MA Lingg student Abee Eijansantos’ co-authored chapter, “Assessing Language Attitudes Towards Translanguaging of Young Adult Learners in a Multilingual Setting,” was recently published by Springer. It is part of the book, “Translanguaging for Empowerment and Equity Language Practices in Philippine Education and Other Public Spaces.” Below is the abstract of the chapter:
Assessing Language Attitudes Towards Translanguaging of Young Adult Learners in a Multilingual Setting
Attitudes are decisive factors in students’ involvement in their language learning at school which influence their expectations for academic success (Cummins, 1993). Language attitudes also play a vital role in students’ successful maintenance of their first language (Döpke et al., 1991). With this, the current study examines the attitude towards translanguaging among 512 multilingual learners who come from linguistically diverse settings, causing struggle in their use of several languages in their speech community. The investigation employs a developed and reliability-tested questionnaire informed by the Tripartite Model of Attitude by Rosenberg et al. (1960). Considering gender and socio-economic status, the study reveals mixed findings in terms of the learners’ attitude towards translanguaging. Although translanguaging is seen as an important resource for learning, this has yet to be fully and formally implemented by relevant agencies as an effective instructional strategy that can be adopted as an integral part of multilingual education in the country.
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Published by UP Department of Linguistics
