Relanguaging Translingual Writing in a Khayelitshan Primary School

Autor/in	Krause-Alzaidi, Lara-Stephanie
Titel	Relanguaging Translingual Writing in a Khayelitshan Primary School
Quelle	In: Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 20 (2023) 3, S.237-257 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Krause-Alzaidi, Lara-Stephanie)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1542-7587
DOI	10.1080/15427587.2023.2258242
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Language Usage; Writing (Composition); Elementary Education; Code Switching (Language); Elementary School Students; English; Language of Instruction; Blacks; Racial Segregation; African Languages; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sprachgebrauch; Schreibübung; Elementarunterricht; English language; Englisch; Teaching language; Unterrichtssprache; Black person; Schwarzer; Rassentrennung; Africa; Language; Languages; Afrika; Sprachen; Afrikanische Sprache; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Linguistic heterogeneity and fluidity--prominently captured in the notion of 'translanguaging'-- are starting to be seen as normative and natural. In turn, homogeneity and fixity, instantiated for example in standard languages, are becoming the 'odd-ones-out.' I challenge the dichotomy between linguistic fluidity (languaging) and fixity (named languages), in a situated conceptual account of translingual writing practices in English classrooms in a Khayelitshan primary school. These spaces fold the linguistic fluidity typical of South African townships, and the fixity of two standard languages, into one complex spatial repertoire. Operationalizing this spatial perspective, I suggest that students are constantly engaged in "relanguaging," recursively "sorting out" the classroom repertoire according to the various linguistic norms enfolded in the space, and of "bringing together" linguistic resources in various combinations. Relanguaging systematically unsettles the dichotomy between fluid languaging and fix institutional language norms retained in dominant conceptualizations of translanguaging. This way it opens up new conceptual and analytical perspectives with possible pedagogical implication for writing instruction and testing. Standard English could, for example, be assessed beyond its own confines, using writing tasks that can make visible increasingly sophisticated linguistic sorting skills as students. (As Provided).
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