Minority languages and sustainable translanguaging: threat or opportunity?
University of the Basque Country · Ikerbasque
Abstract
Traditionally, languages have been separated from each other in the school curriculum and there has been little consideration for resources that learners possess as emergent multilinguals. This policy is aimed at the protection of minority languages and has sought to avoid cross-linguistic influence and codeswitching. However, these ideas have been challenged by current multilingual ideologies in a society that is becoming more globalised. Within the field of multilingual education studies, there is a strong trend towards replacing the idea of isolated linguistic systems with approaches that take multilingual speakers and their linguistic repertoire as a reference.This article focuses on translanguaging, a…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 146.72
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 46
Authors
2Topics & keywords
- Translanguaging
- Multilingualism
- Linguistics
- Context (archaeology)
- Sociology
- Language policy
- Neuroscience of multilingualism
- Minority language
- Quality Education