Translanguaging and the Bilingual Brain

2022-04-19
Translanguaging and the Bilingual Brain

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  • Author: Nina Dumrukcic
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • ISBN: 311075567X
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 265

Multilingual classrooms and online communication are becoming increasingly linguistically diverse due to globalization and new discourse patterns are emerging. Many of these patterns include the use of linguistic resources from multiple languages in the same utterance. Translanguaging, a recent theoretical framework, is gaining prominence among scholars interested in studying these multilingual discursive practices and the concept of a unitary language system for lexical processing. The aim of this book is to gain a better understanding of the bilingual brain and how words and sentences that use features from socially distinct languages are processed. Using examples provided by multilingual study participants, a categorization of the various forms of translanguaging is developed to build a translanguaging model. Psycholinguistic methods such as eye tracking are combined with conventional sociolinguistic survey methodology to provide rich qualitative and quantitative data that address the cognitive effects of translanguaging and the underlying structure of translingual word-formations. This monograph shows how language biography, exposure, and attitude towards multilingual discursive practices all affect cognitive processing. It also demonstrates how multilingual speakers are setting the patterns for novel word-formations to be produced, thus having a social, cultural, and cognitive impact on how we communicate.

Translanguaging

2013-11-29
Translanguaging

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  • Author: O. Garcia
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137385766
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 175

Winner of the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize 2014 This book addresses how the new linguistic concept of 'Translanguaging' has contributed to our understandings of language, bilingualism and education, with potential to transform not only semiotic systems and speaker subjectivities, but also social structures.

The Bilingual Brain

2013-11
The Bilingual Brain

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  • Author: Arturo E. Hernandez
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0199828113
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 206

Arturo Hernandez presents the results of 25 years of research into the factors that might help us to understand how two (or more) languages are stored in one brain. It is clear that the brain is not egalitarian—some languages are privileged and others are not, but why?

The Bilingual Brain

2020-01-30
The Bilingual Brain

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  • Author: Albert Costa
  • Publisher: Penguin UK
  • ISBN: 0241391520
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 176

'Fascinating. . . This engaging book explores just how multiple languages are acquired and sorted out by the brain. . . Costa's work derives from a great fund of knowledge, considerable curiosity and solidly scientific spirit' Philip Hensher Spectator The definitive study of bilingualism and the human brain from a leading neuropsychologist Over half of the world's population is bilingual and yet few of us understand how this extraordinary, complex ability really works. How do two languages co-exist in the same brain? What are the advantages and challenges of being bilingual? How do we learn - and forget - a language? In the first study of its kind, leading expert Albert Costa shares twenty years of experience to explore the science of language. Looking at studies and examples from Canada to France to South Korea, The Bilingual Brain investigates the significant impact of bilingualism on daily life from infancy to old age. It reveals, among other things, how babies differentiate between two languages just hours after birth, how accent affects the way in which we perceive others and even why bilinguals are better at conflict resolution. Drawing on cutting-edge neuro-linguistic research from his own laboratory in Barcelona as well from centres across the world, and his own bilingual family, Costa offers an absorbing examination of the intricacies and impact of an extraordinary skill. Highly engaging and hugely informative,The Bilingual Brain leaves us all with a sense of wonder at how language works. Translated by John W. Schwieter

A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism

2014-04-03
A Parents' and Teachers' Guide to Bilingualism

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  • Author: Colin Baker
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783091606
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 283

In this accessible guide to bilingualism in the family and the classroom, Colin Baker delivers a realistic picture of the joys and difficulties of raising bilingual children. This revised edition includes more information on bilingualism in the digital age, and incorporates the latest research in areas such as neonatal language experience, multilingualism and language mixing.

The Multilingual Turn in Languages Education

2014-09-16
The Multilingual Turn in Languages Education

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  • Author: Jean Conteh
  • Publisher: Multilingual Matters
  • ISBN: 1783092254
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 313

Starting from the key idea that learners and teachers bring diverse linguistic knowledge and resources to education, this book establishes and explores the concept of the ‘multilingual turn’ in languages education and the potential benefits for individuals and societies. It takes account of recent research, policy and practice in the fields of bilingual and multilingual education as well as foreign and second language education. The chapters integrate theory and practice, bringing together researchers and practitioners from five continents to illustrate the effects of the multilingual turn in society and evaluate the opportunities and challenges of implementing multilingual curricula and activities in a variety of classrooms. Based on the examples featured, the editors invite students, teachers, teacher educators and researchers to reflect on their own work and to evaluate the relevance and applicability of the multilingual turn in their own contexts.

Pedagogical Translanguaging

2022-01-27
Pedagogical Translanguaging

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  • Author: Jasone Cenoz
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1009033794
  • Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 116

Learning through the medium of a second or additional language is becoming very common in different parts of the world because of the increasing use of English as the language of instruction and the mobility of populations. This situation demands a specific approach that considers multilingualism as its core. Pedagogical translanguaging is a theoretical and instructional approach that aims at improving language and content competences in school contexts by using resources from the learner's whole linguistic repertoire. Pedagogical translanguaging is learner-centred and endorses the support and development of all the languages used by learners. It fosters the development of metalinguistic awareness by softening of boundaries between languages when learning languages and content. This Element looks at the way pedagogical translanguaging can be applied in language and content classes and how it can be valuable for the protection and promotion of minority languages. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

The Bilingual Brain

1978-10-28
The Bilingual Brain

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  • Author: Martin L. Albert
  • Publisher: Academic Press
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 326

Translanguaging

2013-11-29
Translanguaging

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  • Author: O. Garcia
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 1137385766
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 175

Winner of the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize 2014 This book addresses how the new linguistic concept of 'Translanguaging' has contributed to our understandings of language, bilingualism and education, with potential to transform not only semiotic systems and speaker subjectivities, but also social structures.

The Translanguaging Classroom

2017
The Translanguaging Classroom

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  • Author: Ofelia García
  • Publisher: Caslon Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781934000199
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 0

"Shows teachers how to strategically navigate the dynamic flow of bilingual students' language practices to (1) enable students to engage with and comprehend complex content and texts, (2) develop students' linguistic practices for academic contexts, (3) draw on students' bilingualism and bilingual ways of understanding, and (2) support students' socioemotional development and advance social justice"--provided by the publisher.