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Asian Americans in Bilingualism and Bilingual Education

The Long Overdue Voice
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This book centres and amplifies the voices and complex lived experiences of Asian Americans in bilingual education. Drawing from the fields of bilingual education and ethnic studies, the chapters discuss language ideologies, anti-racist pedagogies, language loss, and teacher and student experiences to explore how multilingualism is... Read More
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This book centers and amplifies the voices and complex lived experiences of Asian Americans in bilingual education. Employing critical theoretical frameworks such as AsianCrit, decoloniality, counterhegemonic and anti-racist pedagogies, it broadens understandings of multilingualism and challenges dominant narratives in education.

The first edited volume fully dedicated to Asian American experiences in bilingual education

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This book centres and amplifies the voices and complex lived experiences of Asian Americans in bilingual education. Drawing from the fields of bilingual education and ethnic studies, the chapters discuss language ideologies, anti-racist pedagogies, language loss, and teacher and student experiences to explore how multilingualism is experienced distinctly by Asian Americans.

Recognising the heterogeneity within Asian American communities, Asian Americans in Bilingualism and Bilingual Education highlights underrepresented Asian languages such as Hmong and Khmer and discusses both formal and informal education settings.

It showcases a wide range of narratives and qualitative methodologies, employing critical theoretical frameworks such as AsianCrit, decoloniality, intersectionality, critical refugee studies, raciolinguistics, counterhegemonic pedagogies, humanisation, and transnationalism.

As the first book fully dedicated to Asian American experiences in bilingual education, it broadens understandings of multilingualism and appeals to researchers, teacher educators, and postgraduate students in applied linguistics, Asian American studies, higher education, and bilingual education.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781800419919

Publisher: Multilingual Matters

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 16 December 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Multilingual Matters

Contributors:

  • Edited by Zhongfeng Tian
  • Edited by Alisha Nguyen
  • Edited by Trish Morita-Mullaney
  • Edited by Khánh Lê

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 640g

Pages: 303

About the Author

Khánh Lê is Assistant Professor of Multilingualism and English Education at Queens College, CUNY, USA. His research spans critical refugee studies, Asian American studies, bilingual education, translanguaging and transtrauma.

Zhongfeng Tian is Associate Professor of Bilingual Education at Rutgers University–Newark, USA. His research focuses on translanguaging, Chinese–English bilingual education and multilingual teacher education grounded in social justice praxis. He serves on the editorial boards of leading journals including TESOL Quarterly, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism and International Multilingual Research Journal. 

Alisha Nguyen is Assistant Professor of Bilingual and Special Education at Lesley University, USA. Her work focuses on early childhood education, anti-racist pedagogies and family and community engagement.

Trish Morita-Mullaney is Professor at Purdue University, USA. Her research is framed by critical language, critical race and feminist theories; she employs a variety of methods to accomplish these aims. She uses participatory and constructivist methods with participants, as they unpack, critique and analyze their orientations towards emergent bilinguals and multilingualism.

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