Ofelia García - Translanguaging

Talk of Prof. Ph.D. Ofelia García on the subject "Translanguaging" during the Multilingualism & Diversity Lectures 2017.

- Translanguaging is the use of the full linguistic repertoire “without regard for watchful adherence to the socially and politically defined boundaries of named languages”.
- Oftentimes, it is assumed that bilinguals have one dominant language, and thus there is a hierarchical relationship between their known languages.
- Bisection of the natural available meaning-making-system of a child (for bilinguals) should be encouraged.
- A translanguaging classroom takes the student’s unitary linguistic system into account. It offers the opportunity to deploy the full linguistic repertoire.

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The talk was recorded during the international ring lecture MuDiLe (Multilingualism and Diversity Lectures) 2017 which took place at the University of Hildesheim (Bühler Campus) from 6/7/2017 to 9/7/2017. We had the honour of hearing the interesting and inspiring talks of internationally relevant academics. Ofelia Garcia, who is Professor at the City University of New York – The Graduate Center, Urban Education Program, was one of them and talked about multilingual acquisition through a translanguaging lens.
This lecture is in cooperation with the Competence Area V Social Inequalities and Intercultural Education (SINTER) of the Excellence Initiative of the University of Cologne.