ERIC Number: EJ1397192
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1367-0050
EISSN: EISSN-1747-7522
Sustainable Translanguaging Pedagogy in Support of the Vulnerable Language: Honoring Children's Ways of 'Showing' and 'Telling' in an Early Childhood Dual Language Bilingual Education Program
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, v26 n8 p928-942 2023
Show-and-Tell activity provides emergent bilingual (EB) children with an opportunity to engage oral language skills to support their developing bi/literacy. In dual language bilingual education (DLBE) preschool programs, teachers utilize translanguaging practices to facilitate communication, scaffold learning, and encourage participation. Using a sustainable translanguaging lens, we explore English- and Spanish-language model teachers' pedagogical choices in Show-and-Tell in support of children's Show-and-Tell purposes and practices. Video data were analyzed for discourse- and content-related codes to examine teachers' discursive and translanguaging choices and presenters' languaging practices during Show-and-Tell. Qualitative analyses revealed that teachers' translanguaging choices vary in response to the language context (i.e. teacher's designated language of instruction and the target language of the Show-and-Tell) and to children's languaging practices (i.e. choice of language, amount of unprompted talk, purpose of presentation, degree of peer involvement). Given the vulnerable status of Spanish as the minoritized language in an English-majority culture, teachers sustained the use and modeling of Spanish in Spanish Show-and-Tell while integrating Spanish as a supportive resource in English Show-and-Tell. Findings suggest implications for how teachers can protect minoritized languages within DLBE preschool programs while valuing children's authentic translanguaging practices and building on children's understanding language functions and forms in each language.
Descriptors: Translation, Early Childhood Education, Bilingual Education, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Story Telling, English, Spanish, Language Usage, Language Minorities
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Early Childhood Education; Preschool Education
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Language: English
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