Since Terry Cross first published his seminal article “Cultural competence continuum” in 1988, there has been a vast increase in recognition of student diversity in all its forms: (dis)ability, gender/non-gender, sexual orientation, language, ethnicity, geography, ecology, socio-economics, etc. ...
As an immigrant child to Canada, I experienced teachers who had very little understanding of how difficult it was to learn a new language. In fact, the strategies and methods used back in the 1970s primary school system were so dreadful that it inspired me to become not only an English as...
While all teachers were fluent in English, we selected teachers with fluency in different heritage languages (Spanish, Cantonese, and Tagalog). The main characteristics of the teachers that participated in the interviews are shown in Table 2. Table 2. Characteristics of the teachers participating in...