Translanguaging in Multicultural Classrooms: Discoveries, Dilemmas, and Directions

• Main Author: Canilao, Maria Luz Elena Nabong
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2023
• Subjects: English only policy; Innovations; Linguistic inequities; Multicultural classrooms; Translanguaging; Arts and Humanities; Education; English Language and Literature; Language and Literacy Education; Literature in English, Anglophone outside British Isles and North America
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/english-faculty-pubs/224; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8589-0_1
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This chapter describes how the English Only Policy has been deeply entrenched in the educational system in the Philippines because of the country’s colonial past, and it discusses how educators have been conditioned to believe that languages should be segregated in academic settings. It addresses th...