Translanguaging About, With, and Through Code and Computing: Emergent Bi/Multilingual Middle Schoolers Forging Computational Literacies
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Translanguaging About, With, and Through Code and Computing: Emergent Bi/Multilingual Middle Schoolers Forging Computational Literacies
Abstract/Description
As computing pervades more aspects of life, and as Computer Science for All (CS for All) initiatives roll out across the U.S., the field must understand the experiences and language practices of emergent bi/multilingual K-12 students and use that knowledge to drive equitable pedagogical and programmatic approaches. But little is known about how emergent bi/multilingual students — a growing population that school systems have often viewed with deficit-based lenses and have thus struggled to educate equitably — use language in the context of CS education. This dissertation addresses this gap by (1) qualitatively documenting and using asset-based frames to analyze moments when emergent bilingual middle schoolers translanguaged (flexibly orchestrated linguistic, semiotic, and technological resources) as they participated in computational literacies in CS-integrated Language Arts, English-as-a-New Language, and Social Studies units co-designed by teachers and researchers working together in a research-practice partnership. It also (2) captures insights about how students understood their meaning-making choices in those moments and (3) uses findings from this empirical work to generate theory about the relationships between translanguaging and computational literacies. Findings provide evidence that emergent bi/multilingual students’ diverse language practices are assets in CS education, and enabled the forging of new meaningful computational literacies. This project lays groundwork for CS practitioners to meaningfully include emergent bi/multilingual students and for bilingual education to consider computing’s role in languaging and expression.
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Date
Institution
City University of New York
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Thesis/Dissertation
Scholarship genre
Empirical
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IRE Approach/Concept
Open access/full-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
No
ISBN
9798664790450
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Citation
Vogel, S. (2020). Translanguaging About, With, and Through Code and Computing: Emergent Bi/Multilingual Middle Schoolers Forging Computational Literacies [Ph.D., City University of New York]. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations/docview/2446005590/abstract/B8F006AC8B446CBPQ/48
Num pages
452
Rights
Database copyright ProQuest LLC; ProQuest does not claim copyright in the individual underlying works.
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