Pursuing Language and Metalinguistics in K-12 Classrooms: A Framework for Critical Engagement

This conceptually expansive volume provides a theoretical framework and practical guide for designing and implementing literacy instruction that promotes students’ critical metalinguistic awareness in K-12 classroom contexts.

Renata Love Jones is an assistant professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture in the Department of Early Childhood and Elementary Education at Georgia State University College of Education and Human Development. Jones is a former K-12 literacy, language arts, and ESOL teacher. Her research examines children’s learning engagement and the complex ways that engagement is shaped through curriculum, classroom activity, discourse, and teachers’ instruction.

C. Patrick Proctor is Professor in the Teaching, Curriculum, and Society department at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College. A former bilingual teacher, his work explores the correlational and causal intersections of bilingualism, literacy, teaching, and curriculum.