Spaces for translanguaging in mother tongue tuition
The aim of this article is to generate knowledge about an MTT classroom in a Swedish elementary school and how MTT is positioned as a safe space for translanguaging. By studying a school context as a potential translanguaging space, our focus is mainly on two dimensions of space: the physical, inclu...
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| description | The aim of this article is to generate knowledge about an MTT classroom in a Swedish elementary school and how MTT is positioned as a safe space for translanguaging. By studying a school context as a potential translanguaging space, our focus is mainly on two dimensions of space: the physical, including the material space of MTT, and the social, including safe spaces in MTT. The material is mainly from one selected Kurdish MTT classroom, in the form of field notes from lesson observations, photographs in the classroom interior, video recordings co-created with the MTT teacher. This classroom may be perceived as a space where Kurdish dominates, while being included in a Swedish-dominant school setting. This Kurdish space has borders that are physical and related to the scheduled lesson in the specific classroom. Both students and the teacher pass the door and through this shift language practices. Linguistic landscaping as a method, in combination with the collective reflection between the researcher and teacher, added another dimension to the study of MTT. Schoolscaping made language hierarchies and the language policy of the school concrete and visible. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-481ba8692dbd4040a27ad3ad27fd0e9e2022-12-21T16:35:04ZengTaylor & Francis GroupEducation Inquiry2000-45082022-01-01131375510.1080/20004508.2020.18380681838068Spaces for translanguaging in mother tongue tuitionBoglárka Straszer0Jenny Rosén1Åsa Wedin2Dalarna UniversityStockholm and Dalarna University, Humanities and LanguageDalarna UniversityThe aim of this article is to generate knowledge about an MTT classroom in a Swedish elementary school and how MTT is positioned as a safe space for translanguaging. By studying a school context as a potential translanguaging space, our focus is mainly on two dimensions of space: the physical, including the material space of MTT, and the social, including safe spaces in MTT. The material is mainly from one selected Kurdish MTT classroom, in the form of field notes from lesson observations, photographs in the classroom interior, video recordings co-created with the MTT teacher. This classroom may be perceived as a space where Kurdish dominates, while being included in a Swedish-dominant school setting. This Kurdish space has borders that are physical and related to the scheduled lesson in the specific classroom. Both students and the teacher pass the door and through this shift language practices. Linguistic landscaping as a method, in combination with the collective reflection between the researcher and teacher, added another dimension to the study of MTT. Schoolscaping made language hierarchies and the language policy of the school concrete and visible.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2020.1838068mother tongue tuitiontranslanguagingsafe spacelinguistic landscaping |
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| title | Spaces for translanguaging in mother tongue tuition |
| title_full | Spaces for translanguaging in mother tongue tuition |
| title_fullStr | Spaces for translanguaging in mother tongue tuition |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spaces for translanguaging in mother tongue tuition |
| title_short | Spaces for translanguaging in mother tongue tuition |
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| topic | mother tongue tuition translanguaging safe space linguistic landscaping |
| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/20004508.2020.1838068 |
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