Emergentist Approach

Question 1

Emergentist approach

Answer 1

• Complex dynamic systems (CDS)

Question 2

Ket features of CDS

Answer 2

• Multiple agents interacting w/ one another
• Adpative: speakers’ behavior based on past interactions, current & past interactions together feed forward into future behavior
  -Speaker’s behavior is consequence of competing factors ranging from perceptual constraints to social motivations
• Structures of lang emerge from interrelated atterns of experience, social interaction, and cognitive mechanisms

Question 3

Translanguaging

Answer 3

Purposeful atlternation of lang mode of input and output in a variety of bilingual classrooms

Question 4

Pros of translanguaging

Answer 4

-Acknowledges learner’s L1
-Validates both languages
-Enhanced linguistic awareness (cross-ling similarities or diff)
-Multilingual competence