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International and Comparative Education
University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications
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Heteroglossic Practices In A Multilingual Science Classroom, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba
Heteroglossic Practices In A Multilingual Science Classroom, Lydiah Kananu Kiramba
Department of Teaching, Learning, and Teacher Education: Faculty Publications
This paper uses sociocultural theories of language learning to investigate how teachers and students navigate between monolingual institutional policies and the multilingual realities encountered in a rural Kenyan fourth-grade classroom. The paper addresses not only how learners’ communicative repertoires are deployed to make meaning in a foreign language instruction context but also the sociocultural significance of these communicative practices. Results illustrate how the science teacher used heteroglossic practices to mediate students’ access to literacy, hence, supporting the content learning and language development of students. Both the science teacher and the students preferred a more flexible use of language to make …