Short description:

This volume provides six distinct frameworks for integrating translanguaging and multimodality as pedagogical possibilities in today?s classrooms and beyond. It was originally published as a special issue of Pedagogies: An International Journal.

Long description:

This volume provides six distinct frameworks for integrating translanguaging and multimodality as pedagogical possibilities in today?s classrooms and beyond. It brings the two constructs together in investigating the language and literacy experiences of multilingual learners across a range of sociocultural and educational contexts.

The book features contributions from scholars across the Global North and Global South who embrace the importance of validating scholarly experiences from the Global South as a way to transcend geographical boundaries in creating more equitable knowledge spaces.  The contributing authors share their innovative theoretical and methodological orientations to translanguaging and multimodality, informed by their considerable expertise as scholars and educators. They address conceptual questions such as issues related to cultural flow, civic and professional identities, entanglement, materiality, ?first-order languaging,? and raciolinguistic ideologies. Each chapter deals with these questions through integrated and innovative analyses of empirical evidence in: Chinese word instruction, teacher professional development, multimodal composition, online language tutoring, and online teaching videos in Global South societies or transnational interactions. Together, the chapters push against normative theoretical and applied boundaries to help us envision new dynamic intersections of translanguaging and multimodality for today's classrooms and societies.

Provocative and disruptive, this book explores the possibilities of mixing and remixing definitions, epistemological standpoints, and methodological options and shows the continuing growth found in translanguaging and multimodality research worldwide. It will be a key resource for practitioners, researchers, and scholars of education and pedagogy, bilingual education, language and literacy education, applied linguistics, literacy studies, and language arts. It was originally published as a special issue of Pedagogies: An International Journal.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: a collective vision for translanguaging and multimodality  1. Translanguaging flows in Chinese word instruction: potential critical sociolinguistic engagement with children?s artistic representations of Chinese characters  2. Systemic functional multimodal discourse analysis: multimodal composing and civic agency of multilingual youth  3. Teachers inquiring into translanguaging and multimodal pedagogies: emerging creative and critical entanglements during transnational professional development  4. Reconceptualizing semiotic resources in the eco-social system of an online language tutoring course  5. Orchestrating multimodal resources in English language teaching: a critical study of an online English teaching video  6. Translanguaging within multimodal composition products and processes: a systematic review  Afterword: translanguaging, multimodality, southern theory, and pedagogical possibilities