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"Para Que Los Demás Se Diviertan Un Poco": Negotiating Social Interactions in a Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Classroom.
- Source :
- Journal of Language, Identity & Education; Mar/Apr2024, Vol. 23 Issue 2, p228-242, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This paper explores how a transnational emergent multilingual (TEM) student established himself in relation to his teacher and peers in a culturally and linguistically diverse, sheltered English Instruction classroom. Specifically, it documents how the student initiated translingual and cross-cultural social interactions positioning himself as a linguistically-agile member of the classroom community. Using positioning and translanguaging theory, the analysis illustrates how the student's translingual, cross-cultural interactions allowed him to build relationships and reposition himself in the face of school-imposed labels that otherwise positioned him as linguistically-lacking. Findings illustrate how the student strategically created opportunities to use his entire linguistic repertoire and suggest the need to consider alternatives to deficit-oriented school-imposed labels placed upon TEMs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 15348458
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Language, Identity & Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 175750119
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/15348458.2021.1986398