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- Title
Translation activities in bilingual early childhood education: Children's perspectives and teachers' scaffolding.
- Authors
Kultti, Anne; Pramling, Niklas
- Abstract
In the present study we investigate empirically how six to sevenyear- old children with their teachers take on the challenge of translating the lyrics of a children's song from Finnish to English, analyzing how translation is collaboratively constituted by the participants. The study is informed by translanguaging theory and a sociocultural perspective on learning. The results show that the children respond to the challenge to translate through talking about how something is done instead of what a word means, and by attending to sound (making sense through a similar sounding word). It is also shown how the teachers scaffold the children who take on the task by introducing synonyms and antonyms, and using meta-markers. The importance of the differentiated set of practices engaged in by the participants for their development of linguistic and metalinguistic awareness is discussed.
- Subjects
EARLY childhood education; TRANSLATIONS; CHILDREN'S songs; BILINGUAL education; TEACHERS
- Publication
Multilingua, 2017, Vol 36, Issue 6, p703
- ISSN
0167-8507
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/multi-2016-0041