Minority languages and sustainable translanguaging: threat or opportunity?

Traditionally, languages have been separated from each other in the school curriculum and there has been little consideration for resources that learners possess as emergent multilinguals. This policy is aimed at the protection of minority languages and has sought to avoid cross-linguistic influence...

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Published in:Journal of multilingual and multicultural development Vol. 38; no. 10; pp. 901 - 912
Main Authors: Cenoz, Jasone, Gorter, Durk
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Abingdon Routledge 26.11.2017
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects:
Basque
Bilingual Education
Bilingual people
Bilingual Schools
Bilingualism
Code switching
Code Switching (Language)
Curricula
Foreign Countries
Ideology
Language Maintenance
Language Minorities
Language Usage
Languages
Linguistics
Medium of instruction
Minority languages
multilingual education
Multilingualism
Policy
Protection
Russian language
Sustainability
Sustainable development
Threats
Translanguaging
Spain
ISSN:0143-4632, 1747-7557
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Summary:Traditionally, languages have been separated from each other in the school curriculum and there has been little consideration for resources that learners possess as emergent multilinguals. This policy is aimed at the protection of minority languages and has sought to avoid cross-linguistic influence and codeswitching. However, these ideas have been challenged by current multilingual ideologies in a society that is becoming more globalised. Within the field of multilingual education studies, there is a strong trend towards replacing the idea of isolated linguistic systems with approaches that take multilingual speakers and their linguistic repertoire as a reference. This article focuses on translanguaging, a concept that was developed in bilingual schools in Wales and refers both to pedagogically oriented strategies and to spontaneous language practices. In this article, translanguaging will be analysed as related to the protection and promotion of minority languages. Examples from multilingual education involving minority languages will be shown in order to see how translanguaging can be at the same time a threat for the survival of minority languages and an opportunity for their development. A set of principles that can contribute to sustainable translanguaging in a context of regional minority language use will be discussed.
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ISSN:0143-4632
1747-7557
DOI:10.1080/01434632.2017.1284855