{"pk":35997,"title":"Creating a Translanguaging Space for High School Emergent Bilinguals","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Translanguaging is a rapidly developing concept in bilingual education. Working from the theoretical background\nof dynamic bilingualism, a translanguaging lens posits\nthat bilingual learners draw on a holistic linguistic repertoire to make sense of the world and to communicate\neffectively with texts. What is relatively underdeveloped\nis the pedagogical aspects of translanguaging. This classroom-based study conducted in the southeastern US asks\n2 questions: (a) How might teachers create a translanguaging space for students, and (b) what would this space look\nlike? The authors, 1 classroom teacher and 1 researcher,\nengaged emergent bilingual students in small group reading of a culturally relevant text and observed students’\nactive participation through strategic and fluid translanguaging practices. The authors argue that the linguistic\nnorms of schooling should reflect the discursive norms\nof emergent bilingual students, and that teachers create\ntranslanguaging spaces as a path to educational equity","language":"eng","license":null,"keywords":[],"section":"Theme Section - Feature Articles","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7mv5w2th","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Shuzhan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Li","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Florida, Gainesville","department":""},{"first_name":"Wenjing","middle_name":"","last_name":"Luo","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Florida, Gainesville","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2017-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/catesoljournal/article/35997/galley/26849/download/"}]}