Open AccessAn English Learner as a Cultural Broker for Youth Interviews
Author(s) -
Cynthia Reyes
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2019.3671
Subject(s) - translanguaging , cognitive reframing , active listening , pedagogy , agency (philosophy) , sociology , field (mathematics) , psychology , discourse analysis , linguistics , social psychology , social science , philosophy , mathematics , communication , pure mathematics
In the field of student voice, listening is a notion that is made more complex when related to student participation and agency. To listen to who English learners are requires a reframing of these students against the deficit discourse that is often used to describe their linguistic competencies. Discourse analysis is employed to examine the translanguaging experiences of an adolescent English learner who assisted the researcher in interviews with his peers. This empirical piece asks the question of what researchers can learn when employing the use of students as brokers when conducting interviews. Translanguaging is considered an element of cultural brokering in this piece and emphasized as a method for engaging student voice in educational research.