Translanguaging Quiz

What is Translanguaging?

• The act performed by bilinguals of accessing different linguistic features or various modes of what are described as autonomous language.

• Process where multilingual speakers use their languages as an integrated communication system.

• The language practices of bilinguals and the multiple discursive practices in which bilinguals engage in order to make sense of their bilingual worlds.

• Dynamic process in which multilingual speakers navigate complex social and cognitive demands through strategic employment of multiple languages.

What is Translanguaging in the Classroom?

• Helps students draw on all their linguistic resources as they read, write, and discuss academic subjects in a new language.

• Flexible bilingual practices that allow for learners to emerge as bilinguals and enable to articulate knowledge while focusing on the concept and not only on their use of one language or the other.

• Emergent bilingual students learn academic subjects by translating everything they say.

• Effective translanguaging strategies draw on emergent bilinguals' home languages without direct translation of the content.

What is ONE Advantage to Translanguaging?

• Encourages two-way learning

• New knowledge generating practices

• Promotes a deeper and fuller understanding of the subject matter

• Increases inclusion, participation and understandings of pupils in the learning processes

What is ONE Benefit to Translanguaging?

• Works against linguistic hierarchies.

• Endorsement of simultaneous literacies and languages to keep the pedagogic task moving.

• Builds metalinguistic awareness.

• A variety of ways to use language in classrooms or conversation with each other.

How Do You Construct a Translanguaging Classroom?

• Normalize linguistic diversity.

• Recognition and building off linguistic strengths.

• Involving families and others.

• Recognition of variability of language.

What is an Aspect of a Translanguaging Classroom?

• Incorporation of translanguaging into instruction and assessment.

• Limiting their ability to learn.

• Providing students with information and letting them run with it.

• Belief that students learn more when they can use their full features of their language repertoires.

How to Implement the Translanguaging Strategy?

• Seeing dynamic bilingualism as an advantage rather than as a problem to be solved.

• Making standards/content work for the students rather than the other way around.

• Bilingual students can look at content and literacy standards to highlight the different types of language practices needed to understand the complex content and texts.

• Trading a deficit lens for one that highlights students' strengths and ways of knowing.