Emma Trentman

Tag: pedagogy

  • Ideologies of Language and the Beginning Language Class: Part 2

    Ideologies of Language and the Beginning Language Class: Part 2

    Last week, I discussed several popular methods of organizing beginning language classes under the overarching critique of focusing on either decontextualized sets of language or prioritizing transactions over social relationships. This week, I’m focusing on what I am interested in implementing in my classroom, drawing from both functional theories of language and translanguaging pedagogy. Language…

  • Ideologies of Language and the Beginning Language Class: Part 1

    Ideologies of Language and the Beginning Language Class: Part 1

    Last week, I talked about how the language of social relationships is often overlooked in beginning language classes, and I think this is one reason students use English. As language teachers, I think we tend to view beginning language classes as the start of a language learning journey, or a step to more advanced classes…

  • Translanguaging Pedagogy: Recognizing social practices in the classroom

    Translanguaging Pedagogy: Recognizing social practices in the classroom

    In my last post, I discussed some practices where I think translanguaging pedagogy simply gives us a new mindset on practices that already occur in the language classroom (or at least in my classroom). In this post, I want to focus on an area of the language classroom where I think we could be more…

  • Translanguaging Pedagogy in the Language Classroom: A New Mindset?

    Translanguaging Pedagogy in the Language Classroom: A New Mindset?

    As is most likely clear from previous posts on nation-state ideologies of language and the multilingual turn, I find the latter a more appealing ideology for my language classroom, especially when combined with functional approaches to linguistics, that emphasize what learners do with language in actual contexts. Yet, as usual, the challenge for combining theory…

  • Does study abroad lead to intercultural learning?

    For U.S. students, study abroad has never been more popular—according to the Open Doors data from the U.S. State Department, the number of students studying abroad has more than doubled since the turn of the 21st century, and about 10% of U.S. students will study abroad during their undergraduate career.  As a study abroad researcher,…