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Publication Date: 2022-Jun
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Enacting a Critical Translingual Approach in Teacher Preparation: Disrupting Oppressive Language Ideologies and Fostering the Personal, Political, and Pedagogical Stances of Preservice Teachers of English
TESOL Journal, v13 n2 e649 Jun 2022
This article builds on García, Johnson, and Seltzer's (2017) concept of a translanguaging stance and lays out three of its interrelated elements--the personal, the political, and the pedagogical--that can position teachers of English to disrupt oppressive language ideologies. To move from an overemphasis on "practice" toward a focus on stance development requires that teacher preparation programs engage majority white, monolingual teacher candidates in critical reflection on how ideologies around being white and monolingual shape their perceptions of language-minoritized students' languaging and literacies. This article offers practical approaches rooted both in theory and in collaborative research with a classroom English teacher to explore how teacher preparation programs can integrate self-reflective, consciousness-raising activities and projects into their coursework to encourage candidates to grapple with these three elements of their teaching stance.
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Ideology, Social Bias, Racial Bias, Ethnicity, Language Minorities, Reflection, Consciousness Raising, Teacher Attitudes, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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