Abstract
This study investigates the use of Translanguaging as a Pedagogical Strategy by an EFL teacher in terms of interaction between the teacher and the students in teaching and learning process. It focuses to explore in what situation, do the practices of translanguaging which go on in EFL classroom. This study applied qualitative method. Two meetings of classroom observations were recorded by using audio recorder. Also, a teacher and ten students were interviewed after the classroom observation. The recordings and interviews were transcribed and analyzed based on in what situation, do the the practices of translanguaging go on in EFL classroom. In the research findings there were three kinds of languages namely English as the Foreign language, Indonesia as the national language, and Konjo as the local language that used by the teacher and students in practice of translanguaging during teaching and learning process in EFL Classroom. Therefore, the researcher found that the teacher used translanguaging in seven situations during teaching process. And students used translanguaging in six situations during the teaching and learning process.
Highlights
Strategies take an important place during the teaching and learning process
Translanguaging, has been recently defined from other perspectives; Canagarajah (2011: 8) affirms that “the research studies we do have on school contexts show translanguaging to be a naturally occurring phenomenon. Ina majority of these studies, teachers through conscious pedagogical strategies donot elicit acts of translanguaging. They are produced unbidden”.Comparatively, Garcia (2012:2) defines translanguaging as “the discourse practicesof the bilinguals, as well as pedagogical strategies that use the entire linguisticrepertoire of bilingual students flexibly in order to teach both rigorous content andlanguage for academic use”
From the data gained through the recording of classroom observation and interview with one teacher and 10 students, it could be concluded that the practices of translanguaging going on in EFL Classroom
Summary
Strategies take an important place during the teaching and learning process. P a g e | 155 pedagogic strategy that teachers can use in the billingual/multilingual classroom to increase effectiveness in teaching language especially, English as foreign language. It is related to Garcia (2012) who affirms that translanguaging is a process that teachers can use in order to make rigorous content more comprehensible forstudents deepening their thoughts and understanding. Taking this into account, it is important for teachers to be aware of how to implement this strategy avoidingmisconceptions about its implementation in their practices
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