Author: Dayna Hillcrest

8 December 2021


MinneTESOL Journal, (2021), Vol. 37(Issue 2)

Academic benefit of translanguaging

 The following work builds an argument for translanguaging by looking at two key academic benefits for supporting translanguaging use in the classroom. Firstly, translanguaging helped multilingual learners comprehend and communicate about subject area content and, secondly, it improved their English proficiency by…
0 By Dayna Hillcrest 
dhillcrest01@hamline.edu

Dayna Hillcrest has a Master of Teaching from Hamline University and is currently working toward an ESL K-12 license to add to her World Language K-12: Spanish license. Her 10 years of teaching experience includes teaching English to adults in Germany and teaching Spanish and ESL to students ranging from K to 12th grade in charter and public schools in Minnesota. She currently teaches at Princeton District 477. Dayna’s master work, called A Professional Development Program to Improve Reading Comprehension for Secondary Students, demonstrates her passion for helping students improve their reading proficiency.