Developing Translanguaging Repertoires in Critical Teacher Education

Chapter 3 Learning from Latinx pre-service teachers’ understandings of their linguistic repertoires

Kathryn I. Henderson

The University of Texas at San Antonio

Christian Fallas-Escobar

The University of Texas at San Antonio

Kristen Lindahl

The University of Texas at San Antonio

Abstract

This chapter presents what we learned from Latinx pre-service teachers’ (PSTs) understandings of their linguistic repertoires as depicted through language portraits. Drawing on the concept of the translanguaging stance or an educator’s way of being that views students’ families and communities as holders of knowledge and the classroom as a democratic space to work towards social justice, we demonstrate what we learned from Latinx PSTs language portraits ...