I presented a virtual keynote at the national applied linguistics conference in Asunción, Paraguay. My talk was titled “Leveraging English and language ideologies to support multilingual education: How the village school got a new roof“.

TESOL and Dual Language: Building Programs to Support ELs’ Multilingualism

OH TESOL 2023 Sayer

Slides and papers cited from my keynote address “Reflections on Bilingual Education, the National English Program, and the (Re)shaping of Language Education Policy in Mexico” for the Language Policy in Multilingual Mexico talk, hosted by University of Southampton.

Presentation slides (Note: Please do not reproduce any photos of students or teachers from the presentation without permission.)

Sayer, P. (2019). The hidden curriculum of work in English language education: Neoliberalism and early English programs in public schooling. AILA Review, 32: 36-63. 

Sayer, P., Martinez-Prieto D. & Carvajal, B. (2019). Discourses of white nationalism and xenophobia in the U.S. and their effect on TESOL professionals in Mexico. TESOL Quarterly, 53(3): 835-844. 

Sayer P. (2018). Does English really open doors? Social class and English teaching in public primary schools in Mexico. System, 73(2): 58-70. 

Sayer, P. Ban, R. & Lopez de Anda, M. (2017). Evaluating the educational outcomes of an early foreign language programme: The design of an impact study for the primary English programme in Mexico. In J. Enever and E. Lindgren (Eds.), Researching the complexity of early language learning in instructed contexts, (pp. 269-288). Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.  

Ramírez Romero, J.L. and Sayer, P. (Eds.) (2016). Educational Policy Analysis Archives – Special Issue on English Language Teaching in Public Primary Schools in Latin America 24(84).

Sayer, P. (2015). Expanding global language education in public primary schools: The national English program in Mexico. Language, Culture & Curriculum, 28(3), 257–275. 

Sayer, P. (2015). ‘More & earlier’: Neoliberalism and primary English education in Mexican public schools. L2 Journal, 7(3), 40-56. 

Sayer, P. & Lopez Gopar, M. (2015). Language education in Mexico: Access, equity, and ideology.  In W. Wright, O. Garcia, & S. Boun (Eds.), The handbook of bilingual and multilingual education, (pp. 576-589). Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. 

Sayer, P. & Ban, R. (2014). Young EFL students’ engagements with English outside the classroom.  ELT Journal, 68(3), 321-329. 

Ramirez, J.L., Sayer, P. & Pamplon, I. (2014). English language teaching in public primary schools in Mexico: The practices and challenges of implementing a national language education program. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 27(4), 1020-1043.

Sayer, P. and Ramírez Romero, J.L. (Eds.) (2013). Mextesol Journal – Special Issue for 2013: Research on the Programa Nacional de Inglés en Educación Básica. 37(3).  

Sayer, P. & Ban, R. (2013). What students learn besides language: The non-linguistic benefits of studying English as a foreign language in primary school. Mextesol Journal, 37(3), 1-17. 

Blanco López, R., Mercau, V. & Sayer, P. (2013). PNIEB teachers’ profiles and professional development: A needs analysis. Mextesol Journal, 37(3), 1-22. 

HICELLS 2023 Sayer handout

I was pleased to have the opportunity to be the (virtual) keynote speaker at the International TESOL Conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for a talk entitled Translanguaging Pedagogy for TESOL. 

MLE doctoral student Suan Ataei and I just published a new chapter in an edited volume. One of the co-editors is our new Ohio State colleague, Dr. Becky Huang.

Sayer, P. Ataei, S. (2022). Observation and ethnographic methods for researching young language learners. In Y.G. Butler & B. Huang (Eds.), Research methods for understanding child second language development. London & New York: Routledge.  

Congratulations to Xinyue Lu and Bethany Martens on the publication of our new article. This paper explains the research design and methodology we developed to do a linguistic landscape of Columbus, Ohio.

Lu, X., Martens, B. & Sayer, P. (2022). Examining social class and multilingualism through the linguistic landscape: A methodological proposal. Linguistic Landscape, 8(1): 32-55. DOI 10.1075/ll.20032.lu 

I’m excited to be back on campus this fall and to be able to have face-to-face interaction again!