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Teaching Hispanic Restaurant Workers: Translanguaging as Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy.

In this article, we make a case for incorporating translanguaging pedagogy into the framework of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP). Drawing on data from a one‐year ethnographic study of an adult ESL program, we show how teachers believed in and attempted to create spaces for translanguaging and C...

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Published in:Anthropology & Education Quarterly Vol. 51; no. 3; pp. 304 - 322
Main Authors: Emerick, Mark R., Hoffman, Brooke Y., Kanno, Yasuko
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Sep2020
Subjects:
Education
Teaching
Language & languages
Ethnographic analysis
Research
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:In this article, we make a case for incorporating translanguaging pedagogy into the framework of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (CSP). Drawing on data from a one‐year ethnographic study of an adult ESL program, we show how teachers believed in and attempted to create spaces for translanguaging and CSP but in practice fell short. We conclude that translanguaging is most powerful when understood as a component of CSP but call for more research in this area.