2021/02/11 by Alexis McBride, Robert T. Jiménez · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning #Multilingual Education and Policy #Second Language Learning and Teaching
paper · doi:10.1080/10790195.2021.1878073
openalex publication_date 2021/02/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
Despite increasing enrollments of foreign-born students in US community colleges, extant research on serving the needs of linguistic minority (LM) learners in higher education is decidedly scarce. When LM learners enter post-secondary settings, they simultaneously inherit the burden of securing the academic resources needed to navigate college coursework; within the post-secondary domain, this burden typically takes the form of required remediation classes. In the field of basic writing, scholars have already called for the implementation of multilingual or translingual approaches to address language differences. In response to these calls for multi/translingual approaches, this study considers the potential utility of translanguaging pedagogy in basic writing instruction, as an equitable means of assisting LM learners as they transition to community college settings. Two bodies of literature are evaluated: (1) research on LM learners and their transition to post-secondary settings; (2) research involving post-secondary translanguaging studies. Applying a theoretical lens informed by practice-based views toward bilingualism, this study identifies key components of post-secondary translanguaging studies that might be useful to the design of a future study involving community college LM learners in remedial writing classes.