Bilingualism CQ4

Code-switching only refers to when a bilingual switches between languages in the same sentence

FALSE

Bilinguals code-switch randomly from one language to the other regardless of the rules of the two languages

FALSE

For García (2009), translanguaging is bilinguals' communicative practices that make sense of their bilingual worlds.

TRUE

Translanguaging highlights the use of a bilingual's linguistic resources without boundaries to create meaning

TRUE

As a pedagogical approach, translanguaging implies that students only use one language at a time in the classroom

FALSE

Code-switching and translanguaging practices can be viewed by language purists as a corruption to a bilingual's linguistic system.

TRUE

Dual language programs always embrace integrating the two languages during classroom instruction

FALSE

Codeswitching and translanguaging are purely linguistic phenomena regardless of social and power relations

FALSE

Translanguaging can help emerging bilingual children in problem solving because it allows them to think about the problem in both languages

TRUE

One of the challenges that bilingual children as language brokers face is interpreting messages that are linguistically and socially acceptable. This tends to require metalinguistic awareness

TRUE