This book presents the proceedings of the Low Educated Second Language and Literacy Acquisition Ninth Symposium, August 2013, held at City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus, in one of San Francisco’s most celebrated and culturally vibrant neighborhoods. If you were able to join us for the Symposium, you may recall a large ceramic disc hanging over the college’s entryway, a replica of the Tonalmachiotl, Piedra del Sol, or Sunstone, an Aztec Calendar. Early Mesoamerican culture is thought to have viewed time as circular: by recording events of the past, one could predict the future. And there lies the spirit of our LESLLA 2013 Proceedings, which aims to document themes from the 2013 conference, in an effort to better understand where we in LESLLA are heading as a sub-discipline within the literacy field.
