Poster #56 - Translanguaging With Elementary Students in a Dual-Language Setting: Toward Understanding Dynamic Bilingual Writing

• In Event: 25.087 - MTCC Poster Session Four
  In Poster Session: 25.087-7 - Bilingual Education Research SIG Poster Session

Abstract

This project investigates the dynamic bilingual (Spanish/English) writing and translanguaging practices of elementary students in an after-school writing club. Through a sociocultural (Vygotsky, 1978) and translanguaging lens (Garcia& Wei, 2014), I examine the “fluid practices that go between and beyond socially constructed language and educational systems, structures, and practices to engage diverse students’ multiple meaning-making systems and
subjectivities” (Garcia & Wei, 2014, p. 3) to answer the question of what patterns of language use emerge when using translanguaging pedagogy with bilingual students. The study hopes to contribute to the theoretical and pedagogical approaches to teaching bilingual writing.

Author

• Margarita Gómez Zisselsberger, Loyola University Maryland