Teachers’ language use and attitudes towards multilingual education in primary education
The exclusive use of the target language in the classroom has dominated language teaching in the past. However, the mixing of languages, often referred as translanguaging is frequently observed in multilingual classrooms. The aim of this paper is to examine teachers’ linguistic choices in the classroom, and their attitudes towards the three languages in the educational context in the Valencian community. Data were collected in three schools adopting three different language models, namely those of an English-based, a Catalan-based, and a Spanish-based language model.