(Re)imagining Translanguaging Pedagogies through Teacher-Researcher Collaboration

by Leah Shepard-Carey (Editor), Zhongfeng Tian (Editor)

Overview

This book presents one possible pathway towards the advancement of translanguaging pedagogies: teacher–researcher partnerships. Although the existing literature alludes to the value of such partnerships, there is a lack of research that explicitly describes the complex processes of designing and implementing translanguaging pedagogies in primary and secondary school settings (K-12) across various international contexts. Through an expanded focus on teacher–researcher collaboration and the negotiation process, the book unpacks the opportunities and challenges of engaging in contextualized translanguaging designs with reference to broader ideological discourses and systemic structures. By promoting and highlighting teacher–researcher partnerships as one avenue for improvement and transparency, the chapters in this book demonstrate the potential of translanguaging pedagogies in classrooms and further resist the linguistic hierarchies that exist in educational institutions today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800413160
Publisher:	Channel View Publications
Publication date:	06/08/2023
Series:	Translanguaging in Theory and Practice , #5
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.15(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Leah Shepard-Carey is Assistant Professor of Graduate Studies in the School of Education at Drake University, USA. Her research explores multilingual pedagogies in English-medium settings, supporting critical language awareness and culturally-sustaining pedagogies in teacher education, and collaborative and design-based approaches to educational research.

Zhongfeng Tian is Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education at Rutgers University–Newark, USA. His research centers on working with pre- and in-service teachers to provide bi/multilingual students with equitable and inclusive learning environments in ESL and dual language immersion contexts. He is the co-editor of two books Envisioning TESOL through a Translanguaging Lens (Springer, 2020) and English-Medium Instruction and Translanguaging (Multilingual Matters, 2021).

Table of Contents

Contributors

Leah Shepard-Carey and Zhongfeng Tian: Preface

Ofelia García: Foreword: Doing Translanguaging Research/Teaching/Learning Juntos: A Preface to Teacher–Researcher Collaboration

Leah Shepard-Carey and Zhongfeng Tian: Introduction: Teacher–Researcher Collaboration as a Pathway
for Sustaining Translanguaging Pedagogies

Chapter 1. Susana Ibarra Johnson, Mishelle Jurado, Maria Elena Orozco and Michele Trujillo: Transladoras Sin Fronteras: Merging Linguistic Borderlands to Take Up Students’ Translanguaging Corriente

Chapter 2. Shakina Rajendram: Implementing a Collaborative Translanguaging Pedagogy in an Elementary ESL Classroom in Malaysia through Teacher–Researcher Collaboration

Chapter 3. Sunny Man Chu Lau, Marsha Jing-Ji Liaw and Maria José Botelho: 'Did you get what you want?': Negotiating Critical Translanguaging Teaching and Research in Dual Language Classrooms

Chapter 4. Lena Cataldo-Schwarzl and Elizabeth J. Erling: Moving towards Translanguaging Pedagogies: Insights from a Teacher–Researcher Collaboration in Vienna

Chapter 5. Laura Hamman-Ortiz: 'Because We Are Bilingual': Transcending Binaries in Two-Way Immersion through Collaborative Bilingual Identity Texts

Chapter 6. Sally Brown and Margarita Pomare-McDonald: Translanguaging Spaces for Student Literacy Learning: A Researcher–Teacher Partnership

Chapter 7. Toni Dobinson, Stephanie Dryden, Gerard Winkler, Paul Gardner and Paul Mercieca: Towards Translingualism? Collaboration Between Universityand School Teacher-Researchers in an Australian Multilingual Primary School

Chapter 8. Kao Chia-Ling Gupta and Angel M.Y. Lin: Adopting Translanguaging Pedagogies in Critical Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Using Social Issues as the Context: A Teacher–Researcher Collaborative Approach

Chapter 9. Ralph Vacca, Sara Vogel, Laura Ascenzi-Moreno and Christopher Hoadley: Acompañamiento: Centering Vulnerability and Agency in Co-Designing Computing and Translanguaging Curriculum with Teachers

Chapter 10. Caitlin G. McC. Fine, Haeyoung Littich, and Maren Getz: (Trans)formative Assessment Co-design Cycles: Translanguaging Stances and Shifts in a Science Teacher–Researcher Collaboration

Chapter 11. Derek Braun, Brian Seilstad and Somin Kim: What Teacher–Researcher Collaboration Creates: Reflections on Translanguaging Pedagogies from a Central Ohio Adolescent Newcomer Program

Chapter 12. Ashlyn Pierson: Translanguaging and Scientific Modeling in an English-Dominant STEM Classroom

Kate Seltzer: Afterword

Index

Editorial Reviews

...this volume gives detailed accounts of the complex processes of teacher-researcher collaborations for supporting bi/multilingual students by centering TL pedagogies in a wide range of K- 12 contexts across the world. It also provides various collaborative research models to decolonize the power differentials throughout the research process (see Chapter 4, 8 and 10). In this sense, the volume is particularly valuable for researchers and scholars interested in building and sustaining partnerships with classroom teachers or schools to challenge linguistic hegemony in educational institutions. This book is also highly recommended for in-service and pre-service teachers who are theoretically convinced but unsure of what it looks like to plan and implement TL pedagogies in various learning contexts while fitting within the district context. Most of all, this book extends beyond integrating TL into language/literacy classrooms, encompassing TL in English-dominant STEM classrooms, which makes it also useful for those aiming to leverage students’ TL practices for equitable STEM learning and assessment in multilingual settings.

Hannah Kim

This book is a valuable resource for scholars and teachers interested in translanguaging pedagogies and teacher-researcher collaborations. It provides exceptional insights into the importance of fostering sustainability and disrupting prevailing ideologies through these partnerships, and reveals the potential of collaboration in implementing and advancing translanguaging pedagogy [...] This collection advances the theoretical understanding of translanguaging pedagogies, while also providing practical examples to inform and inspire educators, researchers and policy-makers who are committed to the creation of more equitable and inclusive educational spaces for multilingual learners.

Balbina Moncada-Comas

This fascinating volume clearly shows how researcher–teacher collaboration brings new perspectives in the study of translanguaging in educational contexts. Teachers’ views can substantially contribute to informing and developing translanguaging research and, at the same time, collaboration allows for research on translanguaging to have direct impact on the classroom.

Jasone Cenoz

This fascinating volume clearly shows how researcher-teacher collaboration brings new perspectives in the study of translanguaging in educational contexts. Teachers' views can substantially contribute to informing and developing translanguaging research and, at the same time, collaboration allows for research on translanguaging to have direct impact on the classroom.

This fascinating volume clearly shows how researcher-teacher collaboration brings new perspectives in the study of translanguaging in educational contexts. Teachers' views can substantially contribute to informing and developing translanguaging research and, at the same time, collaboration allows for research on translanguaging to have direct impact on the classroom.

-- "Jasone Cenoz, University of the Basque Country, Spain"

Shepard-Carey and Tian's book continues to push our understanding of translanguaging pedagogy forward by demonstrating its potential to transform our pedagogy in multilingual language education. The volume will serve as an important mentor text for researchers and practitioners who want to co-design and carry out collaborative translanguaging-focused projects in classrooms.

Shepard-Carey and Tian's book continues to push our understanding of translanguaging pedagogy forward by demonstrating its potential to transform our pedagogy in multilingual language education. The volume will serve as an important mentor text for researchers and practitioners who want to co-design and carry out collaborative translanguaging-focused projects in classrooms.-- "Peter Sayer, The Ohio State University, USA"

The comprehensive studies in this book demonstrate multifaceted boundary crossings in language, research and teaching, disciplines, learning settings and ideologies. These studies deepen the conversation on translanguaging practices and highlight the importance of collaboration between researchers and classroom teachers in searching for effective paths to equitable education for emergent bilinguals.

The comprehensive studies in this book demonstrate multifaceted boundary crossings in language, research and teaching, disciplines, learning settings and ideologies. These studies deepen the conversation on translanguaging practices and highlight the importance of collaboration between researchers and classroom teachers in searching for effective paths to equitable education for emergent bilinguals.-- "Danling Fu, University of Florida, USA"

From the Publisher

The comprehensive studies in this book demonstrate multifaceted boundary crossings in language, research and teaching, disciplines, learning settings and ideologies. These studies deepen the conversation on translanguaging practices and highlight the importance of collaboration between researchers and classroom teachers in searching for effective paths to equitable education for emergent bilinguals.

Danling Fu

Shepard-Carey and Tian’s book continues to push our understanding of translanguaging pedagogy forward by demonstrating its potential to transform our pedagogy in multilingual language education. The volume will serve as an important mentor text for researchers and practitioners who want to co-design and carry out collaborative translanguaging-focused projects in classrooms.

Peter Sayer