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Direct linkXinyue Lu; Zhongfeng Tian – Foreign Language Annals, 2025
This study explores translanguaging practices in a K-5 Mandarin Foreign Language in Elementary School (FLES) program in the United States. Using an ethnographic case study approach, it examined how a Mandarin teacher enacted translanguaging practices in two fourth-grade Mandarin classrooms and explored the affordances these practices provided for…
Descriptors: FLES, Mandarin Chinese, Code Switching (Language), Grade 4
