Teaching English in the Two-Year College May 2022

Instructional Note: Using the Mother Tongue as a Resource for English Acquisition

Andrea Parmegiani

Abstract

In these instructional notes, I share practical strategies for using ESL students’ first language as a resource for English language and literacy acquisition. These strategies emerged from a bilingual writing program that linked ESL and Spanish writing instruction at Bronx Community College (CUNY). After discussing how I was able to circumvent the monolingual orientations of my institution and set up this program as a learning community cluster, I illustrate ways in which translanguaging can help ESL students take ownership of English for academic purposes.

Journal
Teaching English in the Two-Year College
Published
2022-05-01
DOI
10.58680/tetyc202231899
Open Access
Closed
Topics
writing pedagogy two-year college translingualism multilingual writers

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Also cites 7 works outside this index ↓
  1. Canagarajah (2011)
    Codemeshing in Academic Writing: Identifying Teachable Strategies of Translanguaging
    Modern Language Journal  ↗
  2. García (2014)
    Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism, and Education
     ↗
  3. Horner (2002)
    English Only and U.S. College Composition
    College Composition and Communication  ↗
  4. Lindholm-Leary (2014)
    Student Outcomes in One-Way, Two-Way, and Indigenous Language Immersion Education
    Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education  ↗
  5. Parmegiani (2014)
    Bridging Literacy Practices through Storytelling, the Mother Tongue, and an Ethnographic …
    Journal of Basic Writing  ↗
  6. Parmegiani (2017)
    Promoting Academic Achievement through the Mother Tongue and a Critically Compassionate I…
    Latino Studies  ↗
  7. Parmegiani (2019)
    Using ESL Students’ First Language to Promote College Success: Sneaking the Mother Tongue…
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