This book presents the background to the current shift in language education towards action-
oriented/action-based teaching, and provides a theorization of the Action-oriented Approach …

Translanguaging theories emphasize a fluid, dynamic view of language and differ from code-
switching/mixing theories by de-centring the analytic focus from the language (s) being used …

medium instruction (EMI), English-as-a-second-language students will learn all/some
subjects through English. Although there are a considerable number of studies which …

This book is about language and the city. Pennycook and Otsuji introduce the notion of
'metrolingualism', showing how language and the city are deeply involved in a perpetual …

Ecology has become a central question governing the survival and sustainability of human
societies, cultures and languages. In this timely study, Michael Cronin investigates how the …

The growth trajectory of ethnically and linguistically diverse individuals in the United States,
particularly for youth, compels the education system to have urgent awareness of how …

This article reviews recent scholarship in language, identity, and education. It critically
reflects on developments in sociolinguistics as researchers have engaged with the …

This paper presents a critical examination of key concepts in the study of (signed and
spoken) language and multimodality. It shows how shifts in conceptual understandings of …

The aim of this article is to explore the connections between the concepts of the linguistic
repertoire, of language ideologies, and of lived experience of language. In foregrounding …

This article looks at translanguaging and its development and summarizes the articles in this
special issue. The difference between code-switching and translanguaging is explained as …