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David, Samuel S.; Cole, Mikel W. – Classroom Discourse, 2021
This article, a case study of a single instance of collaborative translation in the classroom, explores the role of material mediation and embodied activity in the linguistic problem solving work of emergent multilinguals. We describe one teacher's lesson with a small group of Spanish speaking students in her 7th grade ESL classroom. Collaborative…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Axelrod, Ysaaca; Cole, Mikel W. – Journal of Early Childhood Literacy, 2018
In this paper, we utilize the theory of "translanguaging" to make sense of the biliterate activities of young emergent bilinguals in a before-school program for Latinx students at an elementary school. Our findings show that even early writers are able to draw from their full linguistic repertoire, utilizing orthographic and syntactic…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Translation, Bilingualism, Hispanic American Students