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This qualitative research study focuses on English language learners who are continuing their education in the U.S. high schools and examines their translanguaging in the classroom. When students are learning a second language, they use their linguistic repertoire and their knowledge in English and their native language for negotiation of meaning. In order to gain a better understanding of the students' translanguaging, one ESL teacher and 10 ESL students were interviewed and observed in a classroom. The ESL students spoke Arabic as their native language and had beginning to intermediate proficiency levels. The findings of the study showed that English language learners use various strategies to make the content comprehensible by making connections between their knowledge in their L1 and L2.

Three Decades in Family and Community Life, Shirley Brice Heath revisits, after 30 years, the grown children of the Trackton and Roadville communities she introduced in her seminal 1983 work Ways with Words: Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms. In her new work, as the subtitle suggests, Brice explores how the life experiences of these South Carolina families have influenced their relationships and use of language. As with the original work, this book represents a major contribution to the fields of linguistic anthropology, sociolinguistics, and educational linguistics.