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Conference proceeding
Translanguaging and the Development of Intercultural Identity
Published 20/12/2022
Language, Cultures, Ethnos: The Formation of the Linguistic World-image, 191 - 200
Languages, Cultures, Ethnos. The Formation of the Linguistic World-image: Philological and Methodic Aspects, 25/03/2022–25/03/2022, Mari State University, Russia
This paper discusses translanguaging as an effective bilingual English language teaching approach based on recent work done in China to support undergraduate business students. The project team designed a series of bilingual interventions to build discipline-specific vocabulary, increase communication opportunities on social media, and employed a bilingual teaching assistant to facilitate a choice of Mandarin or English languages for students. The findings of the project demonstrated strong support for translanguaging strategies from student surveys, analysis of Wechat social media conversation logs, and the students' high academic achievement. Recommendations conclude that teachers have an essential role in encouraging the use of home and foreign languages in learning in order to assist the development of intercultural identity.