User:MAMOPHARAOH/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
(Translanguaging)

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
It links towards my research interests. In addition, I would like to know more about the translanguaging as a pedagogy, identity, and as an educational tool for social justice education.

Evaluate the article
Lead Section: I think we need to add Code-meshing to the lead section to differentiate between Code-switching, code meshing, and translanguaging. In addition, I think we should add Bell Baker when she asserted that African Americans used to translangauge between their native language and the English language that they were forced to learn and speak by their white masters. Another paragraph can be added to give simple examples about the usage of translanguaging by some communities worldwide.

Content

History: A paragraph about colonization and the impact of it on education in some countries, such as India, Egypt...etc.

Translanguaging as an identity in some countries... Bell Barker Race ( Linguistic justice)

a brief description about the multilingual and bilingual education in the US ( 1970) and how theories such as Universal grammar and the INPUT theory contributed towards eliminating 1st language.

Interdisciplinary perspectives in second language acquisition opened the gate towards translanguaging (Cannajaragah).

Major Debates: I find this section to be neutral but it is ONLY US and UK centric. Translanguaging is not a term that exist or performed only by those who know English. or varieties of English... This should be addressed ... Matsuda's perspectives vs Canajaragah in translanguaging in education.

Code-meshing should be introduced in the section of Translangauging and code- switching... we should introduce the different perspectives of different linguists and educators

In the reference:

There are some scholars that are not mentioned such as Canagrajah, Geevers, Bell Baker....etc.

Feedback from Vetter
Hello - Great work on this article evaluation of [Translanguaging]. I think it's a perfect candidate to work on for this assignment because of how closely connected it is to your research area as well as because of the obvious developmental needs it demonstrates. In addition to the issues you've pointed out in terms of differentiating between code-meshing vs. code-switching, doing more to demonstrate how translanguaging is not focused only on English-speaking contexts is a really important editorial goal.

Just keep in mind that you don't need to take the article to any kind of "final version" - the assignment requirements are


 * Minimum of 4 references cited and added to Wikipedia article
 * Minimum of 300 words added to Wikipedia article

So really you could focus on 1-2 of the tasks you've mentioned. But I love the idea of bringing in more of the scholars you have read/worked through recently such as Matsuda and Canagarajah.

From my own perspective, I thought it strange that the emphasized translanguaging as a pedagogical method first and foremost, as it seems to me that the classrooms are always catching up or trying to align their practices with actual communication practices of bilingual/multilingual humans first and foremost.

Anyway hope this helps! I'm excited to see what you will do with this article. Keep in mind that a draft of your edits is due on Oct. 4.

-DarthVetter (talk) 15:44, 26 September 2022 (UTC)