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A teacher of class VI found in her classroom there are about seven languages. She uses the languages of learners to teach-learn languages and content subject. What is the strategy known as?

A teacher of class VI found in her classroom there are about seven languages. She uses the languages of learners to teach-learn languages and content subject. What is the strategy known as? Correct Answer Translanguaging

Translanguaging is something most people do all the time with their friends, family and other members of the community without even thinking about it. In the classroom, translanguaging may involve translating between languages and comparing and being playful with different languages.

Key Points 

  • ‘Translanguaging’ is a relatively new term for an age-old practice – that of switching between the languages one knows in order to maximize communicative potential.
  • Translanguaging is flexible multilingualism. It involves combining elements from different languages and using the languages of learners to teach-learn content and languages.
  • As a resource for both teachers and students, translanguaging has many educational benefits because it validates multilingualism, viewing it as a valuable asset rather than a problem or a temporary transitional interactional tool in early schooling.
  • It represents more efficient and effective teaching and learning technique that is possible in one language only and offers opportunities for individuals to develop rich and varied communicative repertoires for use within and outside school.

Hence, it is clear that the above-mentioned strategy is known as translanguaging.

Additional Information

  • Multilingualism is the ability to use more than two languages. Multilingualism is constitutive of the identity of a child and a typical feature of the Indian linguistic landscape must be used as a resource, classroom strategy, and a goal by a creative language teacher.

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