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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
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