Virtual Exchange as Justice-Oriented Practices: Navigating Identity, Language and Power (New Perspectives on Language and Education): 139 - Hardcover

Ching-Ching Lin; Clara Vaz Bauler; Ersweetcel Servano

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1788921216 ISBN 13: 9781788921213

Publisher: Multilingual Matters, 2026

Synopsis

Reconceptualizes virtual exchange as a vehicle for humanizing education, expanding global perspectives and fostering values of inclusion and non-discrimination.

This book brings a justice-oriented focus to virtual exchange, highlighting how equity, inclusion and critical awareness can be meaningfully integrated into global learning environments.

The chapters in this book illuminate the intertwined nature of identity, language and power, shedding light on how these elements can perpetuate deficit narratives and structural inequality within virtual exchanges. To counter this, readers are introduced to diverse justice-based perspectives, frameworks, protocols, case studies and materials that support the design and facilitation of critical virtual exchange experiences.

The chapters engage with issues including partnerships and collaborations between the Global North and South, dialogue amid conflict and war, and the use of varieties of English and practices to foster student agency and collective accountability. Each chapter includes practical case studies and critical discussion questions designed for teacher education, facilitator training and professional development in culturally diverse classrooms.

About this title

About the Author

Ching-Ching Lin is a teacher educator and scholar in TESOL and Bilingual Education at Adelphi University in New York, USA. Her work centers on designing culturally sustaining and linguistically inclusive curricula that advance equity and ecological sustainability in education. Most recently she was co-editor of Reimagining Dialogue on Identity, Language and Power (Multilingual Matters, 2024, with Clara Vaz Bauler).

Clara Vaz Bauler is a Professor of TESOL/Bilingual Education at Adelphi University, New York, USA. She is invested in pedagogical practices that validate and affirm all multilingual students' knowledge, experiences and linguistic-semiotic resources. She advocates for the naturalization of multimodality, multilingualism and dialogue in language teaching and learning spaces via digital media technology.

Ersweetcel Servano is a Professor and Dean of the College of Education at Notre Dame of Dadiangas University in General Santos City, Philippines. Her research interests include language and law, Systemic Functional Linguistics, identity and hybridity, memory and trauma, virtual exchange, World Englishes and home language.

Edition details

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1788921216
• ISBN 13: 9781788921213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 295