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Title: From Problem to Right: Imaginative Speculation on Translanguaging in the World Language Classroom
Language: English
Authors: Michele Back
Source: Modern Language Journal. 2025 109(3):632-650.
Availability: Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 19
Publication Date: 2025
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
Postsecondary Education
Descriptors: Language Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Experienced Teachers, Language Attitudes, Code Switching (Language), Online Courses, Asynchronous Communication, Linguistics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Writing Assignments, Multilingualism, Bilingual Students, Teacher Educators
DOI: 10.1111/modl.13016
ISSN: 0026-7902
1540-4781
Abstract: In this study, I analyze how 15 world language (WL) preservice and in-service teachers in the United States negotiated the concept of translanguaging in an online, asynchronous educational linguistics class. Integrating language orientations, an ecological model of language teacher agency, a critical reflection framework, and a critical translingual stance, I describe how participants imagined the role of translanguaging in the WL classroom on their own and with each other in written assignments. Findings indicate that participants' initial stances on translanguaging were dependent upon several contextual factors, including linguistic background and contact with multilingual students in their own classrooms. Meso, macro, and micro constraints of standards, ideologies, and school environments were explored, and participants' language orientations included (trans)language(ing)-as-problem, -resource, and -right. Continued exposure to translanguaging during the course led to shifts even among the more resistant participants from viewing translanguaging as a problem in the WL class to a potentially powerful resource and right. I discuss how language teacher educators can encourage this imaginative speculation, with the important caveat that truly critical, equitable, decolonially oriented translanguaging stances require extended exposure to and additional resources on the topic.
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