Challenging Minority Language Isolation: Translanguaging in a Trilingual School in the Basque Country

Learning two or more languages at school is quite common all over Europe,but languages are often isolated from each other. This pedagogical practice isin contrast to the way multilingual speakers use their whole linguistic reper-toire when communicating in social contexts. These multilingual solitud...

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Authors: Leonet Sieso, Oihana, Cenoz Iragui, Miren Jasone, Gorter, Durk
Format: article
Publication Date:2017
Country:España
Institution:Universidad del País Vasco
Repository:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/70665
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Keyword:Basque
English
metalinguistic awareness
multilingual education
Spanish
translanguaging
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spelling Challenging Minority Language Isolation: Translanguaging in a Trilingual School in the Basque CountryLeonet Sieso, OihanaCenoz Iragui, Miren JasoneGorter, DurkBasqueEnglishmetalinguistic awarenessmultilingual educationSpanishtranslanguagingLearning two or more languages at school is quite common all over Europe,but languages are often isolated from each other. This pedagogical practice isin contrast to the way multilingual speakers use their whole linguistic reper-toire when communicating in social contexts. These multilingual solitudes arechallenged when translanguaging pedagogies are used and multilingual stu-dents are allowed to use the resources in their linguistic repertoire. The specificfocus of this article is to examine translanguaging as a pedagogical tool asrelated to a context wherein Basque is the main language of instruction, but aminority language in society. The article reports the characteristics of a peda-gogical intervention based on translanguaging, which aims at developinglanguage awareness, metalinguistic awareness, and communicative and aca-demic competences in Basque, Spanish, and English. Our findings show thatpedagogical translanguaging can be compatible with the maintenance anddevelopment of a minority language.INECO/FEDER [EDU2015-63967-R] y Gobierno Vasco [ DREAM IT-714-13; UFI 11/54]Taylor & Francis202420242017info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/70665reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoIngléshttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15348458.2017.1328281info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/© Oihana Leonet, Jasone Cenoz and Durk Gorter This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any wayoai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/706652026-06-18T09:23:17Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Challenging Minority Language Isolation: Translanguaging in a Trilingual School in the Basque Country
title Challenging Minority Language Isolation: Translanguaging in a Trilingual School in the Basque Country
spellingShingle Challenging Minority Language Isolation: Translanguaging in a Trilingual School in the Basque Country
Leonet Sieso, Oihana
Basque
English
metalinguistic awareness
multilingual education
Spanish
translanguaging
title_short Challenging Minority Language Isolation: Translanguaging in a Trilingual School in the Basque Country
title_full Challenging Minority Language Isolation: Translanguaging in a Trilingual School in the Basque Country
title_fullStr Challenging Minority Language Isolation: Translanguaging in a Trilingual School in the Basque Country
title_full_unstemmed Challenging Minority Language Isolation: Translanguaging in a Trilingual School in the Basque Country
title_sort Challenging Minority Language Isolation: Translanguaging in a Trilingual School in the Basque Country
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Leonet Sieso, Oihana
Cenoz Iragui, Miren Jasone
Gorter, Durk
author Leonet Sieso, Oihana
author_facet Leonet Sieso, Oihana
Cenoz Iragui, Miren Jasone
Gorter, Durk
author_role author
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Gorter, Durk
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Basque
English
metalinguistic awareness
multilingual education
Spanish
translanguaging
topic Basque
English
metalinguistic awareness
multilingual education
Spanish
translanguaging
description Learning two or more languages at school is quite common all over Europe,but languages are often isolated from each other. This pedagogical practice isin contrast to the way multilingual speakers use their whole linguistic reper-toire when communicating in social contexts. These multilingual solitudes arechallenged when translanguaging pedagogies are used and multilingual stu-dents are allowed to use the resources in their linguistic repertoire. The specificfocus of this article is to examine translanguaging as a pedagogical tool asrelated to a context wherein Basque is the main language of instruction, but aminority language in society. The article reports the characteristics of a peda-gogical intervention based on translanguaging, which aims at developinglanguage awareness, metalinguistic awareness, and communicative and aca-demic competences in Basque, Spanish, and English. Our findings show thatpedagogical translanguaging can be compatible with the maintenance anddevelopment of a minority language.
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