A Transraciolinguistic Approach for Literacy Classrooms

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Abstract

Across the globe, students increasingly use literacies to cross boundaries, locally and globally, virtually and geographically, willingly and involuntarily. They cross these boundaries with versatile linguistic backgrounds that allow them to effectively navigate new school and life worlds. Many students who cross boundaries are students of color who wrestle with what it means to critically read the word and the world even as they grapple with racialization. At the intersection of students’ border-crossing, languaging, and racialization are opportunities for understanding how teachers can center race by identifying and leveraging literate assets that immigrant and transnational students of color use to make meaning in and beyond classrooms. In this article, I present a transraciolinguistic approach as an intersectional and critical tool for centering race and racialized language while also addressing border-crossing in students’ literacy practice. Recommendations for teachers who wish to foster a transraciolinguistic approach to support critical literacy practice for all students are discussed.
Original languageAmerican English
JournalThe Reading Teacher
Volume75
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022

Keywords

  • Code switching
  • Critical literacy
  • Critical pedagogy
  • Critical theory
  • Linguistics
  • Dialects
  • English as a second language
  • English for speakers of other languages
  • English language learners
  • English learners
  • Home language
  • Home language practices
  • Home-school connections
  • Immigration
  • In-service
  • Language
  • Metacognition
  • Multilingualism
  • Race
  • Sociocultural
  • Sociolinguistic
  • Translanguaging
  • Transraciolinguistics
  • Writing
  • 2-Childhood
  • 3-Early adolescence
  • 4-Adolescence

Disciplines

  • Education

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