Translanguaging stance of preschool teachers in Luxembourg

In 2017, the new law declared multilingual education mandatory in Luxembourg where there are 65% of 4-year-old language minority children. To support 40 teachers with the new law requirement that asked teachers to use children’s home languages in the classroom, we offered a 6-month professional development course in translanguaging pedagogy that builds on children’s full linguistic repertoire. Mixed methods were used such as focus groups, questionnaires, and video observations. Through pre- and post-course focus groups we identified three groups of teachers: (1) those with mild monolingual sta... Mehr ...