Purpose: Converging evidence demonstrates that robust academic vocabulary and morphology instruction improves literacy outcomes of multilingual adolescents. However, few interventions have focused on teaching word analysis using bound Latin roots, the major meaning-carrying constituents of academic words (e.g. voc meaning "speak" in…

This paper examines the need to integrate students' full linguistic repertoires into literacy instruction in middle and high school classrooms. Traditional monoglossic approaches often neglect the linguistic assets multilingual students bring, limiting their academic potential. Drawing on translanguaging theory, this paper explores three…

Based on empirical observations of educational guidance and interviews with students and teachers at two Danish schools, as well as critical policy analysis, this article illustrates how worry about future education for racially minoritised students in problematized housing areas is shaped in intersections of place, class, and race. Through an…