“When People Don't Know Me, They Think…”

Fostering a Multimodal Translanguaging Space that Leverages Students' Voices

Bibliographic Data

ID17717469
AuthorsIvana Espinet (0000-0003-4775-9383, corresponding author), Charene Chapman‐Santiago
Year2022
Volume66
Issue2
Pages91-99
Publication date2022-08-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1081-3004 • E-ISSN: 1936-2706
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/jaal.1256
OpenAlexW4289917707
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited14

This article describes the design and implementation of a project from a translanguaging pedagogical stance. The research presented seeks to understand how translanguaging as a multimodal practice shapes the experiences of students in a traditional English Language Arts 8th‐grade classroom and how students leveraged their multimodal semiotic repertoires to explore identity expression. The article provides a framework for understanding translanguaging as a multimodal practice and discusses how it is embedded strategically in the design of instruction in a class in which many of the students are emergent bilinguals. It analyzes the process of producing short videos in which students critically examine how they were perceived by others and who they really are and presenting data that examine how students defy deficit perspectives and use their multimodal communicative repertoires to curate self‐representation

Aesthetics · Art · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Multimodality · Pedagogy · Semiotics · Sociology · Transformative learning · Translanguaging · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching