Navigating Hybridized Language Learning Spaces Through Translanguaging Pedagogy: Dual Language Preschool Teachers’ Languaging Practices in Support of Emergent Bilingual Children’s Performance of Academic Discourse

International Multilingual Research Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 7-25

  Gort, Mileidis ^a   Sembiante, Sabrina Francesca ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bilingualism; code switching; dual language; emergent bilinguals; preschool; translanguaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924582663     PISSN: 19313152     EISSN: 19313160     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/19313152.2014.981775     Document Type: Article

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