Unleashing and Sustaining the Potential of Translanguaging Pedagogies in Second Language Learning Contexts Through Teacher-Researcher Collaboration

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

While translanguaging have demonstrated pedagogical promises to serve emergent bilinguals, we have yet to find sustainable ways to make translanguaging pedagogies norms in our classroom spaces. This work requires researchers to develop a deep knowledge of and relationship with various classroom contexts. Therefore, we believe that it is crucial to adopt equitable forms of teacher-researcher collaboration to unleash and realize the potential of translanguaging pedagogies in language classrooms. This symposium brings together four groups of scholars who work with teachers closely to co-design and implement translanguaging pedagogies in different second language learning contexts. It aims to highlight the possibilities and challenges of teacher-researcher collaboration and call for more participatory research to resist the monolingual bias that pervades educational institutions today.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Second Language Research

Chairs

• Zhongfeng Tian, The University of Texas at San Antonio

• Leah Shepard-Carey, Drake University

Papers

• Translanguaging Pedagogies With Young Emergent Bilinguals: Collaboration and Complexity in "Stances, Design, and Shifts" - Leah Shepard-Carey, Drake University

• Translanguaging Collaborative Design: Leveraging Student Multilingualism in a TESOL Classroom - Zhongfeng Tian, The University of Texas at San Antonio

• Designing Translingual Pedagogies: Exploring Pedagogical Translation Through a Classroom Teaching Experiment - Mark Barba Pacheco, University of Florida; Samuel David, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities; Robert T. Jimenez, Vanderbilt University

• Resisting Monolingualism: Plurilingual Pedagogy in a Bilingual Country With Monolingual Policies - Angelica Galante, McGill University; Diane Querrien, Concordia University

Discussant

• Melinda E. Martin-Beltran, University of Maryland - College Park