Translanguaging As A Strategy For Promoting Academic Literacy: Students’ And Teachers’ Perceptions The Case Of Master One Efl Students And Teachers At Chadli Bendjedid University
Auteurs : Khaldoun Abdelkader .
Résumé
In the realm of education, the integration of several languages for the development of a specific language (English for example) has recently become a trending topic among scholars and educators. Translanguaging as a new strategy supports the use of the entire linguistic repertoire during the teaching and learning processes rather than the exclusive reliance on the target language. This research explores the perceptions of English as a foreign language (henceforth EFL) students and teachers at Chadli Bendjedid University, EL-Tarf towards the use of translanguaging strategy and its implementation in academic literacy. It also attempts to find answers to the main questions raised in this research, which are related to teachers and students’ perceptions towards the implementation of translanguaging as a strategy to promote students’ academic literacy. Therefore, a descriptive approach with mixed methodsof data collection and analysis were employed. A questionnaire was addressed to 30 master one students of English from the aforementioned university in order to collect data about their perceptions towardsthe use of translanguaging for promoting their academic literacy. Besides, an interview was conducted with 10 teachers from the same department to capture their attitudes towards the integration of translanguaging in classrooms to support students’ academic reading and writing. The results revealed that the majority of students have positive perspectives towards using translanguaging as a strategy to promote academic literacy; moreover, half of the participant teachers have shown a support to the implementation of translanguaging, whereas the other half exhibited a resistance to its integration in their practices. The research concludes with some recommendations and attempts to eventually suggest multilingual strategies and actions for literacy development through translanguaging.
Mots clés
Translanguaging, literacy development, multilingual strategies,teachers’ and students’ perceptions
