Translanguaging from a linguistic perspective

The linguistic practice of multilingual people is known as translanguaging in current multilingualism research, and this approach is the one used here. The following concept gives a brief insight into an educational strategy for making and having pupils themselves make flexible use in class of multilingual pupils' full linguistic repertoire.

Author: Dr. Verena Plutzar
Aims:

Translanguaging is used to express the fact that multilingual people operate within one single language system, namely their own, which they use to create sense and meaning.
As a teaching strategy, translanguaging enables bilingual and multilingual children to use as much of their linguistic repertoire as possible in their learning processes without the teacher's losing sight of curricular requirements. The aim is to make and have the pupils make flexible use of the entire linguistic repertoire of multilingual pupils in class in order to teach both the content of the lesson and the teaching.

Target group:

Teaching staff, professional development staff, school and nursery heads, school and nursery operators

Practical experience:

Pilot in the 2019/20 school year at a Vienna middle school

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