Critical Literacy Pedagogy for Bilingual Preservice Teachers

Hyesun Cho, Ph.D. is an associate professor of TESOL in the Department of Curriculum and Teaching at the University of Kansas, USA. She received her MA and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Prior to her graduate studies in Hawaii, she taught English in secondary schools in Seoul, Korea. She also taught language minority high school and undergraduate students and worked with public-school teachers in Honolulu, Hawaii. Cho is the recipient of the 2009 Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award from the Second Language Research SIG at the American Educational Research Association. Her work has appeared in several book chapters and journals, including Race, Ethnicity, and Education, Language and Education, Computers and Education, Curriculum Inquiry, Teaching and Teacher Education and TESOL Journal. Her research interests include social identity of language learners and teachers, critical literacy, heritage language education, and teaching for social justice.

• 1 Introduction.- 2 Conceptual Framework.- 3 Research Design.- 4 Situated Learning in Seminars from a Community of Practice Perspective.- 5 Critical Literacy Practices in Third Space.- 6 The Complexicity and Hybridity of Social Identities.- 7 Tensions and Challenges in Enacting Critical Literacy Pedagogy.- 8 Transformations.- 9 Conclusion: Close Encounters of the Third Space Kind.