English Language Education in Rural Contexts

Paul Chamness Iida, Ph.D., was a Professor of English for Academic Purposes at Akita International University in Akita, Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University. Dr. Iida’s research interests included critical language studies, LGBTQ+ studies, and teacher education. Erin Mikulec, Ph.D., is a Professor at Illinois State University. She was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Helsinki in Finland and has taught English in Japan, Panama, and Vietnam. Her research interests include teacher education and international education. Mary Frances Agnello, Ph.D., is a Professor at Akita International University. She has researched and published topics surrounding political components of the literacy, language, and culture curricula recently under severe scrutiny in public schools and proposed critical and feminist literacy strategies to promote diverse student and educator success.

Foreword

 Maria Coady

Preface

 Erin Mikulec

In Memoriam: Paul Chamness Iida—Scholar and Renaissance Man

 Mary Frances Agnello

About the Cover

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors



Introduction

 Erin Mikulec and Mary Frances Agnello



1 Training for Bilingual Programs: An Examination of Teachers’ Perceived Needs in Rural Poland

 Piotr Romanowski and Emilia Wąsikiewicz-Firlej



2 Rural Primary English Education in Thailand: Policy, Structure, Practice, and Prospects for Reform

 Munchuree Kaosayapandhu



3 Voices of Multilingual Immigrant Women in a Rural New York Community

 Monica A. Baker



4 A Day in the Life of an English Teacher: Narratives from English Language Teachers in a Rural Primary School in China

 Di Liang and Xingtan Cao



5 First-Generation Somali Student Success in a Rural Two-Year College in the Upper Midwest of the United States

 Lee E. Friederich



6 The Reality of English Language Teaching and Learning at Rural Telesecundarias in Mexico

 Arely Romero García and Leticia Araceli Salas Serrano



7 Preparing English Language Teachers for Rural Education: Pedagogically Creative Responses to Online Language Teaching in China and Indonesia

 Carla Meskill, Wuri P. Kusumastuti, Dongni Guo and Fang Wang



8 The Imposition of Silence: An Examination of the Impact of the Urban-Rural Divide in English Language Teaching in Bangladesh

 Md. Al Amin and Janinka Greenwood



9 Georgia’s Bilingual Education and Impact on Rural Latino Dual Language Learners

 Maribel Villegas Greene



10 “They Never Had a School Trip”: English Education at a Rural Secondary School in Northwestern China

 Jing Yixuan, Dai Changzhi and Jing Zhiyuan



11 English Language Teaching in Bilingual Pesantren in Indonesia: From Native Speakerisms to Transformative Mediocrity

 Irham Irham



12 Disrupting Discipline Based Learning: Integrating English and Programming Education

 Florent Domenach, Naoko Araki and Mary Frances Agnello



Index