ERIC Number: EJ1353817
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
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Engaging Opportunities: A Small Moments Reflexive Inquiry of Translanguaging in a Graduate TESOL Course
Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, v21 n3 p160-173 2022
This article draws upon a small moments writing strategy to support language teacher educator learning as a form of reflective practice. Three language teacher educators formed a community of practice to analyze audio recordings of a graduate level TESOL course focused on dynamic bilingualism and translanguaging to identify opportunities where a professor and his students might leverage and enact their own linguistic repertoires to enhance their meaning-making about translanguaging as theory and praxis. Findings reveal four types of engaging opportunities: to expand and continue the co-construction of knowledge about translanguaging; to create space for teachers and students to translanguage; to engage students in clarifying inaccuracies or misunderstandings about translanguaging; and to complicate prior understandings of and socialization into language and how it works. Implications are provided to support the language teacher education community in developing pedagogy that better supports students' understandings of translanguaging as a theory of language and practice.
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Socialization, Linguistic Theory, Teaching Methods, Theory Practice Relationship, Writing Strategies, Teacher Educators, Communities of Practice, Audio Equipment, Graduate Students, Bilingualism, College Faculty, Misconceptions, Student Characteristics, Multilingualism
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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