Translanguaging for the construction of instructional immediacy in a Mandarin–Japanese crosslinguistic class

Zhang, Haoruo, Wang, Yi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4175-7467, Zhou, Xingchen, Mao, Wei and Xie, Qianqian 2024. Translanguaging for the construction of instructional immediacy in a Mandarin–Japanese crosslinguistic class. Review of Applied Linguistics 10.1515/applirev-2024-0128 Item availability restricted.

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Abstract

Accumulating studies on teachers’ instructional immediacy consistently show a strong positive correlation with teaching effectiveness. To expand the research in a bilingual and cross-cultural context, the current study investigates the construction of instructional immediacy in a natural classroom setting by theoretically anchoring on translanguaging, which refers to the idea of promoting the integration of all linguistic and nonlinguistic resources to achieve effective pedagogy with multilingual speakers. We quantified the nonverbal facial expressions to compare the teacher’s endeavours in different language modes when constructing instructional immediacy, and we used Multimodal Conversation Analysis (MCA) to examine his endeavours. The results revealed language-specific facial expressions which are attributed to varied teaching purposes. We conclude that translanguaging can serve as an effective tool for fostering instructional immediacy in multilingual classrooms.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	In Press
Schools:	English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	De Gruyter
ISSN:	1868-6303
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	31 October 2024
Date of Acceptance:	22 August 2024
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2024 05:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/173557

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