Materials Review: The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning

So often teachers and teacher educators have to choose between a book that is skewed heavily toward either theory or practice; rarely does the literature adequately cover both. Ofelia García, Susana Ibarra Johnson, and Kate Seltzer’s recent book The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism
for Learning (García, Ibarra Johnson, & Seltzer, 2017) does just that, however. Their work blends both theory and practice, making it not only appropriate, but much needed, for both preservice and inservice teachers who have (or will have) emergent bilinguals in their K–12 classroom.