Literacy as Translingual Practice: Between Communities and Classrooms A. Suresh Canagarajah (ed.) (2013) London and New York, Routledge. pp. 256 ISBN-13, 978-0415524674
Abstract
In coining new terms or proposing a new concept, it is important to survey the new territory to make sure that the land has not been previously inhabited by other peoples. (In fact, much of what passes as new ideas about language in U.S. college composition have already been discussed in applied linguistics.) (Matsuda, 2013: 135) As noted by Paul Matsuda in Chapter 12 of this volume ("It's the Wild West Out There: A New Linguistic Frontier in U.S. College Composition"), compositionists need to ensure that intellectual accountability is observed in a new composition era. Echoing a similar sentiment, Lewis, Jones, and Baker (2012: 649) point out that "a plethora of similar terms (e.g., metrolingualism, polylanguaging, languaging, heteroglossia, codemeshing, translingual practice, flexible bilingualism, multilanguaging and hybrid language practices) makes [the] extension of translanguaging appear in need of focused explication and more precise definition" (emphasis added). While these new terms warrant explication, a point to which I will return later, the above observations also underscore how writing and literacy stand to benefit from developments in applied linguistics.
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- 2015-06-13
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