New Perspectives on Translanguaging and Education

✍ Scribed by BethAnne Paulsrud (editor); Jenny Rosén (editor); Boglárka Straszer (editor); Åsa Wedin (editor)

• Publisher: Multilingual Matters
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book explores the immense potential of translanguaging in various educational settings and language contexts and considers the need for pedagogy to reflect and embrace diversity. Chapters provide rich empirical research and document teachers and students negotiating language ideologies in their everyday communicative practices.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Contributors
1. Translanguaging as an Everyday Practice
2. Perspectives on Translanguaging in Education
3. Translanguaging and Ideology: Moving Away from a Monolingual Norm
4. Spaces for Translanguaging in Swedish Education Policy
5. Multilingual Young People as Writers in a Global Age
6. Pedagogies to Challenge Monolingual Orientations to Bilingual Education in the United States
7. Translanguaging and Social Justice: The Case of Education for Immigrants who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
8. From Silencing to Translanguaging: Turning the Tide to Support Emergent Bilinguals in Transition from Home to Pre-school
9. Translanguaging Space and Spaces for Translanguaging: A Case Study of a Finnish-language Pre-school in Sweden
10. Unravelling Translanguaging: The Potential of Translanguaging as a Scaffold among Teachers and Pupils in Superdiverse Classrooms in Flemish Education
11. Negotiating Concepts and the Role of Translanguaging
12. Agency and Affordance in Translanguaging for Learning: Case Studies from English-medium Instruction in Swedish Schools
13. Ideology Versus Practice: Is There a Space for Pedagogical Translanguaging in Mother Tongue Instruction?
14. Epilogue
Index