Translingualism perceives the boundaries between languages as unstable and permeable;
this creates a complex challenge for writing pedagogy. Writers shift actively among rhetorical
strategies from multiple languages, sometimes importing lexical or discoursal tropes from
one language into another to introduce an effect, solve a problem, or construct an identity.
How to accommodate this reality while answering the charge to teach the conventions of
one language can be a vexing problem for teachers. Crossing Divides offers diverse …

In this edited collection, Bruce Horner and Laura Tetreault explore a variety of contributions
that introduce and discuss translingualism and its application. Based on the CCCC 2013–14
preconvention workshops on “Crossing Divides I and II: Pedagogical and Institutional
Strategies for Translingual Writing” and after the special issue on “Translingual work” in
College English, 2016, comes this collection. With twelve chapters, divided in four parts, it
makes a valuable contribution to the emerging discourse of translingual research and …