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What Teachers Need to Know About English Language Learners' Translanguaging in the Classroom

What Teachers Need to Know About English Language Learners' Translanguaging in the Classroom

Laila Aghai
ISBN13: 9781522593485|ISBN10: 1522593489|EISBN13: 9781522593492
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9348-5.ch007
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Aghai, Laila. "What Teachers Need to Know About English Language Learners' Translanguaging in the Classroom." Handbook of Research on Assessment Practices and Pedagogical Models for Immigrant Students, edited by Jared Keengwe and Grace Onchwari, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 109-126. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9348-5.ch007

APA

Aghai, L. (2019). What Teachers Need to Know About English Language Learners' Translanguaging in the Classroom. In J. Keengwe & G. Onchwari (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Assessment Practices and Pedagogical Models for Immigrant Students (pp. 109-126). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9348-5.ch007

Chicago

Aghai, Laila. "What Teachers Need to Know About English Language Learners' Translanguaging in the Classroom." In Handbook of Research on Assessment Practices and Pedagogical Models for Immigrant Students, edited by Jared Keengwe and Grace Onchwari, 109-126. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-9348-5.ch007

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Abstract

This qualitative research study focuses on English language learners who are continuing their education in the U.S. high schools and examines their translanguaging in the classroom. When students are learning a second language, they use their linguistic repertoire and their knowledge in English and their native language for negotiation of meaning. In order to gain a better understanding of the students' translanguaging, one ESL teacher and 10 ESL students were interviewed and observed in a classroom. The ESL students spoke Arabic as their native language and had beginning to intermediate proficiency levels. The findings of the study showed that English language learners use various strategies to make the content comprehensible by making connections between their knowledge in their L1 and L2.

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