Analysis of Translanguaging in classrooms: An Effective Way to Teach a Second Language to Students

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10.2991/assehr.k.220504.374How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Translanguaging; English; Chinese; Bilingual; International Schools

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.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Haowen Hu
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/06/01
TI  - Analysis of Translanguaging in classrooms: An Effective Way to Teach a Second Language to Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 2072
EP  - 2076
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220504.374
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220504.374
ID  - Hu2022
ER  -