This workshop looks at practical ways teachers can use students’ own languages to enhance curricular learning. We will look at different types of multilingual classrooms and present practical activities and strategies for using students’ own languages in the classroom in these different contexts. This will include ideas for teachers who may share their students’ home language(s) and for those who do not. We will also look at strategies for introducing translanguaging practices to students, and for managing the use of home languages in the classroom.
- What is translanguaging and why is it useful for EAL learners?;
- Three types of multilingual classrooms and what strategies can be used for each type;
- Preparing for translanguaging;
- Using translation;
- Using multilingual resources.
