Translanguaging as a political stance: implications for English language education
Abstract Following the multilingual trend in language education, translanguaging advocates active use of multiple languages and other meaning-making resources in a dynamic and integrated way in teaching and learning. When it comes to foreign language education, translanguaging advocates a view that...
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| Published in: | ELT journal Vol. 76; no. 2; pp. 172 - 182 |
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
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UK
Oxford University Press
30.04.2022
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| ISSN: | 0951-0893, 1477-4526 |
| Online Access: | Get full text |
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Following the multilingual trend in language education, translanguaging advocates active use of multiple languages and other meaning-making resources in a dynamic and integrated way in teaching and learning. When it comes to foreign language education, translanguaging advocates a view that the languages the learners already have should and can play a very positive role in learning additional languages. Moreover, the knowledge already acquired through the learners’ first and/or prior learned languages also plays an important role in foreign-language-medium education. This view is more than a pedagogic or theoretical perspective; it is a political stance, a decolonizing stance, that this article explores. It discusses the implications of the political naming of languages and critiques notions such as academic English. |
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| ISSN: | 0951-0893 1477-4526 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/elt/ccab083 |