Translanguaging: Using Students’ Own Languages to Enhance Learning (Webinar)

This webinar presents practical ideas for using students’ own languages to enhance learning in different types of multilingual classrooms.

This webinar explores what is meant by “translanguaging” in an international education context and looks at practical ways in which teachers can use students’ own languages to enhance curricular learning. We will look at different types of multilingual classrooms and present practical strategies and activities for using students’ own languages in the classroom in these different contexts. This will include ideas for teachers who may share their students’ home language(s) and for those who do not. We will also look at strategies for introducing translanguaging practices to students, and for managing the use of home languages in the classroom.

Areas of focus will include:

  • What is translanguaging and why is it useful for EAL learners?;
  • Three types of multilingual classrooms and what translanguaging strategies can be used for each type (Kerr, 2014);
  • Preparing for translanguaging;
  • Using translation;
  • Using multilingual resources;
  • Opportunities for questions.

Kerr, P., 2014. Translation and own-language activities. Cambridge University Press.

Who should register for the webinar

Primary and secondary international school staff:  

  • EAL coordinators; 
  • Classroom and subject teachers;
  • EAL teachers;
  • Teaching assistants;
  • Anyone with responsibility for EAL and/or CPD.  

Why you should register for the webinar

  • To learn activities and techniques for using students’ own languages in class.
  • To be able to apply translanguaging strategies in a more principled and effective way.
  • To understand better the different types of multilingual classroom and how this may inform pedagogical choices.
  • Access to session recording.
  • First to hear about future webinars and how to sign up.

If you have any questions that specifically relate to the webinar topic which you would like answered during the live session, please send them to:  webinar@bell-foundation.org.uk.

If the webinar is full, please complete the wait list form and you will be contacted if a place becomes available. Everyone on the wait list will be sent a copy of the webinar recording.

Your speaker, Tom

Tom Beakes at The Bell Foundation

Tom Beakes joined The Bell Foundation in 2020. Tom has worked in language education since 2003 and has taught in China, Japan, Ecuador, and north Africa. His main areas of interest are international education and teacher development. He holds an MA in anthropological linguistics and is CELTA and DELTA qualified. He has worked as a teacher trainer in the UK and abroad and is a regular speaker and presenter at EAL events.

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Event details

Price

Free

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