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0000-0001-8883-2407
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University of South Australia
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Publisher: Deakin University
Date: 19-12-2019
DOI: 10.21153/TESOL2019VOL28NO1ART869
Abstract: Amongst Australian EAL specialists there is increasing recognition of the value of incorporating students’ home languages and cultural knowledge into teaching and learning. However there remains a need for guiding principles for developing effective multilingual and translanguaging approaches for erse educational contexts. This paper presents some classroom approaches and suggest principles for effective multilingual curriculum and pedagogy.An ethnographic study in an Australian high school revealed that students used their multilingual repertoires to support learning in idually, collaboratively and through access to external information. Teachers responded by rejecting, accepting or actively engaging students’ multilingual resources.Analysis of these teaching approaches suggests some principles for effective multilingual classroom practice. Successful multilingual pedagogies require both teachers and students to challenge the “monolingual mindset” (Clyne, 2008) of Australian education. Attention to both vertical and horizontal dimensions of multilingualism (Heugh, 2018) is also crucial. Additional principles include affirming multilingualism, attending to affect, developing shared learning outcomes, defining a social purpose and addressing practical considerations. A key to success is that multilingual and translanguaging pedagogies are developed from students’ existing multilingual practices.It is hoped that proposing these principles can extend discussion and research around the use of multilingual resources in school-based learning.
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 04-10-2016
Publisher: Castledown Publishers
Date: 30-04-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-07-2023
Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
Date: 07-07-2020
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 30-11-2016
Publisher: Castledown Publishers
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