ERIC Number: EJ1469312
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 26
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ISSN: ISSN-0965-8416
EISSN: EISSN-1747-7565
Available Date: 0000-00-00
EFL Teachers Learning to Translanguage through Loop Input: Implications for Their Identity-Reconstruction
Muhammet Yasar Yüzlü1; Kenan Dikilitas2
Language Awareness, v34 n2 p231-256 2025
While numerous training models aim to empower teachers by positioning them as active participants with agency and freedom, they often fall short in providing opportunities for training that seamlessly incorporates both the participants' own language and English. In this study, we used loop input (process and content aligned) in two languages that exacerbate the process of translanguaging. Loop input involved learning to translanguage by translanguaging. The study was conducted in Türkiye with 12 in-service English as a Foreign language (EFL) teachers. Data were gathered via semi-structured interviews, reflective journals, and in-class observations. Findings showed that loop input-modelled training, due to its reflection and awareness-raising orientations, contributes to in-service EFL teachers' (INSETs) identity reconstruction in complex manners at the intersection of translanguaging-influenced identities: "self-reflective critical teacher," "student engagement-oriented teacher," and "translanguaging-facilitating teacher." We argue that loop input-modelled translanguaging-embedded training could be a proper model to introduce translanguaging pedagogy.
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Language Teachers, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Teacher Attitudes, Faculty Development, Native Language, Code Switching (Language), Self Concept, Learner Engagement, Teaching Methods, Language Usage, Teacher Student Relationship, Teacher Student Ratio, Turkish, Foreign Countries, Professional Identity, Kindergarten, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Reflection, Consciousness Raising
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research; Tests/Questionnaires
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Elementary Education; Kindergarten; Primary Education; Elementary Secondary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Turkey
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Author Affiliations: 1Department of English Language Teaching, Zonguldak Bülent Ecevit University, Zonguldak, Turkey; 2Program for University Pedagogy, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway