Meeting School Challenges
In Chapter 4 of Translanguaging for Emergent Bilinguals , Fu, Hadjioannou, and Zhou present the challenges of bilingual students and translanguaging for students within the American education system. Many of these challenges seem to be institutional failings or complete lack of understanding on the part of teachers who are in-charge of teaching these students. The chapter also goes into detail on some of the solutions to these issues. The issues facing translanguaging students in the modern day classroom are lack of budget and experienced teachers. Many teachers and schools do not seem to understand/lack the required experience or knowledge to know how to properly handle a classroom where translanguaging and bilingualism is common place. Schools also lack the budget, or refuse to fit into the budget, programs to teach teachers how to properly handle these classrooms and students. In the chapter, we get the statistic, "Only 39% of the teachers and administrators...