Abstract:In the face of immense pressure from Spanish, the national language, a group of educators in Michoacán are committed to prioritising P'urhepecha in two local primary schools where P'urhepecha is the dominant community language. The history of educational initiatives among the P'urhepecha people illustrates the inconsistent and primarily assimilationist educational environment faced by indigenous populations in Mexico, providing context for the schools' efforts, which encourage literacy skills in both languages… Show more
Translanguaging was a relatively little-known concept 20 years ago, but has now become a ‘household name’ in
academic contexts. The body of research on translanguaging is ever-growing and the concept covers a vast field from bilinguals’
everyday language use to a theory of language and education. By means of a scoping literature review this study focuses on
translanguaging as a pedagogy within bilingual education and synthesises existing empirical research on the topic that was carried
out between 1990 and 2020.
Translanguaging was a relatively little-known concept 20 years ago, but has now become a ‘household name’ in
academic contexts. The body of research on translanguaging is ever-growing and the concept covers a vast field from bilinguals’
everyday language use to a theory of language and education. By means of a scoping literature review this study focuses on
translanguaging as a pedagogy within bilingual education and synthesises existing empirical research on the topic that was carried
out between 1990 and 2020.
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