Translanguaging as Transformation

The Collaborative Construction of New Linguistic Realities

Edited by Emilee Moore, Jessica Bradley, James Simpson

Publication date:

12 May 2020

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781788928045

This book examines translanguaging as a resource which can disrupt the privileging of particular voices, and a social practice which enables collaboration within and across groups of people. Addressing the themes of collaboration and transformation, the chapters critically examine how people work together to catalyse change in diverse global contexts, experiences and traditions. The authors suggest an epistemological and methodological turn to the study of translanguaging, which is particularly reflected in the collaborative, arts-based and action research/activist approaches followed in the chapters. The book will be of particular interest to scholars using ethnographic, critical and collaborative action and activist research approaches to the study of multilingualism in educational and creative arts contexts.

Ofelia García: Foreword: Co-labor and Re-Performances

Jessica Bradley, Emilee Moore and James Simpson: Translanguaging as Transformation: The Collaborative Construction of New Linguistic Realities

Part I: Collaborative Relationships

Mike Baynham: Comment on Part I: Collaborative Relationships

Chapter 1. Margaret R. Hawkins: Toward Critical Cosmopolitanism: Transmodal Transnational Engagements of Youth

Chapter 2. James Simpson: Translanguaging in ESOL: Competing Positions and Collaborative Relationships

Chapter 3. Sari Pöyhönen, Lotta Kokkonen, Mirja Tarnanen and Maija Lappalainen: Belonging, Trust and Relationships: Collaborative Photography with Unaccompanied Minors

Chapter 4. Camilo Ballena, Dolors Masats and Virginia Unamuno: The Transformation of Language Practices: Notes from the Wichi Community of Los Lotes (Chaco, Argentina)

Part II: Collaborative Processes

Adrian Blackledge: Comment on Part II: Collaborative Processes

Chapter 5. Joëlle Aden and Sandrine Eschenauer: Translanguaging: An Enactive-Performative Approach to Language Education

Chapter 6. Jane Andrews, Richard Fay, Katja Frimberger, Gameli Tordzro and Tawona Sitholé: Theorising Arts-Based Collaborative Research Processes

Chapter Seven. Jessica Bradley and Louise Atkinson: Translanguaging as Bricolage: Meaning Making and Collaborative Ethnography in Community Arts

Chapter 8. Emilee Moore and Ginalda Tavares: Telling the Stories of Youth: Co-Producing Knowledge across Social Worlds

Part III: Collaborative Outcomes

Zhu Hua and Li Wei: Comment on Part III: Collaborative Outcomes

Chapter 9. Lou Harvey: Entangled Trans-ing: Co-Creating a Performance of Language and Intercultural Research

Chapter 10. Kendall A. King and Martha Bigelow: The Hyper-Local Development of Translanguaging Pedagogies

Chapter 11. Júlia Llompart-Esbert and Luci Nussbaum: Collaborative and Participatory Research for Plurilingual Language Learning

Chapter 12. Claudia Vallejo Rubinstein: Translanguaging as Practice and as Outcome: Bridging across Educational Milieus through a Collaborative Service-Learning Project

Angela Creese: Afterword: Starting from the Other End

This collection of studies constitutes a ground-breaking move towards a much better understanding of translanguaging and its transformative potential in education. The highly creative collaborative projects reported provide a sound empirical basis and clear models for pedagogic intervention that challenge traditional ideas about language and communication.