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Carla Zayas-Santiago; Sara A. Smith – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2025
Current educational trends show an increasing number of Latinx students in the U.S. school system and a shortage of Latinx teachers who mirror their experiences. To better understand how to attract more Latinx teachers to the profession, we must better understand Latinx educators' language and cultural experiences and teaching practices. For this…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Minority Group Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, High School Teachers
Holly Hansen-Thomas; María-Elena Gómez-Parra – TESOL Press, 2025
"Building Classroom Culture Through Translanguaging: Theory to Practice" is a comprehensive guide for educators who want to create inclusive and effective classrooms that celebrate the diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds of their students. It introduces the concept of translanguaging, a pedagogy that moves beyond traditional…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Classroom Environment, Inclusion, Cultural Background
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Siqing Mu; Lili Han; Zhisheng Wen – Language and Education, 2025
In recent years, language portraits (LPs) have emerged as a valuable tool for visually representing multilingual learners' linguistic repertoires. However, previous studies have primarily relied on traditional methods of inviting participants to sketch their language portraits on paper using pens and crayons. In this paper, we propose the use of…
Descriptors: Translation, Language Usage, Code Switching (Language), Multilingualism
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Kiriaki Palapanidi – Educational Linguistics, 2025
In semantic fluency tasks, participants employ semantic search strategies (clustering and switching) to facilitate word retrieval. Clustering involves producing sequences of related words, while switching refers to shifting between different semantic categories. Analyzing these strategies provides insights into the structure of the mental lexicon…
Descriptors: Semantics, Search Strategies, Native Language, Second Language Learning
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Clara Burgo – Journal of Latinos and Education, 2025
Standardized forms are those used by the upper-middle class, and the promotion of them is a way to benefit the institutions of power. Therefore, the ideal curriculum should promote critical language awareness (CLA) to use linguistic ideologies to the benefit of US Latinx students, and Spanish programs should work towards de-foreignizing the…
Descriptors: Latin Americans, Spanish Speaking, Spanish, Curriculum Evaluation
Kate Seltzer; Susana Ibarra Johnson; Ofelia García – Brookes Publishing Company, 2025
The concept of "translanguaging"--using a child's full linguistic repertoire, or all of their linguistic resources, to make meaning--is key to bilingual students' success in school and beyond. Created by some of the most prominent leaders in the field of educating bilingual students, this second edition provides the foundational…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Bilingualism, Academic Achievement, Pedagogical Content Knowledge