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Translanguaging with Multilingual Students: Learning from Classroom Moments
Ofelia Garc A
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Description for Translanguaging with Multilingual Students: Learning from Classroom Moments
Paperback. Editor(s): Garcia, Ofelia; Kleyn, Tatyana. Num Pages: 250 pages, 4 black & white tables, 14 black & white halftones, 3 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: CFDM; JNFR. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 269 x 18. Weight in Grams: 378.
Looking closely at what happens when translanguaging is actively taken up to teach emergent bilingual students across different contexts, this book focuses on how it is already happening in classrooms as well as how it can be implemented as a pedagogical orientation. It extends theoretical understandings of the concept and highlights its promises and challenges. Using a Transformative Action Research design, six empirically grounded ethnographic case studies describe how translanguaging is used in lesson designs and in the spontaneous moves made by teachers and students during specific teaching moments. The cases shed light on two questions: How, when, and why ... Read more
Looking closely at what happens when translanguaging is actively taken up to teach emergent bilingual students across different contexts, this book focuses on how it is already happening in classrooms as well as how it can be implemented as a pedagogical orientation. It extends theoretical understandings of the concept and highlights its promises and challenges. Using a Transformative Action Research design, six empirically grounded ethnographic case studies describe how translanguaging is used in lesson designs and in the spontaneous moves made by teachers and students during specific teaching moments. The cases shed light on two questions: How, when, and why ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781138906983
SKU
V9781138906983
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99-2
About Ofelia Garc A
Ofelia Garcia is Professor in the Ph.D. programs of Urban Education and Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA. Tatyana Kleyn is Associate Professor in the Bilingual Education and TESOL programs at the City College of New York, USA.
Reviews for Translanguaging with Multilingual Students: Learning from Classroom Moments
Garcia and Kleyn's text portrays a collaborative project on educating bilingual students. The core of the volume demonstrates how translanguaging is put into practice in actual classroom settings. Applying a transformative action research design in several case studies, the authors show how the concept of translanguaging can transform theory, policy, and practice of education in general and bilingual education in ... Read more