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That was beautiful! I learned so much. Very encouraging to expand on my approach for tutoring bilingual children.

The problem with academic jargon is that it tends to be abstract and more philosophical in its perspective which renders its meaning blurred and relatively loose in education when it’s actually applied to a classroom setting. Unfortunately, administration weaponize academia-speak without grasping it’s philosophical rather than practical and this hurts educators of English language as well as the students who are swung into this ideological pendulum.

Awesome lecture!!

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Excellent work by Prof. Garcia👌

sounds good in theory, have no idea this wold be implemented

First time I see an audience knock on the desk rather than clap. Not sure if it's just a german thing.

Amazingly Interesting 🙌🏽🙌🏽

Interesting. I don't think it is doing an injustice as a big percentage of classes have many many languages. There has to be a base language and standardised testing for comparison. We have known about the black boys studies for years that L2 assessment is often lower than in the L1 but it is impossible to have this kind of lesson in a big multilingual group except if you are teaching a small group of bilinguals with similar levels with a bilingual teacher. This also encourages local teachers for local students with the teacher as the model. For me and many many teachers we have 5+ languages at play. Just adopting one L1 as the other language immediately alienates the others. Many many students have an identity that is not that of the school and the country so just using the alleged L1 is the alien culture while English is actually an L3. As for linguistically minoritised and installed....colonialism....this seems very dated. Even when I studied at uni many many years ago it was about multilingualism and we had classes of many refugees, Jamaicans, Africans, Europeans etc. The social movement of embracing minorities and languages is great but we have to ensure equality and non favouritism. The very simple way which has been around for a long time is differentiation. Set up groups which have multilingual activities based on their needs or if you are basing your courses on developing the people and skills etc then do the groupings by those and put the languages in secondary place. We also cannot forget the end goal which is a job and adulthood and living in society. In some countries the young people must be bilingual so the washback effect is huge and promotes bilingual teaching. In others it needs trilingual. In countries where young people only need the official L1 it removes motivation for other languages. Also in poor countries where L1 levels are actually very low there can be far less pressure to introduce another language OR perhaps the suction is just bilingual education from 3+ then students can choose courses by language at highschool and uni like Science in English or Swedish or a mix of both. None of this new but as people move and there are more mixes the idea of a successful bilingual class becomes more distant from reality. The last class I taught had speakers of 8 languages besides English. How can I use a translanguage approach?

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I have this ability

Thanks so much madame. I get an idea. 😊😊😊😊

Krasser Scheiß find ich voll knorke würd ich auch so machen jooop

We cherish these lectures just as much as we do with the physical ones in our Learning institutions. I love them.

She so cute wanna hug her

Es muy interesante el topico de translanguaging. Es como que you have given us the freeedom to use our bilingual repertoire.

🤩 yup.

This lady is full of shit.

Deeply inspired. I agree with you Dr Garcia.

Is there a conference transcript available somewhere?

Inspirational

European classrooms at the university level used always to be bi- or multi-lingual to some extent in the middle ages, when teaching and assessment were in Latin but the students had only learned that at school. In Britain the change happened gradually from the 17th to 19th centuries: sometimes the Professor spoke in Latin in the morning, and his assistant lectured (for a fee) in English on the same topic in the afternoon. Or the professor mixed both languages, because the students needed to be able to use the language of scholarship as well as the vernacular. Special classes for women, or adults, would be in English. Something like that happens in India. In South India English is more-or-less the lingua franca, and university lectures are officially in English only. But those less expensively educated are at a disadvantage. Those who can afford it attend Tutorial Colleges as well in the evening: the teaching is mainly in English, but more liberal use is made of the vernacular for those who have not understood. Everywhere, those who speak minority languages not catered for by their school are at a disadvantage, as are those whose families speak local dialects or even just use the local demotic speech rather than the "high" language of the middle and upper classes, which is closer to what is used in books and exams. Those children need to work harder to "switch code."

I find your explanation really interesting and straight to what second language teachers should be aware of. It's a pleasure to listen to your presentation. Thank you! I'm from Misiones, Argentina

Awesome! Still remember you from ALFAL in Montevideo, Uruguay

Excellent Mrs. Ofelia!! I really love your ideas and perspective! Challenging, motivating, touching, and deeply fruitful for my final research work! I will consider your theorethical epistemology, the "junto" approach and personal repertoire every student and speaker build!

3:00 Entanglement #2020

Can you make experiments on me to see how inteligent I am? I speak easily more than 2 language every day.. I came from Romania and we learned English and French at school and I learnt Greek, Italian and German by myself.. So I can say I can speak many languages... I tried to find a good job in Germany because I thought knowing so many languages will help me... Leider ist nicht so.. Die sagen das ich habe keine Ausbildung gemacht. Ich arbeite zur Zeit bei McDonald's.. Please help me to understand why nobody need me? I can offer so much help for the people who need help with integration in Germany... I can't pay my bills with money from McDonald's... Ich habe meine Eltern immer geholfen mit Geld und ich bin deprimiert weil ich dachte ich könnte besser schaffen.. Ich möchte gerne mit Ihnen treffen und eine Caffè trinken... Und vielleicht Sie könnten mir erklären warum zu dumm für etwas andere Arbeit bin..

Who invented translanguaging as pedagogy?

I am inspired by her.

We need to do more research in multilingual contexts such as India to understand translingual practices ..teachers use multiple langauges stealthily because of popular belief of superiority of target lang dominated classroom.

It almost sounded like she said at 15:28 "y dankon". #Esperanto

Great perspective, but I do not understand how this concept can apply to a multilingual classroom where different "named" languages are at stake. Any help on this?

Thank you!

is there a word for translanguaging in Spanish?