Translating translanguaging into our classrooms: Possibilities and challenges
With a focus on Australian Aboriginal students, in this article we argue that translanguaging provides a useful resource for multilingual learners. We point out that although translanguaging is a relatively recent term, in Indigenous Australia is has been used consistently throughout the ages as peo...
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| description | With a focus on Australian Aboriginal students, in this article we argue that translanguaging provides a useful resource for multilingual learners. We point out that although translanguaging is a relatively recent term, in Indigenous Australia is has been used consistently throughout the ages as people from different languages communicated with each other. We argue that through the use of translanguaging in the classroom, children can be supported to draw on the wide range of linguistic resources they bring with them to school. Using data collected from an Aboriginal school in the Northern Territory and one in Western Australia, we illustrate the ways in which this perspective can inform approaches to teaching which will both enhance these learners’ communication skills in Standard Australian English (SAE) in the classroom, and, importantly, at the same time demonstrate that the languages the children come to school with are valued. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-829922021-05-11T01:34:16Z Translating translanguaging into our classrooms: Possibilities and challenges Oliver, Rhonda Wigglesworth, G. Angelo, D. Steele, Carly Social Sciences Education & Educational Research Linguistics Aboriginal classroom indigenous multilingual Standard Australian English (SAE) translanguaging LANGUAGE CHILDREN EDUCATION ENGLISH With a focus on Australian Aboriginal students, in this article we argue that translanguaging provides a useful resource for multilingual learners. We point out that although translanguaging is a relatively recent term, in Indigenous Australia is has been used consistently throughout the ages as people from different languages communicated with each other. We argue that through the use of translanguaging in the classroom, children can be supported to draw on the wide range of linguistic resources they bring with them to school. Using data collected from an Aboriginal school in the Northern Territory and one in Western Australia, we illustrate the ways in which this perspective can inform approaches to teaching which will both enhance these learners’ communication skills in Standard Australian English (SAE) in the classroom, and, importantly, at the same time demonstrate that the languages the children come to school with are valued. 2021 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82992 10.1177/1362168820938822 English http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170101735 SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Social Sciences Education & Educational Research Linguistics Aboriginal classroom indigenous multilingual Standard Australian English (SAE) translanguaging LANGUAGE CHILDREN EDUCATION ENGLISH Oliver, Rhonda Wigglesworth, G. Angelo, D. Steele, Carly Translating translanguaging into our classrooms: Possibilities and challenges |
| title | Translating translanguaging into our classrooms: Possibilities and challenges |
| title_full | Translating translanguaging into our classrooms: Possibilities and challenges |
| title_fullStr | Translating translanguaging into our classrooms: Possibilities and challenges |
| title_full_unstemmed | Translating translanguaging into our classrooms: Possibilities and challenges |
| title_short | Translating translanguaging into our classrooms: Possibilities and challenges |
| title_sort | translating translanguaging into our classrooms: possibilities and challenges |
| topic | Social Sciences Education & Educational Research Linguistics Aboriginal classroom indigenous multilingual Standard Australian English (SAE) translanguaging LANGUAGE CHILDREN EDUCATION ENGLISH |
| url | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP170101735 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/82992 |