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Owner: Yeojoo Yoon
Owner Email: yyoon@csuchico.edu
Paper Title: Performative Translanguaging in a Monolithic Classroom: Decolonizing and Liberating Language Practices of Linguistically Minoritized Children
Session Title: Mirrors, Windows, Sliding Glass Doors: Critical Approaches in ECE (Early Childhood Education) to Counter-Stories, Language, and Literature (Table 14)
Paper Type: Roundtable Presentation
Presentation Date: 4/12/2024
Presentation Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Descriptors: Early Childhood, Immigrants, Language Processes
Methodology: Qualitative
Author(s): Yeojoo Yoon, California State University - Chico
Unit: SIG-Critical Perspectives on Early Childhood Education
Abstract: In this paper, I examine two young immigrant and emergent bilingual children’s paper bag play with translanguaging practices in a monolithic classroom. Drawing upon translanguaging theory with a posthumanists lens, I discuss 1) how the linguistically minoritized children’s translanguaging practices are intertwined with other modes of communication and materials and 2) how the unbounded dynamic of translanguaging facilitates semiotic and material flows in performative ways and reconfigures power dynamics in the classroom. This study provides insights into the possibilities of translanguaging as decolonizing approach and liberating action for emergent bilingual children.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3102/2105077