Remaking Multilingualism

A Translanguaging Approach

Edited by Bahar Otcu-Grillman, Maryam Borjian

Publication date:

08 February 2022

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781800410848

This book is both a collection of cutting-edge research in the areas of multilingualism, translanguaging and bilingual education by leading scholars in these fields, and a tribute to the research and influence of Ofelia García. The chapters use a variety of methodological approaches and research designs to address topics across language policy, sociology of language and bilingual education, representing the full breadth of Ofelia García’s scholarship. Combined with the empirical chapters are more personal chapters which testify to the contributions Ofelia has made as a mentor, colleague and friend. The book recognizes Ofelia García’s place at the centre of a movement to remake multilingualism in the service of linguistic equality, justice, pluralism, diversity and inclusion in schools and societies worldwide.

Contributors

Bernard Spolsky: Foreword: A Note on Ofelia García

Maryam Borjian and Bahar Otcu-Grillman: Preface: The Genesis of this Book

Introduction

Maryam Borjian: Part One: The Local Roots and Global Reach of Ofelia García’s Multilingualism

Bahar Otcu-Grillman: Part Two: A Tribute to Ofelia García: A Translanguaging Approach

Part 1: Remaking Multilingualism

Chapter 1. Nancy H. Hornberger: Imagining Multilingualism with Ofelia: Translanguaging and the Continua of Biliteracy

Chapter 2. Suresh Canagarajah: A Mentor from Afar

Chapter 3. Bahar Otcu-Grillman: Ofelia García’s Global Classroom

Chapter 4. Lesley Bartlett: A Letter for Ofelia García

Part 2: Bilingual Pedagogies and Teacher Education

Chapter 5. Jo Anne Kleifgen: Emergent Bilinguals and Trans-Semiotic Practices in the New Media Age

Chapter 6. Marianne Turner and Angel M.Y. Lin: Using ‘Transfeaturing’ to Explore Differentiation in the Pursuit of Translanguaging Pedagogical Goals

Chapter 7. Anel V. Suriel and Mary E. Curran: Translanguaging in an Urban Social Justice Teacher Education Program

Chapter 8. Ivana Espinet and Karen Zaino: Where the Banyan Tree Grows: Nurturing Teachers’ Translanguaging Pedagogy through a Study Group

Chapter 9. Carmina Makar: Bilingual Teachers Engage: Poetic Inquiry as a Site for Languaging Dilemmas

Part 3: Bilingual Community Education

Chapter 10. Li Wei and Zhu Hua: Parental Voices in Bilingual Education

Chapter 11. Bahar Otcu-Grillman: Translanguaging in Bilingual Community Education

Chapter 12. Fabrice Jaumont: Bilingual Education: Making a U-Turn with Parents and Communities

Part 4: Language Policy and Language Ideologies

Chapter 13. Angela Creese and Adrian Blackledge: Translanguaging: An Ideological Perspective

Chapter 14. Maryam Borjian: Multiple Actors and Interactions are at Work: English Language Policies in Post-Revolutionary Iran

Chapter 15. Sarah Hesson: Reimagining Language Policy through the Lived Realities of Bilingual Youth

Chapter 16. Sharon Avni: American Jewish Summer Camps as Translanguaging Thirdspaces

Part 5: Epilogue

Jo Anne Kleifgen: Afterword: A Brief History of Work and Play with Ofelia García

Bahar Otcu-Grillman: Appendix: A List of Ofelia García’s Publications with Multilingual Matters

Index

This book is both a richly deserved tribute to Ofelia García and a text that helps develop the fast-moving and increasingly popular concept of ‘translanguaging’, with contributions by many eminent scholars. A must-read for those many scholars and students who admire not only Ofelia’s writings but also her warm and empathic personality, it makes a major contribution to the study of translanguaging.