This episode is made in collaboration with NALDIC.
EAL Journal deputy editor Leandro Paladino joins me once more as we follow up on the latest article in the EAL Essentials series on the topic of Translanguaging.
The article is published in the autumn 2022 edition of the EAL Journal, which reflects the theme of the 2022 NALDIC conference: ‘Every teacher is a language teacher’.
We discuss some aspects of the theory of translanguaging, as well as what translanguaging might look like in the classroom. You’ll find links to useful sources in the links below this description.
NALDIC is the national subject association for English as an additional language. Their website provides a lot of very useful information on supporting multilingual learners in the classroom, as well as links to upcoming opportunities for professional development. The blog and termly magazine are available to members.
https://naldic.org.uk/
The ROMtels project offers free guidance handbooks for translanguaging. The handbooks include more information on the allow-encourage-enable stages of translanguaging.
https://research.ncl.ac.uk/romtels/
Bilingual Education in the 21st century (Ofelia Garcia) - The book by Ofelia Garcia which is recommended in the article, and mentioned in our conversation is available on amazon.co.uk
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bilingual-Education-21st-Century-Perspective/dp/1405119942
Multilingual Perspectives on Translanguaging (Jeff McSwann)- This book This book brings together a broad, interdisciplinary group of leading scholars to critically assess a recent proposal within translanguaging theory called deconstructivism: the view that discrete or ‘named’ languages do not exist. The upcoming edition of the EAL Journal will include a review of this book! available on amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Multilingual-Perspectives-Translanguaging-Education-Diversity/dp/1800415672
Storyweaver is an online library of multilingual children’s books.
www.storyweaver.org.in
The study on the effects of disqualifying children’s home language I mention is Agirdag, O., 2017. Het straffen van meertaligheid op school: de schaamte voorbij. In Meertaligheid en onderwijs: Nederlands Plus. Boom; Amsterdam, pp. 44–52.
Other scholars worth mentioning are Suresh Canagarajah and Alastair Pennycook. Several of their works can be found through a search on Google Scholar.
