Introduction: towards critical qualitative research in second language studies / Kathryn A. Davis -- When the children of their fathers push back! : self-determination and the politics of indigenous research / Margaret J. Maaka ... [et al.] -- In the name of the child : "best interest" analysis and the power of legal language / Susan Hippensteele -- Discourses of English as an official language in a monolingual society : the case of South Korea / Ok Kyoon Yoo -- The context and development of language policy and knowledge production in universities in Hong Kong / Angel M. Y. Lin and Evelyn Y. F. Man -- Sin(gapore En)glish oracy education : an "online discussion" / Warren Mark Liew -- Hawaiian methodologies of indirection : point-less vs. pointless / K. Laiana Wong -- Identity and agency among heritage language learners / Miyung Park -- From East Timor to transnational dialogic interaction : Agus language and literacy journey / Yun Seon Kim with Agustinho Caet -- Finding and reading road signs in ethnographic research : studying the language and stories of the unwelcome stranger / Carlos Ovando and Steven Locke -- Agency as seen through the life story of a Chinese peasant woman / Xiao Rui Zhang -- Teachers organizing to resist in a context of compliance / Lucinda Pease-Alvarez and Alisun Thompson -- Transformation and agency : participatory action research with bilingual undergraduates / Hye-sun Cho -- Using student-as-researcher models as a mode of resistance and agency: creative maladjustment in an urban high school / Renae Skarin -- Promoting translocal and transnational agency : a multifaceted learning community in Japan / Hiromasa Tanaka and Ethel Ogane -- Participatory second language labor education : communities of practice and the foreign worker union movement in Japan / John W. McLaughlin.