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TRANSLANGUAGING The term translanguaging refers to the use and alternation of two or more languages for receptive and productive uses, focusing on the practices that bilingual learners have in order to understand and comprehend better different subjects such as Natural Sciences, History and so on, and take advantage of those practices in the teaching process of the mentioned subjects. It also privileges the languages of the students as a semiotic system of linguistic and multimodal signs that together make up the speaker’s own communicative repertoire, which is expanded along with the use of the language in the learning process of different subjects (García & Li Wei, 2014). According to Baker (2001), the use of Translanguaging has four important potential advantages in the classroom: 1. It may promote a deeper and fuller understanding of the subject matter, 2. it may help the development of the weaker language, 3. it may facilitate home-school links and cooperation, 4. and it may help the integration of fluent speakers with early learners. Taking into account the previous information, the application of Translanguaging in this unit is essential to leverage the use of the languages the students have by expanding and promoting the use of their own repertoire.
