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Translanguaging and Disciplinary Literacies

Sat, April 10, 2:30 to 4:00pm EDT (2:30 to 4:00pm EDT), SIG Sessions, SIG-Language and Social Processes Paper and Symposium Sessions

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A wealth of research demonstrates that bilingual students benefit from full access to their linguistic resources in a variety of disciplinary contexts (e.g., Authors, 2015; Espinosa & Herrera, 2016; Welch, 2015). To extend this work, this session aims to explore the ways that translanguaging practices intersect with and support disciplinary practices and literacies. Identifying these intersections could support bilingual students in disciplinary activities, framing their everyday linguistic practices as core aspects of disciplinary activities. In this session, we explore syncretic design approaches (Gutíerrez & Jurow, 2016) that bridge translanguaging and disciplinary practices. These designs support bilingual students and, in some cases, their monolingual peers as well.

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