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ERIC Number: EJ1481515
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 21
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1359-866X
EISSN: EISSN-1469-2945
Available Date: 0000-00-00
Sustaining a Translanguaging Community of Practice: A Narrative Inquiry by Teacher Educators
Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, v53 n4 p428-448 2025
As linguistic and cultural diversity increases globally, teachers need to develop translanguaging pedagogies that leverage students' full linguistic repertoires. Enacting such pedagogies can be challenging due to policy, ideology, and knowledge constraints. This study explores the processes and factors that allow Translanguaging Communities of Practice (TCoPs) to form and evolve equitably. Through narrative inquiry, the authors examine critical incidents that enabled them to create and sustain their TCoP. Findings reveal key elements: an initiating leader, accepting invitations for legitimate peripheral participation, attending to affective dimensions, valuing reciprocity, enabling identity transformations, making impact, and extending invitations. The authors argue that such communities empower scholars to broaden pedagogical practices in linguistically diverse contexts. The study highlights TCoPs' potential in meeting the challenge of enacting translanguaging design and fostering inclusive approaches to language teaching and learning. Despite constraints, collaboration within a TCoP allowed members to develop pedagogies that leverage students' full linguistic repertoires.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: N/A
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Australia
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A
Author Affiliations: 1Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia; 2University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia