Translanguaging as a political stance: implications for English language education
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Li Wei [1]
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[1] UCL Institute of Education (UK)
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- Localización: ELT journal: An international journal for teachers of English to speakers of other languages, ISSN 0951-0893, Vol. 76, Nº 2, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Special Issue: Rethinking the roles of ELT in English-medium education in multilingual university settings), págs. 172-182
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Resumen
Following the multilingual trend in language education, translanguaging advocates active use of multiple languages and other meaning-making resources in a dynamic and integrated way in teaching and learning. When it comes to foreign language education, translanguaging advocates a view that the languages the learners already have should and can play a very positive role in learning additional languages. Moreover, the knowledge already acquired through the learners’ first and/or prior learned languages also plays an important role in foreign-language-medium education. This view is more than a pedagogic or theoretical perspective; it is a political stance, a decolonizing stance, that this article explores. It discusses the implications of the political naming of languages and critiques notions such as academic English
