This holistic text examines the nexus of advocacy and English-language teaching, beginning with theories of advocacy, covering constraints and challenges in practice, and offering a range of hands-on perspectives in different contexts and with different populations.

Part I: Overview of Advocacy 1. Advocacy Skills for Teachers: "A Real Careful Little Dance" 2. Problematizing Advocacy: Definitions, Alignments, and Expansions Part II: Preparing Teacher Advocates 3. Beyond the Philosophy Statement: Bringing Advocacy Center Stage in TESOL Teacher Education 4. Building Advocacy Capacity in a Teacher Training Program 5. Cultivating a Sense of Critical Consciousness in Teacher Candidates within a Community-Based Adult ESL Program 6. Action Research for Advocacy in a Supervised Teaching Seminar Part III: Advocacy in Action 7. Exploring Advocacy in an Elementary ESL Afterschool Program in the United States: Empirically, What's There? 8. Language Advocate Alliances: Families and Educators United to Support English 9. Moving Away from the Margins: Publication of International Voices as a Tool for Advocacy 10. Action Required: The Adult Educator as Activist 11. A Framework for Asset-focused Advocacy in Adult ESL Education 12. Making the Path by Walking Together: A Collaborative Approach to Advocacy Part IV: Advocating with Specific EL Populations 13. Advocating for Indigenous Hispanic EL Students: Promoting the Indigenismo Within 14. A Mother's Advocacy: Lessons for Educators of Long-term EL Students 15. From Majority to Minority: Advocating for English Learners from the African Diaspora