What does translanguaging-for-equity really involve? An interactional analysis of a 9th grade English class

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21196448
AutoresAnna Mendoza (0000-0003-4323-0423, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen13
Número6
Páginas1055-1075
Fecha de publicación2022-11-25
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaApplied Linguistics Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1868-6303 • E-ISSN: 1868-6311
EditorialWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1515/applirev-2019-0106
OpenAlexW3042635855
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas7
Referencias citadas41

While much research on translanguaging is in bilingual and heritage language classrooms, it is under-researched in K-12 English-medium education. To better understand translanguaging in this context, this study applied interactional sociolinguistics, including analytical categories adapted from Conversation-for-Learning (Kasper and Kim, 2015; Kim, 2019), to a ninth grade English class in Honolulu with students from diverse linguistic backgrounds. The study examined interactional sequences as students did literary analysis of novels and poetry over 13 weeks. These sequences involved appropriation of others’ lexical phrases, collaborative word searches, miscommunication repair, and knowledge checks. Translanguaging, when it occurred, indicated joint meaning-making across linguistic asymmetries, and was not only a means of thinking aloud using an integrated language repertoire, but a form of helping peers as students signaled to each other to adopt language, teach them something, or work through a problem together, creating opportunities to learn. These findings suggest that equity hinges not only on allowing students to learn using their whole linguistic repertoires but on social and ethical dispositions made apparent through interactional analyses

Conversation · Linguistics · Pedagogy · Sociology · Translanguaging · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning · Multilingual Education and Policy · Psychology · Second Language Learning and Teaching