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Laughing, learning, and translanguaging for newcomers with emerging print literacy
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SSHRC IDG awarded 2024: Laughter can bring people together and promote resilience. It can also express defiance and ridicule. The interconnection of language and laughter could be heard in the hallways and in those rare moments languages other than English were allowed into the classroom. Multilingual children who are new to Canada and learning to read and write for the first time can be constructed as at-risk, traumatized, and illiterate – understandings that can lead to students being pitied and teachers lowering their expectations. Finding moments of laughter can enhance students' well-being and sense of belonging. This research is concerned with the interconnection between laughter and language with multilingual newcomer students in Grade 4 to 9 who have emerging print literacy in any language. Incorporating humour and laughter moves the lens away from perceived deficits in print literacy and mental health, which has been the focus of much research and policy-making of late. The first objective is to understand how to incorporate laughter and translanguaging into classrooms with newcomer students who are learning to read and write for the first time in Grades 4 to 9. A second object is to understand how translanguaging and laughter affect students’ sense of belonging. A third objective is to elicit questions and insights that the students have about language, laughter, and belonging in their classrooms and engage them as child researchers. Through this research, I will demonstrate that translanguaging is one way to create a strong sense of belonging for students, where laughter unifies their classrooms.teaching strategies, and resources that could deepen students’ historical thinking and potentially make history education more relevant, justice-oriented and capable of negotiating the complex ways the past is used and abused in the present.
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- 2024-02-10
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- Research Material
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- ©️Brubacher, Katie. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2028.