The authors trace the development of the concept of translanguaging, focusing on its
relation to literacies. The authors describe its connection to literacy studies, with particular …

Abstract Since Cen Williams first used the Welsh term trawsieithu in 1994 to refer to a
pedagogical practice where students in bilingual Welsh/English classrooms are asked to …

Learning through the medium of a second or additional language is becoming very common
in different parts of the world because of the increasing use of English as the language of …

ABSTRACT Following Boaventura de Sousa Santos, the authors of this article reject the type
of “abyssal thinking” that erases the existence of counter-hegemonic knowledges and …

Translanguaging has opened up spaces to recognize the dynamic multilingualism of
students in classrooms taught in dominant languages, and problematized concepts such as …

Following the multilingual trend in language education, translanguaging advocates active
use of multiple languages and other meaning-making resources in a dynamic and …

Over the past 40 years, Jim Cummins has proposed a number of highly influential theoretical
concepts, including the threshold and interdependence hypotheses and the distinction …

Teaching English has traditionally been associated with a monolingual bias and the
exclusive use of English in the classroom is highly recommended in different countries …

Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South provides an
original appraisal of the latest innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the …

The concepts of plurilingualism and translanguaging are explained and distinguished,
showing how each has contributed to transformations in the study of bilingualism and …