ERIC Number: EJ1371243
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1534-8458
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Translingual Youth Podcasts as Acoustic Allies: Writing and Negotiating Identities at the Intersection of Literacies, Language and Racialization
Journal of Language, Identity, and Education, v21 n6 p378-392 2022
U.S. Latinx youth from immigrant backgrounds bring to schools their transnational literacies, complex lived experiences of marginalization and resistance, and politicized translanguaging practices that are seldom recognized in classrooms. This article examines U.S. Latinx bilingual youth who participated in a podcast project within a Chicanx/Latinx Studies high school course that mobilized their bilingualism for literacy instruction. This ethnographic classroom study explores a curricular unit that allowed young people to use new media technologies to tell important stories of themselves and their social worlds at a time of heightened anti-immigrant sentiments in the United States. Through translanguaging and translingual frames, I demonstrate how Latinx young people contest racist narratives, reclaim who they are, and author new spaces for solidarity. Findings detail the ways that students utilized podcasts as a tool to promote creativity and self-expression, and to connect personal experiences to broader pressing discourses about immigration, language, racialization processes, and resistance.
Descriptors: Audio Equipment, Hispanic American Students, High School Students, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Spanish, Language Usage, Immigrants, Literacy, Disadvantaged, Code Switching (Language), Political Attitudes, Language Attitudes, Racism, Personal Narratives, Self Concept, Creativity, Immigration, Bilingualism, Literacy Education, Singing, Student Attitudes, Units of Study
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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