Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning
The Translanguaging Classroom, Second Edition
Special Education, K-12

The concept of translanguaging—using a child’s full linguistic repertoire, or all of their linguistic resources, to make meaning—is key to bilingual students’ success in school and beyond. Created by some of the most prominent leaders in the field of educating bilingual students, this second edition provides the foundational knowledge teachers need to understand translanguaging and use it strategically and meaningfully to support bilingual learners.

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The concept of translanguaging—using a child’s full linguistic repertoire, or all of their linguistic resources, to make meaning—is key to bilingual students’ success in school and beyond. Created by some of the most prominent leaders in the field of educating bilingual students, this second edition provides the foundational knowledge teachers need to understand translanguaging and use it strategically and meaningfully to support bilingual learners.

A revised and updated new edition of a highly influential bestseller, this book is ideal for pre- and in-service educators of Grades 4–12 in English-medium and bilingual classrooms. Educators will discover how asset-based translanguaging pedagogies can level the playing field for bilingual students and help them develop essential skills in all their languages—all while honoring their identity and culture.

LEARN HOW TO:

  • Help bilingual students become better readers and writers by accessing different features of their languages
  • Plan and implement effective translanguaging designs for instruction
  • Integrate mandated standards into translanguaging instructional designs
  • Support bilingual students as they engage with and comprehend complex content and texts
  • Use translanguaging design for assessment to holistically evaluate students’ content and language learning
  • Leverage translanguaging to support social justice and social-emotional well-being

WHAT’S NEW: This updated edition includes the latest research on translanguaging, engages with the exciting expansion of biliteracy in U.S. schools, discusses translanguaging in relation to literacy and comprehension, and deepens the connection between translanguaging and social justice.

PRACTICAL FEATURES: Get learning objectives for each chapter, reflection questions and activities, Taking Action prompts for analyzing classroom practices, examples of authentic student work, and a package of downloadable templates and tools to support instruction and assessment.

About the Online Materials

About the Authors

Foreword by Guadalupe Valdés, Ph.D.

Preface

Acknowledgments

 

Section I: Dynamic Bilingualism at School

Chapter 1: Translanguaging Classrooms: Contexts and Instructional Purposes

Chapter 2: Translanguaging Classrooms: Transformative Social Purposes

Chapter 3: Language Practices and the Translanguaging Classroom Framework

Chapter 4: Observing, Documenting, and Understanding Students’ Translanguaging Performances

Appendix 4.1: Promoting An Ecology of Multilingualism Checklist

Appendix 4.2: Bilingual Student Identification Checklist and Profile

Appendix 4.3: Classroom Bilingual Profile

 

Section II: Translanguaging Pedagogy

Chapter 5: Translanguaging Stance

Chapter 6: Translanguaging Design for Instruction: The Classroom Space and Instructional Framework

Appendix 6.1: Translanguaging Unit Planning Template

Appendix 6.2: Translanguaging Instructional Design Cycle

Chapter 7: Translanguaging Design for Instruction: Pedagogical Practices that Make Space for and Leverage Translanguaging

Chapter 8: Translanguaging Design in Assessment

Appendix 8.1: Teacher’s Assessment Tool for Translanguaging Classrooms

Appendix 8.2: Student Self-Assessment Tool

Appendix 8.3: Peer Group Assessment Tool

Appendix 8.4: Family Assessment Tool: La Conexión

Appendix 8.5: Teacher’s Integrative Class Assessment Tool

Chapter 9: Translanguaging Pedagogy in Action

Appendix 9.1: Reflecting And Planning for a Translanguaging Pedagogy

 

Section III: Reimagining Teaching and Learning Through Translanguaging

Chapter 10: Standards in the Translanguaging Classroom

Chapter 11: Developing Literacies in the Translanguaging Classroom

Chapter 12: Biliteracy in the Translanguaging Classroom

Chapter 13: Socioemotional Well-Being and Social Justice

 

Afterword by Nelson Flores, Ph.D.

Glossary

References

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