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
- (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.
Word Forms
- translanguagings
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include multilingualization, mixoglossia, interference, code-switching, transmediation, babelization.
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