10 Transforming Our Classrooms to Embrace Students’ Multilingualism Through Translanguaging Pedagogy

Sánchez, Maite T.; Espinet, Ivana

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“…Cultural storytelling reflects a translanguaging approach that honors and centers familial cultural and linguistic capital (Sanchez & Espinet, 2021). Asking students and families to share stories about life experiences encourages natural expressions of meaningful messages and identities (Kim & Song, 2019).…”

Section: Enhancements To Family Literacy Programmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These translanguaging approaches all position students and families as co-creators of literacy opportunities and offer positive examples of growing up multilingual (Sanchez & Espinet, 2021). Cultural storytelling practices when paired with multimodal visual, kinesthetic, and digital representations, such as role-playing, songwriting, watching videos, or making and playing multimedia games, promote both cognitive and affective engagement in English literacy development (Lenters, 2018).…”

Section: Incorporate Cultural Storytellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Honoring Diverse Cultures Through Family Literacy Approaches That Build Family, School, and Community Partnerships

Miller¹,

Khatib²

2023

The Reading Teacher

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Families play a critical role in promoting students’ literacy development. Family literacy practices refer to oral, written, and reading strategies that impart cultural traditions and knowledge of the world and that occur in the dominant or native language of a family. It is especially important for educators to understand and build upon such practices when working with multilingual, immigrant, refugee, or asylee students who are the first in their family to attend school in a new host country. Unfortunately, teachers frequently report they are at a loss as to how to engage with the adult guardians of these students on joint efforts to encourage reading in a second language. In this review, effective family literacy programs published in the last several decades reported in the U.S. or internationally are analyzed for how they promote early English literacy skills while honoring a family's native language and culture and simultaneously encouraging strong partnerships between homes, schools, and communities. Culturally sustaining pedagogical approaches reflected within these programs provide ideas for how to intentionally encourage future enhancements of family literacy programming and research.

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Section: Enhancements To Family Literacy Programmingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Incorporate Cultural Storytellingmentioning

confidence: 99%