14.045-4 - Everyday Practices in Transcultural and Translingual Communities: Connections to School

• In Event: 14.045 - Roundtable Session 2

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This session examines how the everyday bi-/multi-lingual practices of immigrant youth in a variety of cross-national contexts (i.e. Australia, Canada, Spain, and the U.S.) can be leveraged in the acquisition of formal academic skills. While Cultural Modeling inspired research has often focused on relatively established community practices (Lee 2007), this session identifies emergent and dynamic practices that bi/multi-lingual immigrant youth use in their daily engagements. Building bridges between this ethnographically generated knowledge and pedagogical practice, the papers suggests specific ways in which youth’s codeswitching and translanguaging practices can be used for standardized test-taking skills, academic writing, and literacy instruction. The international scope of the session is important as changing demographic trends affect the linguistic landscapes of many educational systems.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 3: Studies of the multiple languages and literacies of varied social contexts

Chair

• Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, University of California - Los Angeles

Papers

• Apprenticeship Learning: An Analogue for Standardized Writing Tasks - Christine Brigid Malsbary, Vassar College

• Where Everyday Translanguaging Meets Academic Writing: Exploring Tensions and Generative Connections for Bilingual Latina/o Students - Ramon Antonio Martinez, Stanford University

• Beyond Translanguaging: Building on Shared Linguistic Heritage for Academic Literacy Development Among Immigrant Students - Inmaculada Maria Garcia Sanchez, Temple University

• Mobilizing Community Resources for Literacy Development: New Pedagogies for New Times - Rahat Naqvi, University of Calgary

• Reimagining Literacy Pedagogies: Cultivating Transcultural, Translingual Competencies - Jacqueline A. D'warte, University of Western Sydney

Discussant

• Marjorie Faulstich Orellana, University of California - Los Angeles