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Hi, my name is Ophelia Garcia. I'm a professor of urban education here at the Graduate Center, and today I've been asked to discuss translanguaging. I've been asked to discuss what it is and who can do it. So, let's start with the first question: what is translanguaging?
So, translanguaging is the use of the children's full linguistic repertoire to make meaning without thinking of the fact that they have one language that is different from the other. So, bilingual children have one language system with linguistic features that, of course, are associated with one language or the other. But they also learn to suppress certain features depending on the communicative situation in which they're at.
French languaging is also a way of teaching, a pedagogy. A pedagogy that builds on that, on those fluent language practices that bilingual children have. A pedagogy that allows children, for example, to read in one language and then discuss in another, or to read in one language and write in another. So, a way of using all the linguistic resources in order to make meaning.