ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Translanguaging

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Translanguaging is a noun meaning present participle and gerund of translanguage.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of translanguage.

More Meanings

  1. (linguistics) 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.

Example Sentences

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.

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Related Words

Related dictionary entries include multilingualization, mixoglossia, interference, code-switching, transmediation, babelization.

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