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 …

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 …

Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism
and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black …

Following the multilingual trend in language education, translanguaging advocates active
use of multiple languages and other meaning-making resources in a dynamic and …

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 …

Innovations and Challenges in Applied Linguistics from the Global South provides an
original appraisal of the latest innovations and challenges in applied linguistics from the …

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