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“What Do You Want to Say?” How Adolescents Use Translanguaging to Expand Learning Opportunities
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This study investigated how students learning English and students learning Spanish activated multilingual repertoires as they participated in one high school program that aimed to promote reciprocal learning and teaching of multilingual literacy practices. Grounded in sociocultural theory, we examined how students drew upon Spanish, English, and translanguaging as cultural and cognitive tools to mediate learning in a Third Space. Data collection included participant observations in 40 sessions, student writing, interviews, and audio/video recordings of peer interactions as they engaged in composing and revising of text together. Using interactional ethnography and microgenetic analysis, we analyzed mediation of learning opportunities across and between languages and found evidence of students co-constructing knowledge and expanding multilingual repertoires. Findings contribute to second language acquisition research by revealing fluid and reciprocal affordances for language learning during interactions among linguistically diverse peers as they draw upon translanguaging practices. By shedding light on an alternative educational context that mobilizes young people’s diverse funds of knowledge, the findings have implications for educational practices that support equity for culturally and linguistically diverse students.
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“researchers highlight collaborative learning through group activities as a factor that facilitates pedagogical translanguaging (Martin-Beltrán 2014).”
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“Martin-Beltrán (2014, 12) suggests that a useful translanguaging technique is to encourage the learners to 'play language detectives', to look for and discuss similarities and differences (cognates and false cognates) across languages.”
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- Authors
- Martin-Beltrán, M.
- Venue
- International Multilingual Research Journal
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2014-07-03
- Volume
- 8
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 208-230
- ISSN
- 1931-3152 (ISSN-L)
- 1931-3160
- OpenAlex
- W2114438035
- Cited by
- 186
- References
- 84
- Citations by year
- 2026: 10 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 54 · 2019: 24 · 2018: 8 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 9 · 2015: 5 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 44.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- International Multilingual Research Journal (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Spencer Foundation
- National Academy of Education
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Multilingual Education and Policy
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
- Social Sciences › Linguistics and Language › Second Language Learning and Teaching
- Keywords
- translanguaging, multilingual repertoires, adolescents, mutual learning, multilingual literacy, Spanish-English bilingual education, peer interaction, funds of knowledge, culturally and linguistically diverse students, educational equity, sociocultural theory, third space, second language acquisition
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