Language Educators' Exchange
The Language Educators' Exchange is a podcast for language enthusiasts and learners of all levels, hosted by Drs. Sarah Albrecht and Aniqa Shah. Every month, we dive into the fascinating world of language teaching and learning, offering expert insights and practical tips from language educators and researchers. Our episodes are packed with the latest techniques in language teaching and ideas for turning research into practice. We invite you to tune in on the 15th of every month to join us for engaging discussions that will enhance your teaching journey and inspire your passion for language education!
Language Educators' Exchange
Episode 6: Using Translation for Language and Literacy Teaching
In this episode, Sarah, one of our co-hosts, takes a deep dive into using pedagogical translation for language and literacy teaching. Pedagogical translation can be used across ages, language-learning stages, and content-area contexts, so tune in to see how you might use it in your teaching environment.
Show notes:
For more information on topics discussed in this episode, please see the following:
OER teacher's guide using translation in the world language classroom (these activities can be adapted for other learning environments):
Incorporating Translation in the World Language Classroom: A Teacher's Guide: https://opentextbooks.library.arizona.edu/scolina/
Transfer of content learned in one language into another (common underlying proficiency):
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5571872/#:~:text=Cummins%20(1981)%20introduced%20the%20idea,L2%20are%20not%20separate%20abilities.
Escamilla et al.'s Así se dice translation activity:
Escamilla, K., Hopewell, S., Butvilofsky, S., Sparrow, W., Soltero-González, L., Ruiz-Figueroa, O., & Escamilla, M. (2014). Biliteracy from the start: Literacy squared in action (pp. 25-26). Philadelphia, PA: Caslon Publishing.
Preschool verbal translation activity:
Kultti, A., & Pramling, N. (2017). Translation activities in bilingual early childhood education: Children’s perspectives and teachers’ scaffolding. Multilingua, 36(6), 703-725.
Poetry translation in mixed world-heritage language Spanish class:
Albrecht, S. Pedagogical translation for reading comprehension in mixed HL‐L2 secondary classrooms. Foreign Language Annals.
Pedagogical translation as a culturally-sustaining pedagogy:
Albrecht, S., Hill, C., & Smith, K. J. (2023). Pedagogical Translation as a Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy in Bilingual Language Environments. English in Texas, 53(2), 42-49.
