Insights into Professional Development for Teachers of English Language Learners: A Focus on Using Students' Native Languages in the Classroom

Aiming for Equity: Preparing Mainstream Teachers for Inclusion or Inclusive Classrooms?

“…They note that preservice teachers' experiences with diverse learners, including study abroad experiences, appear to have a positive effect on teachers' attitudes toward ELLs. Although the precise relationship between beliefs, attitudes, and teacher knowledge is still not clear in the field and a full review is outside the scope of this study, work in this area continues to advance among scholars (Kibler & Roman, ; Lucas & Grinberg, ).…”

“…Most research on effective teacher preparation for ELLs in the United States tends to focus either on practicing teachers without reference to their professional preparation (Karabenick & Noda, 2004;Walker, Shafer, & Iams, 2004) or on teachers' attitudes toward ELLs (Kibler & Roman, 2013) or toward cultural diversity in general. Exceptions are studies by Byrnes, Kiger, and Manning (1997) and Karathanos (2009), which confirm the effectiveness of formal preparation in second language teaching in positively affecting teachers' attitudes and practices.…”

From Deficit to Diversity: How Teachers of Recently Arrived Emergent Bilinguals Negotiate Ideological and Pedagogical Change

“…Gleeson and Davison's (2016) work with secondary teachers in Australia suggests that teachers' attitudes and practices about teaching emergent bilinguals is shaped primarily through their classroom-based experiences. Kibler and Roman (2013) studied attitudinal changes of nonbilingual teachers who work with emergent bilingual programs about home language use. They found that overarching ideologies about home language use (that it stunts English growth) and immigrants (that they should learn English without the use of their home language) stood in the way of some participants' acceptance of the role home language plays in emergent bilinguals' academic growth.…”

Preparing Elementary English Teachers: Innovations at Pre-service Level

“…In fact, learning activities need to be designed to guide candidate teachers to perform analytical critique in the viability and repercussions of various instructional strategies based on particular institutional settings and serious considerations of 'native-language use' (Kibler & Roman, 2013). This is where the linguistic diversity occurring in the classroom is taken into account.…”