Overview
- Offers strategies for teaching specific grammatical and comprehension skills to students struggling to read in English
- Highlights specific challenges and difficulties teachers face in implementing a translanguaging approach
- Applies the theory of translanguaging to an Asian context
- Enriches the literature by comparing Chinese-English bilingual learners with Malay-English bilingual learners
- Applies new variables to the coding of bilingual transcripts
- Highlights directions in the emerging field of translanguaging where there is scope for growth
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About this book
This book is the first to apply the theory of translanguaging to multilingual classrooms in an Asian context, offering strategies for teaching specific grammatical and comprehension skills to students struggling to read in English. It also enriches the methodology of coding bilingual transcripts with ideas resulting from a detailed analysis of a large and rich data set. Lastly, the author discusses growth areas in the emerging field of translanguaging and challenges for teachers implementing a translanguaging approach in a superdiverse classroom.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Viniti Vaish holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. She is currently an Associate Professor at Singapore’s National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, where she teaches courses in Applied Linguistics. Her research interests include the documentation, measurement and enhancement of bilingualism and biliteracy in individuals and communities. Viniti speaks Hindi, Urdu and English, and reads Hindi, English and Sanskrit.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Translanguaging in Multilingual English Classrooms
Book Subtitle: An Asian Perspective and Contexts
Authors: Viniti Vaish
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1088-5
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1086-1Published: 12 February 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-1088-5Published: 11 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 130
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations
Topics: Language Education