Training Multilingual Writing Strategies in Higher Education : Multilingual Approaches to Writing-to-learn in Discipline-specific Courses

This book provides a research-driven discussion of how the epistemic potential of multilingual writing strategies can be conceptualized, investigated, and leveraged in higher education. Research results are reported from an intervention study in two discipline-specific, writing-intensive HE content courses. The study triangulates survey data with think-aloud & screen-recording data and with product data in a pre/post design. Based on the research findings, the book details a multilingual teaching framework in which a translanguaging approach is enhanced with instructional practices from translation training.

Ina Alexandra Machura is a post-doctoral researcher focusing on the relationships between multilingual writing knowledge and the epistemic potential of multilingual & multimodal writing. She also publishes on writing beyond the university and work-integrated learning. She teaches discipline-specific courses in English/German Linguistics. Additionally, she co-creates writing-intensive courses in the social and life sciences.