Teachers’ and students’ perspectives of translanguaging as a pedagogical tool to facilitate elt in Indonesia

The popularity of translanguaging has contributed in recent decades to the rise of English Language Teaching (ELT) in the classroom. Thus, translanguaging could help the teacher as a pedagogical tool to facilitate ELT. However, the concept of translanguaging could be seen negatively in an English as Foreign Language (EFL) context. Hence, this research aims to investigate the teachers‘ and students‘ perspective of translanguaging as a pedagogical tool to facilitate ELT in Indonesia. Case study was chosen in this study to obtain in-depth information about the use of translanguaging in ELT through Forum Group Discussion (FGD) and interviews with ten students and six teachers from SMPN 1 Buduran and MTsN 2 Sidoarjo. The findings revealed that from the teachers' perspectives, translanguaging serves as a pedagogical scaffold for concept explanation, enhances student participation and communication, aids in classroom management and instruction, supports low English proficiency students, and fosters class rapport and comfort. Moreover, students see translanguaging as a means to better comprehend lesson content, facilitate communication among peers, and increase their confidence in expressing their thought.