Supporting Asian American Students in Multicultural Contexts: Language, Culture, Identity and Power in the US

by Chaehyun Lee

Overview

Provides the teaching methods and strategies educators need to foster diverse, inclusive and unbiased classroom environments.

This book helps classroom teachers and educational leaders to support Asian American students in a variety of school settings, exploring their dual language use, literacy development and multifaceted identity (re)construction.

Contributing to the fields of multi/plurilingual and multi/pluricultural education, it synthesizes key philosophical concepts, theories and perspectives that contemporary educators should be familiar with when working with racially, linguistically and culturally diverse student populations. It draws on ten years of data from Korean heritage language schools and addresses topics such as translanguaging, culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy, transnationalism, AsianCrit theory and raciolinguistic ideologies.

This book provides teachers, teacher educators and parents with valuable knowledge and understanding of how to adequately support students from diverse backgrounds in inclusive and unbiased classrooms.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781836680086
Publisher:	Channel View Publications
Publication date:	02/10/2026
Series:	Language, Education and Diversity , #7
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.15(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Chaehyun Lee is Associate Professor at Southeastern Oklahoma State University, USA. Her research interests include bilingual and multilingual education, social justice and equity education.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to Understanding the Dynamics of Language, Culture, and Power in a Multilingual/Plurilingual World

Chapter 2. Creating a Transformative Third Space by Embracing Heritage Language and Culture to Promote Multi/Plurilingualism Introduction to the Chapter

Chapter 3. Enacting Translanguaging Pedagogy in Creating an Inclusive and Rich Learning Environment

Chapter 4. Understanding Bi/Multi/Plurilingual Learners’ Dynamic and Fluid Translanguaging Practices

Chapter 5. Embracing Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Pedagogy: Incorporating Multicultural Literature to Provide Equitable and Just Educational Experiences

Chapter 6. Exploring Transnational and Transcultural Identity Construction in Distinctive Transnational Lifeworld

Chapter 7. Implementing Social Justice-Oriented Practices to Achieve Equity and Justice

Chapter 8. (Re)constructing and Negotiating Ethno-Racial and Linguistic Identities from Raciolinguistic Ideologies

Chapter 9. A Call to Action for Educators: Applying the New Knowledge Gained