1st Edition

The Complex and Dynamic Languaging Practices of Emergent Bilinguals

Edited By Mileidis Gort Copyright 2018
178 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

This expanded edition of the International Multilingual Research Journal’s recent special issue on translanguaging — or the dynamic, normative languaging practices of bilinguals — presents a powerful, comprehensive volume on current scholarship on this topic. Translanguaging can be understood from multiple perspectives. From a sociolinguistic point of view, it describes the flexible language... Read more

Introduction Mileidis Gort

1. Translanguaging in an Infant Classroom: Using Multiple Languages to Make Meaning Sarah Garrity, Cristian R. Aquino-Sterling and Ashley Day

2. Navigating Hybridized Language Learning Spaces Through Translanguaging Pedagogy: Dual Language Preschool Teachers’ Languaging Practices in Support of Emergent Bilingual Children’s Performance of Academic Discourse Mileidis Gort and Sabrina Sembiante

3. Coordinated Translanguaging Pedagogies as Distributed Cognition: A Case Study of Two Dual Language Bilingual Education Preschool Coteachers’ Languaging Practices During Shared Book Readings Ryan Pontier and Mileidis Gort

4. Unpacking Ideologies of Linguistic Purism: How Dual Language Teachers Make Sense of Everyday Translanguaging Ramón Antonio Martínez, Michiko Hikida and Leah Durán

5. Translanguaging Practices as Mobilization of Linguistic Resources in a Spanish/English Bilingual After-School Program: An Analysis of Contradictions Carmen María Martínez-Roldán

6. "What Do You Want to Say?" How Adolescents Use Translanguaging to Expand Learning Opportunities Melinda Martin-Beltrán

7. Theorizing Translanguaging and Multilingual Literacies Through Human Capital Theory Patrick H. Smith and Luz A. Murillo

8. Many Mansions: Conceptualizing Translingual Curriculum Alsu Gilmetdinova and Jake Burdick

Afterword Ofelia Garcia

Biography

Mileidis Gort is Professor of Bilingual Education and Biliteracy at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. Her research focuses on the complex and varied ways in which emergent bilingual children use their dynamic linguistic and cultural funds of knowledge to learn and interact with teachers and peers in dual language classrooms.