77.042 - Translanguaging Embodied: Students' Expanded Translanguaging Practices Across Contexts

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Recently, educators have taken up an approach to teaching and learning with multilingual people called translanguaging pedagogy. At this juncture, it is critical for researchers and practitioners to deepen understandings of what translanguaging is, how students engage in it, how teachers support it, and what purposes it serves in learning. We bring together researchers to explore how an expansive view of translanguaging -- in which translanguaging includes both linguistic and semiotic features -- better captures students’ lived worlds and allows teachers to build upon a larger range of students’ expressions. The papers in this symposium highlight how multilinguals assemble linguistic, embodied, and multimodal forms of languaging in coordinated performances across disciplines, and how recognizing these can shape equitable teaching and learning environments.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Bilingual Education Research

Chair

• Jérémie Séror, University of Ottawa

Papers

• Pushing the Boundaries of Translanguaging: Documenting Bilinguals' Practices in Computer Science - Sara Vogel, Graduate Center, City University of New York; Laura Ascenzi-Moreno, Brooklyn College - CUNY; Christopher Hoadley, New York University; Kate Menken, Queens College and Graduate Center, City University of New York

• Pushing Boundaries: The Semiotic and Linguistic Meaning-Making of Emergent Bilinguals During Science Instruction - Briana Ronan, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

• Digital en Dos Idiomas: Multimodal Intervention as Translanguaging Pedagogy - Carlos Martínez-Cano, University of Pennsylvania

• Multilingual Family Story-Making Through Community Translanguaging - Sujin Kim, George Mason University; Kim Hyunsook Song, University of Missouri - St. Louis