Translanguaging in Multilingual English Classrooms

Viniti Vaish holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. She is currently an Associate Professor at Singapore’s National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, where she teaches courses in Applied Linguistics. Her research interests include the documentation, measurement and enhancement of bilingualism and biliteracy in individuals and communities. Viniti speaks Hindi, Urdu and English, and reads Hindi, English and Sanskrit.

• 1 The Linguistic Ecology of Singapore.- 2 Methodology 1: Translanguaging and the Classroom.- 3 Methodology 2: Coding Bilingual Transcripts.- 4 Comparing Monolingual and Bilingual Classrooms.- 5 Interactional Patterns in the Malay Group.- 6 Interactional Patterns in the Chinese Group.- 7 The Storytellers: Oral Retelling of Bilingual Children Struggling to Read in English.- 8 Conclusions and Future Directions.