Hablando Pa'tras: Examining the Messy Road to Translanguage a Bilingual Teacher Preparation Program

• In Event: Roundtable Session 42
  In Roundtable Session: Multilingual Pedagogies: Spaces for Flexible Language Use in Bilingual Settings

Abstract

Using what Moraga & Anzaldúa (1981) called “theory of the flesh” (p. 23), two teacher educators in a Bilingual teacher preparation program engaged in a dialogical conversation through their experiences working directly with future bilingual teachers while struggling to resist the hegemony of English as the language of academia. After sharing their separate research on translanguaguing practices within the same program, their findings revealed a slow but steady change in language ideology in the bilingual preparation program itself. Likewise, the use of translanguaging has also fostered more politically engaged future bilingual teachers as the use of such linguistic practices impacted students’ emerging understanding of the complexities in the field of bilingual education.

Authors

• Daniel Heiman, The University of Texas - Austin

• Blanca Gabriela Caldas, The University of Texas - Austin