"We Could Kind of Put Our Heads Together": A Monolingual Teacher Candidate's Emerging Translingual Disposition

• In Event: Examining Hybrid Linguistic Practices in Teaching and Learning

Abstract

Extant scholarship has examined the development of in-service teachers’ translingual dispositions (Canagarajah, 2013), but less is known about the development of translingual dispositions among monolingual English-speaking teacher candidates (TC). Using van Leeuwen’s (2008) critical discourse analysis, this study investigates how one TC negotiates assimilationist language ideologies throughout the development of her translingual disposition. Findings reveal that while it is possible for her to develop a translingual disposition, the process is messy and often butts up against well-sedimented ideologies. Implications suggest that teachers and teacher educators alike must problematize broader ideologies and their own culpability in perpetuating linguistic and racialized oppression in order to develop the translingual dispositions needed to co-construct classrooms as democratic translanguaging spaces.

Author

• Christina M. Ponzio, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor