In a world with existential issues, inequalities/injustice are (re)emerging in varying degrees around the globe, and yet, each of us strives to sustain our life with our own disappointments/griefs and desires/hopes. Then, identity formation research should elucidate how a human being makes sense of multifaceted voices/dimensions ('selves' and…

Translanguaging scholars have debated whether dismantling boundaries between "named" languages is necessary for social justice in education. To explore this issue, we examined teachers' reported use of named languages or translanguaging in classroom activities. We used a survey as an interview protocol to compare the extent to which four…

Translanguaging in applied linguistics and foreign language pedagogy has attracted scholars' attention and interest in recent years. Myriad theoretical and empirical research on translanguaging has been conducted. However, little comprehensive science mapping exists in this field. Hence, the present study aimed to examine the academic output in…

This paper explores the role of intersectional reflexivity in conducting an autoethnographic exploration of personal transformation within academic research. Using autoethnographic data from regular journaling, I illustrate my shift from a profoundly ingrained positivist research mode toward embracing alternative theoretical traditions that…

As linguistic and cultural diversity increases globally, teachers need to develop translanguaging pedagogies that leverage students' full linguistic repertoires. Enacting such pedagogies can be challenging due to policy, ideology, and knowledge constraints. This study explores the processes and factors that allow Translanguaging Communities of…

How do you read the word "Puke?" It depends on what language you assign to the word--Te Reo Maori or English. This article discusses this politics of "assigning language" and what epistemological and historical contexts shape that process, based on the author's ethnographic fieldwork at a secondary school in Aotearoa/New…

This study employed a qualitative interpretative case study methodology, involving two teachers and one class of learners from two selected schools. The researcher used observation to address a critical question: How does the application of the Tshivenda scientific language register shape meaningful learning? The findings reveal that the…

This study addressed potential differential effects of EF training as a function of language background. Training monolingual children with EF-fostering challenges and feedback may support them more than multilinguals, who face comparable challenges when switching languages. We assessed monolingual (n = 110) and multilingual (n = 91) 6-year-olds…

Translanguaging is increasingly recognized as an essential strategy to improve epistemic access in multilingual societies, including many developing societies. This view is especially spurred by scholarly results that have confirmed that all languages are essential resources for learning beyond the language of teaching and learning. Therefore,…

Language policies in a number of multilingual post/neocolonial contexts continue to be informed by monolingual ideologies that support English-only policy in education, while translanguaging practices continue to witness stigmatization at the hands of stakeholders. These dominant ideologies act as a barrier to achieving inclusive and quality…

This article explores linguistic creativity and innovation in multilingual advertising in Jordan through the use of signs displaying Arabinglish with multiple forms in the Jordanian linguistic landscape (LL). Drawing upon notions of nexus analysis [Scollon, R., & Scollon, S. W. (2004). "Nexus analysis: Discourse and the emerging…

Translanguaging has recently gained much currency in second language (L2) education. While the conceptualization of this theory stems from the goal of enhancing L2 education for learners, one challenge scholars have underlined is the need for more responsive, practical classroom activities consistent with translanguaging principles and stance.…

Codeswitching has been used as a tool to investigate how the properties of the two language systems interact in the bilingual mind with relatively few studies investigating bilingual children. We target two groups of L1-Spanish-L2-English children in Spain to address language activation and language inhibition in the processing of codeswitching…

Reiterative code-switching, when one lexical item from one language is produced immediately after a semantically equivalent lexical item in another language, is a frequent phenomenon in studies of language contact. Several spoken language studies suggest that reiteration functions as a form of accommodation, amplification (emphasis),…

Many bilinguals switch languages in daily-life conversations. Although this usually happens within sentence context and with another speaker, most research on the cognitive mechanisms underlying the production of language switches has studied individual words. Here, we examined how context influences both switching frequency and the temporal cost…