An Observational Study of Translanguaging Practices by Pre-Service Teacher in Senior High School

Abstract

This study aims to explain how translanguaging is practice by pre-service teacher in senior high school. Because, there is limited research related to the practice of translanguaging conducted by the Senior High School’s English pre-service teachers in Indonesia. The setting of this research in senior high school Yogyakarta. This research conducted two observations in two different schools. The researcher used thematic analysis to analyze the data by Braun and Clarke (2006). During class observations data collection will be obtained through video recorders and field notes used by researchers. This research used theoretical framework from Tse (1996), that tranlanguaging practice consist of code-switching, translation & interpreting and language brokering. Then, the result of video recording transcribed and analyzed based on observational teacher-student’s interaction. The results of the data can be seen that the two most used types are Tag switching and Intra-sentential switching.