what is translanguaging?
what is translanguaging?
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Translanguaging is an asset based concept that is a heteroglossic ideology holding bilingualism to a high esteem.
Rather than looking at languages as two separate entities, language learners make meaning by using everything they know linguistically (Garcia, 2017).
Translanguaging focuses on how people produce and make sense of their social worlds using language. Through translanguaging we can use multiple languages in a fluid manner that reduces the current proposed individuality of each language to aid learning.
Translanguaging takes us away from the concept of using language one to learn language two or three. Essentially the learner is using all of their linguistic resources to make meaning rather than using the different languages they know as separate entities.
Research has shown that using students’ heritage language in the classroom can be of benefit to the student and not a detriment which has been a prominent misconception in the past (Garcia, 2017).
Giving defining names and separating languages into different entities due to social, cultural and political realities has given rise to a power hierarchy between some languages and minoritized other languages and people (MacSwan, 2017).
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Translanguaging is an asset based concept that is a heteroglossic ideology holding bilingualism to a high esteem.
Rather than looking at languages as two separate entities, language learners make meaning by using everything they know linguistically (Garcia, 2017).
Ofellia Garcia explains translanguaging.
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It is also a cognitive process that uses the learners ability to move between languages in reading and listening and then using that information to help them speak and write.
Translanguaging takes us away from the concept of using language one to learn language two or three. Essentially the learner is using all of their linguistic resources to make meaning rather than using the different languages they know as separate entities.
Translanguaging focuses on how people produce and make sense of their social worlds using language. Through translanguaging we can use multiple languages in a fluid manner that reduces the current proposed individuality of each language to aid learning.
Research has shown that using students’ heritage language in the classroom can be of benefit to the student and not a detriment which has been a prominent misconception in the past (Garcia, 2017).
Giving defining names and separating languages into different entities due to social, cultural and political realities has given rise to a power hierarchy between some languages and minoritized other languages and people (MacSwan, 2017).
It is evident that the power language holds is immense. The concept of translanguaging equalizes that power hierarchy by seeing the different languages as one.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/language-in-the-mind/201412/what-do-we-use-language
Translanguaging goes far beyond the simplicity of translating the language but towards a need to understand and make meaning of information (Williams, 1996).
Translanguaging has moved forward as a pedagogical theory and focuses on how the learner uses the two languages, making translanguaging a learner focused strategy.
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