The Perks of Being Peripheral: English Learning and Participation in a Preschool Classroom Network of Practice

This study follows four English language learners as they make their way across their first year of pre‐kindergarten in an English‐medium school in the United States. It investigates, first, how each student participated, and was positioned, in the classroom network of practice, and, second, what kinds of English growth each student experienced between the fall and spring. Using a layering of epistemological approaches and methods—including...