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Introduction to Translanguaging Pedagogy

September PD

Multilingual Department

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Bienvenidos

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  • Throughout this session, you will be prompted to pause your video and head over to this Padlet to answer reflection questions. You may also scan the QR code below to access it on your phone.
  • To practice, head to the Padlet (clicking on the link in the slide deck - you’ll have to have this slide deck open, or take a picture of the QR code) and answer the first question, “Why did you decide to take this session?”

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Why Are You Here?

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  • Seré capaz de definir el concepto de translanguar después de escuchar a Ofelia García explicando el concepto.
    • I will be able to define translanguaging by listening to Ofelia García explaining the concept.
  • Seré capaz de aplicar el concepto a la instrucción después de ver ejemplos y videos.
    • I will be able to apply the concept to instruction after viewing examples and videos.
  • Seré capaz de reflexionar sobre mis propias prácticas en preparación para el año escolar.
    • I will be able to reflect about my own practices in preparation for the school year.

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Learning Objectives

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Background

What is Translanguaging?

  • It is the concept of using language as a unitary, meaning- making system.
  • It is always in and with bilinguals.
  • It is a priority over the notion of named languages.
  • The notion that we have one linguistic repertoire from which we select features that are appropriate to communicate.

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*If this is true for us, it is true for our students.

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Stance

What is Translanguaging?

  • García differentiates between the concepts of ‘having a language’ and ‘languaging.’

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“When translanguaging is not allowed in schools, bilingual students are placed at a disadvantage because they are assessed on only a portion of their linguistic repertoires and are taught in ways that do not fully leverage their language resources.”

-García, Johnson, & Selter, The Translanguaging Classroom, p. 11

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Stance

What is Translanguaging?

Use the padlet to answer the next question: What questions do you have about translanguaging so far?

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Translanguaging Progressions

Knowing Your Students

Students are assessed in both languages to understand the student as a whole bilingual child.

Oral language (Speaking and Listening) and Literacy (Reading and Writing) allow for the child to demonstrate performance on various tasks, showcasing their bilingualism.

A progression at the top is shown to represent 1) how students are scored on tasks and 2) how language progresses

At the beginning of the year, teachers administer tasks for students to demonstrate their bilingualism and tune instruction to the various linguistic performances in the classroom.

🔷Additionally, teachers take time at conferences to share the progression with families and, without showing the teacher notes, allow families to fill in the progression on their student.

García, Johnson, & Selter, The Translanguaging Classroom, p. 45

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Knowing Your Students

https://www.cuny-nysieb.org/classroom-videos/ambassador/gladys/ and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LK7kUA_7FV0

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Instruction

Creating Translanguaging Spaces

In planning:

  • Essential questions
  • Content & language objectives
    • General linguistic
    • Language-specific
  • Translanguaging Objectives
    • Cross-language transfer & connections
  • Culminating project
    • What students will do with their connections

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Instruction

Creating Translanguaging Spaces

Use the padlet to answer the next question:

How do you see a translanguaging stance & instruction show up in Gladys’ classroom?

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MPS Examples

Thanks to Fowzia Ahmed, Lindsay Brooks, and Rachel Powers for your examples!

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Distance Learning

Why in Distance Learning?

  • Connecting with families & providing support in home language increases engagement and inclusion;
  • Allows students to show all they know, particularly at a time when interaction is low;
  • Use students’ home language creatively in assignments and examples, allowing them to own their bilingualism;
  • Prompts us to rethink the way we are teaching and how we are including students’ culture and promoting cross-cultural competence

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Use the padlet to answer the next question:

How could you use translanguaging this upcoming school year? What can that do for your students?

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Closing

Thank you!

Complete the final closing and reflection in this Google Form

(copy and paste your answers from the Padlet):

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