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Bauler, C. V. & Cushing, I. (2026). Dialogue across borders: dismantling deficit thinking in TESOL teacher education. TESOL Journal. DOI: 10.1002/tesj.70111.

Lin, Ching-Ching & Bauler, C. V. (2023). Reimagining dialogue: Identity, language and power. Multilingual Matters.

Jeon, J., Wei, L., Tai, K. W. H., Lee, S. (2025). Generative AI and its dilemmas: Exploring AI from a translanguaging perspective. Applied Linguistics, 46(4), 709–717.

Wei, L. (2024). Transformative pedagogy for inclusion and social justice through translanguaging, co-learning, and transpositioning. Language Teaching, 57(2), 203–214.

Prof Li Wei on Transpositioning: A New Take on Translanguaging and Identities 

Curinga, R. & Heidrick, I. (2026). Helping educators meet the needs of adolescent Spanish-speaking newcomers with developing literacy: Insights from NY State’s Multilingual SIFE Screener. TESOL Journal.

Heidrick, I., & Curinga, R. (2021). Doing MORE to Advance Language and Literacy in Adolescent Newcomers using Evidence-Based Practices. New York State TESOL Journal, 8(1), 15-28.

Premise Roots First 

Dr. Tasha Austin on Anti-Blackness in Language Learning

Austin, T., Raysor, A., James, D. (2026). "They is Me": Redefining 'Traditional' Students Through narratives of Black World Language Teachers. Modern Language Journal.  

Austin, T. (2025). The Role of Black Languaging in Conjuring Countertextual Knowledges. Language Awareness.

Unstandardized English Podcast

Gerald, J. P. B. (2022). Antisocial language teaching: English and the pervasive pathology of whiteness (Vol. 110). Channel View Publications.

Gerald, J. P. B. (2024). Embracing the Exceptions: Meeting the Needs of Neurodivergent Students of Color. Routledge.

Au, W. (2025). Race, curriculum, and the politics of educational justice. Teachers College Press.

Au, W. (2022). Unequal by design: High-stakes testing and the standardization of inequality. Routledge.

A Conversation with Professor Constant Leung 

Schissel, J. L., López-Gopar, M., Leung, C., Morales, J., & Davis, J. R. (2019). Classroom-based assessments in linguistically diverse communities: A case for collaborative research methodologies. Language Assessment Quarterly, 16(4-5), 393-407.

Decolonizing the Speech Language Therapy Profession with Warda Farah

Boveda, M.  (2024). What’s a Black feminist doing in a field like special education? Theory Into Practice, 63(4), 353-365. 

Boveda, M. & Annamma, S. A. (2023). Beyond Making a Statement: An intersectional framing of the power and possibilities of positioning. Educational Researcher. 52(5), 306-314. 

Nair, V. K., Farah, W., & Boveda, M. (2026). Is neurodiversity a global northern white paradigm?. Autism, 30(2), 544-551.