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Mario E. López-Gopar; William M. Sughrua; Vilma Huerta Cordova – Teachers and Teaching: Theory and Practice, 2024
The field of second language teacher education has recently focused on issues of social justice through different interventions in language teaching preparation programmes and the analysis of the identity formation of pre-service and in-service language teachers. However, little is known about the identities of teacher educators in second language…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Foreign Countries
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Riestenberg, Katherine J. – Language Learning Journal, 2020
Many theoretical models of second or additional language learning posit a crucial role for meaningful social interaction in the target language. However, it is not always clear to language educators how to create such opportunities or what counts as meaningful interaction. This can become even more difficult when the target language is an…
Descriptors: Language Maintenance, American Indian Languages, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness
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Schwab-Cartas, Joshua – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2018
This article describes how cellphone technology, specifically cellphilms -- films of varying lengths made with cellphones by everyday people -- are being taken up in the community of Union Hidalgo as a platform to foster an intergenerational dialogue between youth and Elders, with the specific goal of preserving the Zapotec language and ancestral…
Descriptors: American Indian Languages, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, American Indians
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Gutiérrez Luís, Beatriz; Baloes Gutiérrez, Gisela; Arellanes Cano, Mayem; Meyer, Lois M. – FIRE: Forum for International Research in Education, 2019
Since 2013, Oaxacan Indigenous educators have experienced "seismic aftershocks" from three tumultuous developments: the massive 8.2 earthquake in September 2017 along Oaxaca´s Pacific coast, immediately followed by other earthquakes and continuing tremors; homogenizing federal education reforms imposed since 2013, including the projected…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, American Indian Languages, American Indians, Teacher Attitudes
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Meyer, Lois M. – Global Education Review, 2017
In 2011, Indigenous Initial Education teachers in Oaxaca, Mexico, for the first time participated in an alternative teacher professional development effort (called a "diplomado") to initiate community appropriate bilingual programs for pregnant mothers and infants under 3 years old. Collaborating with parents and village authorities, the…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Socialization, Photography, American Indians
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Hoobler, Ellen – American Indian Quarterly, 2006
This article features the museums of Oaxaca, the place where the community museum movement in Mexico got started. Oaxaca has the largest Indigenous population in Mexico, with about 36.6% of the population over five years old, or about 1.027 million people, speaking an Indigenous language. Tourists spend large amounts on group or personalized tours…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Museums, Indigenous Populations, American Indians