ERIC Number: EJ1393975
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Publication Date: 2023-Oct
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The Translanguaging Pedagogies Continuum
Marcela Ossa Parra; Patrick Proctor
Journal of Education, v203 n4 p917-924 Oct 2023
Translanguaging pedagogy is an approach to educational equity that harnesses multilingual learners' communicative repertoires (e.g., home languages, non-standard varieties, and gestures) by strategically incorporating them in the classroom to ensure students' active participation and meaningful learning. This paper proposes a research-informed continuum that captures a range of possibilities for integrating translanguaging in language and literacy instruction. This continuum provides insight into how educators may make socially just instructional and curricular decisions that are based on recognizing multilingual students' languages, cultures, and ways of knowing as valuable assets in the classroom.
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language, Multilingualism, Cultural Awareness, Language Usage, Decision Making, Teaching Methods, Equal Education, Nonstandard Dialects, Literacy Education, Social Justice, Curriculum Development, Classroom Communication, Bilingual Education Programs, Ethnography
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Language: English
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