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(Re)Centering Criticality in Language Education: Exploring Translanguaging as Consequential Praxis

Sun, April 16, 8:00 to 9:30am CDT (8:00 to 9:30am CDT), Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, Floor: Level 4, Chicago Ballroom VIII

Session Type: Symposium

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Translanguaging theory posits that bi/multilingual students have singular, dynamic repertoires of communicative features and seeks to subvert monolingual norms and language standardization that perpetuate the marginalization of bi/multilingual learners (García, 2009). Yet, recent critiques challenge the transformative capacity of translanguaging, whether by discursive drift (Jaspers, 2018) or through its focus on affirmation/representation over the political/material conditions of schooling (Block, 2018). This symposium seeks to reinvigorate the critical roots of translanguaging theory, exploring how translanguaging can serve as framework and pedagogy for interrogating and subverting linguistic, racial, and other hierarchies. Through a large-scale literature review and four critically-oriented empirical studies of translanguaging, we reveal translanguaging’s decolonizing, transformative dimensions and propose directions forward for language teaching and research.

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