Abstract Since Cen Williams first used the Welsh term trawsieithu in 1994 to refer to a
pedagogical practice where students in bilingual Welsh/English classrooms are asked to …

This article explores the recent development of translanguaging from the perspective of
multilingualism. This is in light of the multilingual turn in the field of foreign language …

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 …

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

With multilingualism drawing increasing attention from sociolinguistic scholars in the past
two decades, the traditional monolingual ideology in language teaching has been …

Traditionally, languages have been separated from each other in the school curriculum and
there has been little consideration for resources that learners possess as emergent …

Translanguaging is a theoretical lens that offers a different view of bilingualism and
multilingualism. The theory posits that rather than possessing two or more autonomous …

This study examined Finnish teachers'(N= 820) beliefs related to multilingualism and
teaching multilingual Finnish language learners. Teachers' beliefs were mainly positive …