Original title: Teaching English through pedagogical translanguaging
Some English classes try to use only English. This can stop students from using what they already know in other languages. Pedagogical translanguagingPlanned teaching strategies that use two or more languages together. means teachers plan activities that use two or more languages together. The goal is to develop students’ languages and help them notice how language works.
Imagine making dinner with ingredients you already have in the cupboard. A recipe that insists on using only one ingredient can leave useful food untouched. In this paper, the ingredients are the languages students already know, and the recipe is English teaching that deliberately brings those languages together.
Students learning English may already have useful knowledge in other languages. Teachers who deliberately connect those languages with English can treat students as multilingual speakers and draw on their existing resources, rather than requiring English alone.
The abstract discusses the approach and its aims, but does not report classroom trials, measured learning outcomes, or which specific teaching strategies are most effective. It does not establish how well the approach works in particular settings.
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Teaching English through pedagogical translanguaging — Jasone Cenoz, Durk Gorter — World Englishes — doi:10.1111/weng.12462
Abstract licence: CC BY
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