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Article published In: Translanguaging – researchers and practitioners in dialogue
Edited by Lina Adinolfi, Holly Link and Oliver St John
[Translation and Translanguaging in Multilingual Contexts 4:3] 2018
► pp. 405–421

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¡Luego, luego!

The urgency of developing and exploring translanguaging spaces for immigrant students and families

 | Revolución Arte
Published online: 13 November 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/ttmc.00020.lin
Abstract
This article is a reflection on my experience as a researcher and bilingual educator based in the United States who works, teaches and conducts research with the Latinx community in an area with large numbers of Mexican immigrant families. In my reflection, I draw from my work at a non-profit center dedicated to the empowerment of the Latinx community to consider how bilingual community education can serve as an ideological and implementational translanguaging space. I argue that acknowledging ideological and implementational aspects of translanguaging practice and pedagogy can be an early step on the path of social transformation in, for, and with language-minoritized communities. I end by calling for increased collaboration among educators, researchers, and community members in order to develop and explore translanguaging spaces with and for immigrant families, not just in the United States, but globally.
Article outline
  • 1.¡Luego, luego!
  • 2.Translanguaging as theory and practice
  • 3.Revolución Arte and Marshall, Pennsylvania
  • 4.Revolución Arte: A bilingual community education translanguaging space
  • 5.From translanguaging corriente and stance to translanguaging pedagogy
  • 6.Grandes decisions (big/great decisions): Translanguaging in a RevArte theater class
  • 7.RevArte as an ideological and implementational space for developing and exploring translanguaging with and for immigrant students and families
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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