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 …

Conceptualizations of competence that permeate applied linguistics systematically fail to
account for the role of racialization in language learning and assessments thereof. To …

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

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 …

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 …

Looking like a Language, Sounding like a Race examines the emergence of linguistic and
ethnoracial categories in the context of Latinidad. The book draws from more than twenty …

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

The rise of English as a global language has led scholars to call for a paradigm shift in the
field of English language teaching (ELT) to match the new sociolinguistic landscape of the …

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 …