It has to be in a natural way': A critical exploration of co-teaching relationships in trilingual preschool classrooms in Hong Kong

It has to be in a natural way': A critical exploration of co-teaching relationships in trilingual preschool classrooms in Hong Kong

• Sanders-Smith, Stephanie C. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Davila, Liv T. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, (0), -, 2021

Routledge

2021

• F Learning & Teaching
  • FE Medium of Instruction, Language of Teaching, Bi-& Multilingual Education, Problems of Bilingualism, Code-mixing & Code-switching

Early Tears Trilingual Co-teaching

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Pre-Primary Education

Post-colonial Hong Kong is an officially trilingual city with significant numbers of residents speaking English, Cantonese, Mandarin, or some combination of all three. Competency in these languages is promoted through educational policies and practices at all levels of schooling. Using concepts from the Deweyan framework of democracy and education, this article explores relational practices among bilingual co-teachers at a private, international early years programme in Hong Kong that emphasizes democratic philosophies of learning in their efforts to promote trilingualism. Findings point to co-teachers' interest in developing collaborative relationships, and prompting interest in additional language use through promotion of children's interests, along with tensions they experience as they grapple with instruction in multiple languages. Findings point to a need for more nuanced understandings of co-teaching dynamics in post-colonial multilingual learning contexts. Copyright ©2021 Routledge.

• English

Journal Articles

• 01434632

• 10.1080/01434632.2021.1957902

https://bibliography.lib.eduhk.hk/en/bibs/77431624

2022-05-12