Please view the link above which will take you to this week journal review.
This article feeds me a very practical taste, it points out the discrepancy from rigorous academic context to real-world communities. The challenges teachers face in the modern society "are not to add more languages, but to recognize the multiple language practices that heterogeneous populations increasingly bring and which integrated schooling,"
Throughout the journal, it discusses the existing situation that nowadays most linguists analyze the bilingual education in a monoglossic lens. The separation rule in bilingual education can't reflect the need of students and against the nature of language development. It even violates the human right, social justice, and social practices.
In my understanding, translanguing seems to be a must-be element in second language learning after reading this journal because I recognize the fact of "fuzziness of language boundaries and fluidity in language identity". Some bilingual education is implemented in a positive way, for instance, in Luxembourg, but it still lacks well-designed curriculum and only conceives sequential program. Translanguaging is an L1+L2 concept, it includes the cultural strength and develops students' metalinguistic awareness. It allows students in a multilingual classroom acquire other languages without waiting for the assistance form teacher only.
All in all, even many teachers skirt the translanguaging to comply with academic standards, political concern or personal interest, it is a pragmatic practice in class and provides teacher and students constructive learning pedagogically and cognitively.
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