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Translanguaging and English as a Lingua Franca in the Plurilingual Classroom

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This book explores the use of multilingual practices such as translanguaging, code-switching and stylization by speakers of less commonly taught languages. It investigates how students use these la...
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  • 09 March 2023
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This book explores multilingual practices such as translanguaging, code-switching and stylization in secondary classrooms in Hawai’i. Using linguistic ethnography, it investigates how students in a linguistically diverse class, including those who speak less commonly taught languages, deal with learning tasks and the social life of the class when using these languages alongside English as a lingua franca. It discusses implications for teachers, from balancing student needs in lesson planning and instruction to classroom management, where the language use of one individual or group can create challenges of understanding, participation or deficit identity positionings for another. The book argues that students must not only be allowed to flex their whole language repertoires to learn and communicate but also be aware of how to build bridges across differences in individual repertoires. It offers suggestions for teachers to consider within their own contexts, highlighting the need for teacher autonomy to cultivate the classroom community’s critical language awareness and create conducive environments for learning. This book will appeal to postgraduate students, researchers and academics working in the fields of sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography as well as pre-service and in-service teachers in linguistically diverse secondary school contexts.

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Price: $45.95
Pages: 210
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Series: Bilingual Education & Bilingualism
Publication Date: 09 March 2023
Trim Size: 9.20 X 6.15 in
ISBN: 9781800413429
Format: Paperback
BISACs: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Bilingualism and multilingualism, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, EDUCATION / Teaching / General, EDUCATION / Special Education / General, Education of bilingual or multilingual students, Teaching skills and techniques, Educational strategies and policy
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Excellent classroom research that speaks to important issues of equity and social justice. The author makes theoretical and empirical analysis such a delight to read and a source of insights to inspire a whole next generation of teachers, researchers and teacher educators in plurilingual and pluricultural settings.

Anna Mendoza is Assistant Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Her research interests include translanguaging, code-switching and multilingualism in English-medium secondary schools.

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Jeff MacSwan: Foreword

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Theoretical Constructs and Multilingual Practices in K–12 Education                   

Chapter 3. Research Context, Methods and Data Collection and Analysis                

Chapter 4. ‘Sheltered’ English 9: Multilingual Majorities, Minorities, Singletons, Newcomers and Old-Timers 

Chapter 5. ESL 9/10: Connecting Translanguaging and Critical Language Awareness            

Chapter 6. Identity Trajectories of Individual Students: Multidialectal Translanguaging and Expanded Notions of ‘Academic’ Literacy             

Chapter 7. Discussion and Pedagogical Implications

Chapter 8. Conclusion           

Appendices        

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