Translanguaging

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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. countable, uncountable

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of translanguage form-of, gerund, participle, present

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"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."

Etymology

From trans- + languaging.

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