chapter 1 1. Introduction to Critical CALL across Institutions and Borders Emma R. Britton, Angelika Kraemer, Theresa Austin, Hengyi Liu, Xinyue Zuo PART I: CALL IN/THROUGH TRANSNATIONAL AND COMMUNITY-ORIENTED LEARNER EXCHANGE 2. Critical Virtual Exchange: At the Interface of Critical CALL, Critical Digital Literacy, and Critical Global Citizenship Education Mirjam Hauck 3. Advancing Inclusion through Pre-Mobility Virtual Exchange Ángela-María Alonso-Morais 4. COILing Discrimination Narratives across Continents: A Virtual Exchange Project between a Community College in New York City and a Four-Year College in Jordan Deniz Gokcora, Raymond Oenbring 5. Using Technology and Art in a Middle School Exploratory Heritage Language Program: Diversity Matters Lulu Ekiert, Theresa Austin PART II: CALL IN/THROUGH LESS COMMONLY TAUGHT LANGUAGES 6. Indigenizing Language Pedagogies with Technology: Entangling Human and Nonhuman Affordances for Indigenous Language and Culture Maintenance, Revitalization, and Reclamation Sabine Siekmann, Joan Parker Webster, Steven L. Thorne 7. Developing an Interactive AI-Based Spoken Dialog System for Improving Oral Proficiency in Indonesian and Burmese Rahmi Aoyama, Maw Maw Tun, Reza Neiriznaghadehi PART III: CALL IN/THROUGH TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT 8. Technology-Enabled Interinstitutional Professional Development for Less Commonly Taught Languages Emily Heidrich Uebel, Luca Giupponi, Koen Van Gorp, Thomas Garza 9. Interinstitutional and Transnational Language Teacher Professional Development: Teachers’ Critical Reflections and Future Directions An Sakach, Trang Phan 10. Advancing Arabic Language Education: Empowering Teachers and Promoting Critical CALL through the Arabic Teachers’ Council Kamilia Rahmouni -