Language assessment
West, G. B., & Thiruchelvam, B. (2023). “It’s not their English”: Contesting the validity of a high-stakes test. In M. R. Salaberry, A. Weideman, & W-L. Hsu (Eds.). Ethics and context in second language testing: Rethinking validity in theory and practice. Routledge.
Kim, A. A., Chapman, M., West, G. B., Zheng, B., & Cranley, M. E. (2020). Assessing preschool English learners’ receptive and expressive language ability to inform instruction. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, https://doi.org/10.1080/13670050.2020.1835804
West, G. B., & Thiruchelvam, B. (2018). Impacts of and Responses to a University High Stakes Writing Test. In D. Crusan & T. Reucker (Eds.), International political contexts of second language writing assessment. New York: Routledge.
Chapman, M., Wang, Y., Kim, A. A., Montee, M., & West, G. B. (2021). Spoken academic language development of K-12 English learners: Relationships between task variables and complexity and fluency measures (Technical Report No. TR-2021-1). Wisconsin Center for Education Research.
Kindergarten writing
West, G. B., & Beck, J. (2024). Cultivating and making meaning of kindergarten multilingual learner multimodal writing. MIDTESOL Journal, 6, 51-62. https://midtesol.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/3.-Cultivating-and-making-meaning-of-kindergarten-multilingual-learner-multimodal-writing.pdf
Transmodalities
West, G. B. (2023). “Everybody is 1% of everything”: Youth ethnoracial positioning and constructing a semiotics of race. Multimodality & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795231187083
Goldberg, S., & West, G. B. (2023). Building a sense of community through equity-driven afterschool programming. MinneTESOL Journal, 39(2). https://minnetesoljournal.org/building-a-sense-of-community-through-equity-driven-afterschool-programming/
West, G. B., Zheng, B., & Tran, T. D. (2021). Youth Transmodally Indexing Social Discourses: A Vietnamese Video Narrative Analysis. In M. R. Hawkins (Ed.). Transmodal Communications: Transpositioning Semiotics and Relations. Multilingual Matters.
Narrative analysis
Ahn, S-Y., & West, G. B. (2022). Positioning of female marriage immigrants in South Korea: A multimodal textbook analysis. Applied Linguistics Review. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2021-0082
West, G. B. (2019). Navigating morality in neoliberal spaces of English language education. Linguistics and Education, 49, 31–40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2018.12.004
“Good” teacher project
Ahn, S-Y., & West, G. B. (2018). Young learners’ imaginings of ‘good English teacher’ identities in South Korea. Applied Linguistics Review, 9(2-3), 225-248. https://doi.org/10.1515/applirev-2016-1064
Ahn, S-Y., & West, G. B. (2016). Unmasking young learners’ perceptions of good language teacher (GLT) identity. English Teaching, 71(1): 73 – 95. https://doi.org/10.15858/engtea.71.1.201603.73
Critical language pedagogy
West, G. B. (2021). “Is this a safe space?”: Examining an emotionally charged eruption in critical language pedagogy. Education Sciences, 11(4), 186-200. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11040186
Cannizzo, H. A., Crookes, G. V., Farias, P. F., Häusler, A., Leal, P., da Silva, L., Siquiera, S., Parba, J., West, G. B., & Ziegler, N. (2021). Final thoughts: Concluding the special issue. Education Sciences, 11(4), 764-773. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11120764
Häusler, A., Leal, P., Parba, J., West, G. B., & Crookes, G. V. (2018). “How did you become political?”: Narratives of junior researcher-practitioners in applied linguistics. Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 15(4), 282-301. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2018.1453303
West, G. B. (2018). Reading communities: Developing autonomy though community-building in an academic reading course. In A. Burns, & J. Siegel (Eds.) International perspectives on teaching the four skills in ELT. Palgrave MacMillan.
West, G. B., & Crookes, G. V. (2017). Critical practitioner research in language education under difficult circumstances. In S. A. Mirhosseini (Ed.) Qualitative research in language and literacy education. Springer.
West, G. B. (2017). Doing critical language pedagogy in neoliberal spaces: A materialist narrative analysis of teaching young learners of English in a Korean hagwon. Second Language Studies, 36(1), pp. 75-165.
West, G. B. (2017). Defining and doing social justice in English language teaching. The English Connection, 21(1).
West, G. B. (2014). Doing critical pedagogy in neoliberal spaces: Negotiated possibilities in Korean hagwons. In P. C. Miller (Ed.). Readings in language studies, Vol. 4. International Society for Language Studies.
West, G. B. (2014). Building autonomy in an L2 reading course: A report on aspects of a curriculum development project. In J. Holdway, & B. Wilson (Eds.) Proceedings of the 17th Annual Linguistics, Languages, and Literature Conference. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Edited volumes
West, G. B., & Park, J. (2014). Living and learning English: ELI student voices. English Language Institute Press.
Leal, P. & West, G. B. (2014). Proceedings of the 18th Annual Linguistics, Languages, and Literature Conference: Language, Literature, Culture and Society. University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
Published lesson plans & teaching focused
West, G. B. (2018). Countdown Timer Faceoff. In J. Vorholt (Ed.) New Ways in Teaching Speaking, 2nd Edition. TESOL Press.
West, G. B. (2018). Bluff. In J. Vorholt (Ed.) New Ways in Teaching Speaking, 2nd Edition. TESOL Press.
West, G. B. (2016). Reluctant parents. In J. Rucynski (Ed.) New Ways in Teaching with Humor. TESOL Press.
West, G. B. (2014). Engaging a writer. In H. Reinders & M. Lewis (Eds.) New Ways in Teaching Adults. TESOL Press.
West, G. B. (2014). How terms are used. In A. Coxhead (Ed.) New Ways in Teaching Vocabulary. TESOL Press.
West, G. B. (2014). Argumentative paragraphs and essays. In D. Mussman (Ed.) New Ways in Teaching Writing (pp. 148 – 149). TESOL Press.
West, G. B. (2013). Creating new spaces for learning with theater. The Word: Hawaiʻi TESOL Newsletter, 23(1), pp. 3–4.
West, G. B. (2013). The privilege (and perils) of teaching a spouse: What I learned about giving corrective feedback. The Word: Hawaiʻi TESOL Newsletter, 22(2), 6—8.
West, G. B. (2012). Journaling with young learners: Using learner-created materials to supplement textbooks. The English Connection, 16(2).
West, G. B. (2012). 5 minute lesson planning. About Seoul KOTESOL (ASK) Newsletter. Spring Issue.
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