Envisioning TESOL through a Translanguaging Lens: Global Perspectives [Paperback]

To respond to the multilingual turn in language education, this volume constitutes a challenge to the traditional, monolingual, and native speakerism paradigm in the field of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) through a translanguaging lens. The chapters offer complex global perspectives  with contributions from five continents  to open critical conversations on how to conceptualize and implement translanguaging in teacher education and classrooms of various contexts. The researchers exhibit a shared commitment to transforming TESOL profession that values teachers and learners full linguistic repertoires. This volume should prove a valuable resource for students, teachers, and researchers interested in English teaching and learning, applied linguistics, second language acquisition, and social justice.

               

Foreword: Cutting Through the Monolingual Grip of TESOL Tradition  The Transformative Power of the Translanguaging Lens; Angel M. Y. Lin.- Envisioning TESOL through a Translanguaging Lens in the Era of Post-Multilingualism; Zhongfeng Tian, Laila Aghai, Peter Sayer, and Jamie L. Schissel.- Part I: Theorizing Translanguaging in TESOL.- Broadening the View: Taking up a Translanguaging Pedagogy with All Language-minoritized Students; Kate Seltzer, and Ofelia Garc?a.- The Need for Translanguaging in TESOL; Sabrina F. Sembiante, and Zhongfeng Tian.- Framing the Realities of TESOL Practice through a Translanguaging Lens; Graham Hall.- Part II: No, Professor, That is Not True: First Attempts at Introducing Translanguaging to Pre-service Teachers; Elena Andrei,  Amanda Kibler, and April Salerno.- Reenvisioning Second Language Teacher Education through Translanguaging Praxis; Matthew R. Deroo, ChristinlÚ