Translanguaging as a Strategic Essentialism to Shuttle Orientations Specific to Learners
Table 3: Classroom implications using translanguaging
Included multilingual texts in the classroom library and encouraged reading in LOTEs. |
Established a constellation of literacy practices that makes multilingualism the norm, rather than the exception, in the classroom. |
Managed to get students interviewed classmates about their language practices, created a multilingual word wall, and shared some of their own language-learning experiences. |
Discussed with students the rewards and challenges of their emerging bilingualism |