Translanguaging in the Education of Young Learners

Essay from the year 2020 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: A, language: English, abstract: The paper presents an overview of the origins of translanguaging as a concept and also provides definitions that arose so far from its study. It also presents the benefits of translanguaging in education and provides a description of practices and strategies used by both teachers and learners towards a multilingual development in learning environments offering some insight on how translanguaging is used and which goals it aids fulfill. Translanguaging is an approach that came up due to the bilingual tendencies in education following the trends of multinational and multicultural societies of today.