Educational Research and Evaluation· 2012Q2
Translanguaging: origins and development from school to street and beyond
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Translanguaging, originating in Welsh education in the 1980s, has evolved from a planned pedagogical tool to a spontaneous, everyday meaning-making strategy for bilinguals, now conceptualized across classroom, universal, and neurolinguistic domains.
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Key points
- Translanguaging originated in Welsh education in the 1980s.
- The concept has broadened from planned pedagogy to spontaneous, everyday bilingual communication.
- A neurolinguistic view sees translanguaging as brain activity for learning across two languages.
- A tripartite distinction is proposed: classroom, universal, and neurolinguistic translanguaging.
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Abstract
The article traces the Welsh origins of “translanguaging” from the 1980s to the recent global use, analysing the development and extension of the term. It suggests that the growing popularity of the term relates to a change in the way bilingualism and multilingualism have ideologically developed not only among academics but also amid changing politics and public understandings about bilingualism. The original pedagogic advantages of a planned use of translanguaging in pedagogy and dual literacy are joined by an extended conceptualisation that perceives translanguaging as a spontaneous, everyday way of making meaning, shaping experiences, and communication by bilinguals. A new conceptualisation of translanguaging is in brain activity where learning is through 2 languages. A tripartite distinction is suggested between classroom translanguaging, universal translanguaging, and neurolinguistic translanguaging. The article concludes with a summary of recent research into translanguaging with suggestions for future research.
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Field: Linguistics and Language
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