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translanguaging en · NOUN

Etymology

From trans- + languaging.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The dynamic process whereby multilingual language users mediate complex social and cognitive activities through strategic employment of multiple semiotic resources to act, to know, and to be.
    • The idea of translingualism, as it is often called in composition studies or translanguaging as it is often called in linguistics, rejects the monolingual norm. 2020 October 27, Emily Bouza, Tim Cavnar, and Keli Tucker, “Translingualism: An Alternative to Restrictive Monolingual Ideologies in Writing Instruction”, in Another Word:

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translanguaging en · VERB

Etymology

From trans- + languaging.

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of translanguage