Resources for Participants: Translanguaging in the Classroom- Dr Sue Ollerhead
Dr Sue Ollerhead, Macquarie University
Wednesday 5 August 2020, 4:00-5:00pm
Online Webinar
In this workshop, Sue discussed the important role that students’ home languages play in their classroom learning. She explored the rationale for using translanguaging as a pedagogical approach and present some key classroom translanguaging strategies used by teachers to create more inclusive and engaging learning experiences for multilingual learners.
The session was aimed mostly at upper primary and secondary teachers, but the principles can be applied in wide range of contexts.
Dr Sue Ollerhead is a lecturer in Languages Education at the School of Education at Macquarie University. She has worked extensively as a teacher, teacher trainer and researcher in South Africa, Egypt, the United Kingdom, India and Australia. Her current research focuses on translanguaging pedagogies in culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms. Sue is co-editor of the book Plurilingualism in Teaching and Learning: Complexities across Contexts (2018) and the special issue of the Australian Journal of Applied Linguistics: Translanguaging as a resource in teaching and learning (2020).
