JALT2025 - Tokyo

Monolingual Foreign Teachers' Translanguaging Practices in EMI/EFL

Nov 1, 2025, 11:35 AM

30m

National Olympics Memorial Youth Center / 国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター

Research-oriented Presentation (30-minutes) Language Classroom Content Room 407

Speaker

Dalton Le (Chulalongkorn University)

Description

This presentation will detail the results of a qualitative interview-based study on the translanguaging practices of foreign teachers in secondary school EMI and EFL programs in Thailand. These practices will be analyzed within the translanguaging stance, design, and shift framework and compared across the programs, highlighting how foreign teachers with low to no proficiency in students' L1 navigate their students' learning needs as well as the language expectations and requirements of their school's language programs.

Summary

This presentation will detail the results of a qualitative interview-based study on the translanguaging practices of foreign teachers in secondary school EMI and EFL programs in Thailand. These practices will be analyzed within the translanguaging stance, design, and shift framework and compared across the programs, highlighting how foreign teachers with low to no proficiency in students' L1 navigate their students' learning needs as well as the language expectations and requirements of their school's language programs.