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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
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Author(s): Laila Aghai (University of North Dakota, USA)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 18
Source title: Handbook of Research on Assessment Practices and Pedagogical Models for Immigrant Students
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jared Keengwe (University of North Dakota, USA)and Grace Onchwari (University of North Dakota, USA)
DOI: 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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