Translanguaging pedagogies support multilingual students by activating prior knowledge, integrating home languages and cultures, and utilizing multimodal learning. However, as equity-oriented pedagogies, they redress long-standing practices of denying students access to their home languages or demanding a strict separation of their interwoven…

This article introduces basic strategies for teachers initiating translanguaging pedagogy for emergent bilingual students in mathematics classrooms to support linguistic identities, create inclusive environments, and enhance learning. The authors collaborated with Algebra 1 teachers who exclusively taught emergent bilingual students, implementing…

This teaching tip shares a research-based instructional model that uses translation to improve the English reading comprehension of English Learners. Within this instruction, English learners work collaboratively in small groups and use translation to facilitate understandings of their required English language arts curriculum. Students are taught…

Learners are increasingly accessing free online and open resources, tools, and spaces where they can develop their language skills beyond the classroom, alone, or in collaboration with others, and often whilst engaging in purposeful and enjoyable activities. Teachers need to find ways to explore and connect these activities productively with the…

One French university's experience with the developing need for specialized second-language vocabulary instruction in two programs, specialized translation and business administration, revealed not only second-language instructional needs but also the desirability of offering instruction in specialized native language terminology. (MSE)

The booklet contains directions for designing six word games to provide motivation, reinforcement, and review for students of all ages, from children to adults, as they learn the Ojibwe language. Step-by-step instructions are provided for making and playing Quiz Board, Tic-Tac-Toe, Concentration, Lottery, Lingo (Bingo), and Incocomp. Suggestions…