Analysis of Translanguaging in classrooms: An Effective Way to Teach a Second Language to Students
Year: 2022
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: English has become increasingly important in this globalized world for people working in all kinds of career.For students, specifically, English proficiency is become extremely important.Not only the society placed high value on being English proficiency, getting admission in various next level institutes also require students to have high English proficiency.With the massive demand for advanced English learning experience, the amount of international schools that provide English learning classes outside of schools are significantly increasing in recent decades.Thus, this paper aimed to examine how the teachers who work at international schools in China used two languages, Chinese and English, interchangeably in their classroom.I hypothesized that how each language is used in class is based on the students' proficiency of English and their levels of understanding of the language at the moment.Data analysis found that using Chinese to help students to learn English is vital to create a good language learning environment.The proportion of each language being used is dependent on students' English proficiency.
Author: Haowen Hu
Institution: Northeastern University
Language: English
Subfield: Linguistics and Language
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4285213147