The Translanguaging Pedagogies Continuum

Authors

Marcela Ossa Parra, CUNY Queens CollegeFollow
Patrick Proctor, Boston College

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-2022

Abstract

Translanguaging pedagogy is an approach to educational equity that harnesses multilingual learners’ communicative repertoires (e.g., home languages, non-standard varieties, gestures) by strategically incorporating them in the classroom to ensure students’ active participation and meaningful learning. This paper proposes a research-informed continuum that captures a range of possibilities for integrating translanguaging in language and literacy instruction. This continuum provides insight into how educators may make socially just instructional and curricular decisions that are based on recognizing multilingual students' languages, cultures, and ways of knowing as valuable assets in the classroom.

Comments

This is the accepted manuscript of : Ossa Parra, Marcela and Patrick Proctor. "The Translanguaging Pedagogies Continuum," Journal of Education https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00220574211053587