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Translanguaging in education

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Bonacina-Pugh F, da Costa Cabral I & Huang J (2021) Translanguaging in education. Language Teaching, 54 (4), pp. 439-471. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0261444821000173

Abstract
This state-of-the-art review focuses on translanguaging in education. In recent years, scholars have engaged in the conceptualisation of ‘translanguaging’ (e.g. García, 2009; García & Wei, 2014a; Wei, 2018) as well as in conducting a vast and ever-increasing number of empirical studies, in educational contexts in particular. This article aims to take stock of the different ways in which ‘translanguaging’ has been conceptualised and of the ways in which it has been interpreted and applied in the study of multilingualism in diverse educational contexts across the globe. Our review exercise shows that ‘translanguaging’ has been conceptualised within two different approaches, which we propose to call the ‘fixed language approach’ and the ‘fluid languaging approach’. It further shows how ‘translanguaging’ has been studied within these two approaches in different educational contexts. We finish our review by calling for new methodologies adapted to a linguistics of fluidity and by considering critically translanguaging as a scholarly phenomenon.

Keywords
Linguistics and Language; Language and Linguistics

Journal
Language Teaching: Volume 54, Issue 4

StatusPublished
Funders
Publication date31/10/2021
Publication date online17/11/2021
Date accepted by journal30/06/2021
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP)
ISSN0261-4448
eISSN1475-3049

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Dr Ildegrada da Costa Cabral

Dr Ildegrada da Costa Cabral

Lecturer in Education (TESOL), Education