Why we should promote translanguaging
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Due to globalization, we have experience migration rates of families moving to different countries and bringing multiculturalism to our classroom and as instructors and members of the communities, we need to provide the tools to make them feel safe and welcoming. Having a multicultural classroom and allowing students to translanguaging will make an individual impact in everyone because students will be able to express their ideas in their home language to the instructors and classmates. Students will feel confident that eventually will lead to a better education for them. According to Gongora, Bilingual or multilingual students can increase their learning of the L2 when they are allowed to use both languages at the same time on a conversation. (Padilla Góngora, et all). Another reason of why we should promote translanguaging is because students feel safe and validated when they are able to express their ideas in their home language.
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