Thank you for this thoughtful reflection! I really liked how you linked translanguaging to both creating emotional connections and social belonging. I feel like looking at language use as a part of being human instead of a skill has become such a core concept in our classroom.
Your point about language planning being the same as social planning highlighted how schools silently decide who gets to belong through their language policies. This point, tied into García and Li Wei's paper on creating a space open for students to take charge of how they communicate in the classroom, seemed like a great way to mitigate the issues posed by policy.
For your discussion on Yu's study, I liked how you emphasized that people chose emotional bonds over established protocols. This was such an important distinction. There is so much more to language than just being able to understand what the other person is saying. Actually, perhaps being able to understand what another person is saying, in whatever shape or form, is the first step to creating emotional connections. I also thought the podcast episode's take on semilingualism to be compelling. Bilingualism is racialized in the sense that the same linguistic behaviors are pathologized in some communities and praised in others.
Your point about language planning being the same as social planning highlighted how schools silently decide who gets to belong through their language policies. This point, tied into García and Li Wei's paper on creating a space open for students to take charge of how they communicate in the classroom, seemed like a great way to mitigate the issues posed by policy.
For your discussion on Yu's study, I liked how you emphasized that people chose emotional bonds over established protocols. This was such an important distinction. There is so much more to language than just being able to understand what the other person is saying. Actually, perhaps being able to understand what another person is saying, in whatever shape or form, is the first step to creating emotional connections. I also thought the podcast episode's take on semilingualism to be compelling. Bilingualism is racialized in the sense that the same linguistic behaviors are pathologized in some communities and praised in others.