About the Book

Translanguaging for Emergent Bilinguals presents an accessible exploration of translanguaging and offers practical recommendations for meaningfully incorporating it into the teaching and learning experiences of emergent bilinguals (EBs) in K-12 classrooms.

Through engaging vignettes from a variety of monolingual and translanguaging settings, this book traces the challenges encountered by EB students and the schools that serve them and recommends promising solutions.  The authors argue that the future of educating multilingual learners lies in an inclusive translanguaging pedagogy.  By embracing home languages and cultures, this approach nurtures the development of multiple literacies, enabling individuals to thrive academically, socially, linguistically, and intellectually. 

In this second edition, each chapter has been updated to reflect new scholarship in translanguaging theory and practice, address and clarify common criticisms of translanguaging, and speak to current challenges to implementing translanguaging-informed practices. Among the updates are expanded content on dual-language bilingual programs, critical literacy, working with children who have experienced war and displacement, new and emerging technologies such as translation tools and artificial intelligence chatbots, and language-focused instruction in translanguaging classrooms.  The book ends with concrete takeaways for successful adopting translanguaging in different education settings.

WRITTEN BY

Danling Fu
Professor Emerita
University of Florida

Xenia Hadjioannou
Professor of Language and Literacy Education Pennsylvania State University, Berks Campus

Xiaodi Zhou
Associate Professor of Literacy Studies
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley 

BOOK FEATURES

• Offers a thorough examination of the realities of educating EBs in U.S. classrooms and proposes translanguaging as a promising approach.
• Provides classroom vignettes from diverse settings to illustrate the limitations of monolingual approaches and demonstrate the potential of translanguaging.
• Outlines concrete teaching strategies for translanguaging practice.
• Addresses both academic and social issues EBs encounter in schools.
• Includes examples reflecting the experience of EBs with diverse backgrounds: newly arrived, U.S.-born, long-term ELs, high achievers, and youth who have experienced war and displacement.
• Explicitly addresses questions frequently raised by classroom teachers and administrators.
  

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Part of the Language and Literacy Series

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