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Table Of Contents For Volume 9
Table Of Contents For Volume 9
Journal of Multilingual Education Research
Table of Contents for Journal of Multilingual Education Research, Volume 9, 2019. Special Issue: The Power of Voice: Contributions of Ofelia García to Language Education.
The Emergence Of Translanguaging Pedagogy: A Dialogue Between Theory And Practice, Jim Cummins
The Emergence Of Translanguaging Pedagogy: A Dialogue Between Theory And Practice, Jim Cummins
Journal of Multilingual Education Research
My goal in this paper is to contribute to the process of bringing practice and theory into active dialogue. Initially, I review some early instructional examples of crosslinguistic pedagogy involving emergent bilingual students. I then focus on more recent examples from the Canadian context that illustrate the emerging role of classroom teachers as knowledge-generators. Through their practice, these educators have challenged the assumption that schools serving multilingual students have no option but to be English-only zones. Finally, I explore some of the ways in which these instructional innovations illuminate theoretical understandings of translanguaging and crosslinguistic pedagogy more generally.