ERIC Number: EJ1449970
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 27
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ISSN: ISSN-1542-7587
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Translingual Crossings: An Enactive-Performative Approach to a Pedagogical Guide for the Teaching of Portuguese as a Welcoming Language to Children
Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, v21 n4 p387-413 2024
This article revisits the "jongo" activity 'Pisei na Pedra' (2014) integrated into the "Nossa Casinha" guide (Martins & Sala, 2022) for teaching Portuguese to migrant children. "Jongo" is seen as an Afro-Brazilian form of expression, encompassing chants, drumming, collective dance, and spirituality (Rufino, 2014, 2023). The connection between this assembly (Pennycook, 2018) and an enactive-performative pedagogy, uniting biological and aesthetic aspects of poetic languages (Aden & Eschenauer, 2020; Maturana & Varela, 1987; Lecoq, 1997, cited in Aden & Eschenauer, 2020), forms a translingual framework. This allows "jongo" to be understood as an Afro-diasporic expression in anti-racist education. This perspective also affirms the aesthetic, emergent, experiential, embodied, and transformative nature of "jongo" as a decolonial practice. By challenging the conservative approach of language activities favoring compartmentalization, assimilation, and monolingualism, the translingual framework promotes transformative education in Portuguese as an additional language. It embraces complexity, relationality, and affectivity as integral to our experiences in linguistic education.
Descriptors: Portuguese, Transformative Learning, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Immigrants, Correlation, Teaching Methods, Blacks, African Culture, Music, Dance, Aesthetics, Racism, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Guides, Child Care, Learning Activities, Theory Practice Relationship, Children, Refugees
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Brazil
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