Languages are not enemies but friends’: Primary school teachers’ attitudes towards the use of translanguaging in the EFL classroom
This investigation analyses 12 EFL primary school teachers’ attitudes towards the use of translanguaging practices in the EFL classroom from education system of the Valencian Community, where foreign language lessons tend to follow a strict monolingual paradigm that does not consider students' L1s (Catalan and/or Spanish) and prior language learning experiences. The study also explores the effect of individual variables on teachers’ attitudes, which include teachers’ L1(s) and previous training on multilingualism.