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Multilingual Education in an Italian Public Preschool: Teachers and Families among Mobility Processes and Inclusive Practices
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Carbonara, Valentina – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2022
This paper focuses on the integration of translanguaging practices in a public preschool situated in a small village in North-West of Italy. Mobility processes and local Italian families' school choices have led to the raise of the number of students with an immigrant background enrolled at the studied preschool up to 85%. After a brief overview…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Translation, Code Switching (Language), Preschool Education
Translation Activities in Bilingual Early Childhood Education: Children's Perspectives and Teachers' Scaffolding
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Kultti, Anne; Pramling, Niklas – Multilingua: Journal of Cross-Cultural and Interlanguage Communication, 2017
In the present study we investigate empirically how six to seven-year-old children with their teachers take on the challenge of translating the lyrics of a children's song from Finnish to English, analyzing how translation is collaboratively constituted by the participants. The study is informed by translanguaging theory and a sociocultural…
Descriptors: Translation, Bilingualism, Metalinguistics, Music