Danielle Joo
About
Danielle Joo is an MA TESOL graduate student at the University of Minnesota. She has been teaching English as a foreign/second language (EFL/SL) for over 5 years and is currently researching a pedagogical translanguaging teaching approach in EFL classrooms in South Korea. Her research interests focus more on finding ways to improve Korea’s English education policies.Sessions
Asynchronous (Online) Project TRANSLATE: A Pedagogical Translation Approach in Improving English Language and Literacy Skills to Emergent Bilinguals more
Fri, Apr 28, 12:00-Thu, Jun 1, 00:05 Asia/Seoul
This presentation will delve into how EFL teachers can leverage the home languages of their emergent bilingual students to develop English language and literacy skills through collaborative translation. This presentation will include developed materials, anecdotes, and professional learnings from the experience of bringing this pedagogy to life, along with highlighted student work that was produced. Affordances and constraints of collaborative translation for different contexts and settings will be discussed. As part of this discussion, common questions will be addressed, such as how to use TRANSLATE when an EFL teacher does not share the same home language as their students. It is our hope that conference participants come away from this demonstration with tangible strategies for leveraging bi/multilingual students’ home languages in all content areas including EFL instruction. Similarly, we hope this presentation encourages conference participants to generate additional pedagogical strategies that leverage students’ complete linguistic and cultural repertoires.