TITLE:
Gender Disparity of Translanguaging in Language Forms—A Case Study of Excellent English Teachers in Chinese Secondary Schools
AUTHORS:
Guojie Yin
KEYWORDS:
Translanguaging, Language Form, Difference, Gender
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.11 No.3,
March
29,
2023
ABSTRACT: Translanguaging is an important part of research in language and characters,
although it has not reached a unanimous definition. It exists in the process of
teaching in different forms of language, and the use of it may vary according
to individual differences among teachers. This paper explores the use of
different forms of language and gender differences in translanguaging among 10
excellent English teachers in Chinese secondary schools, with records on a
classroom observation sheet. After a combination of quantitative and
qualitative analyses, results show that differences appear among individual
teachers in the use of different forms of language in class, and male teachers
tend to use more body language than the target language and students’ native
language, while female teachers tend to use more target language than body
language and students’ native language. The results offer us a more thorough
understanding about gender differences in translanguaging.