Translingual Dispositions : Globalized Approaches to the Teaching of Writing

Working within the framework of translanguaging, the contributors to this collection offer nuanced explorations of how translingual dispositions can be facilitated in English-medium postsecondary writing programs and classrooms. The authors and editors comprise a wide array of writing scholars from diverse teaching and learning contexts with a corresponding array of institutional, disciplinary, and pedagogical expectations and pressures. The work shared in this collection offers readers cases of translingual dispositions that consider the personal, pedagogical, and institutional challenges associated with the adoption of a translingual disposition and interrogate academic translingual practices in U.S. and international English-medium settings.

Alanna Frost is associate professor at the University of Alabama Huntsville. Her work has been published in College Composition and Communication and Critical Education.

Julia E. Kiernan is assistant professor of communication at Lawrence Technological University. Her publications have appeared in a number of edited collections and journals, including Composition Studies, Communication & Language at Work, and L1-Educational Studies in Language and Literature.

Suzanne Blum Malley is provost and professor of English and writing at Methodist University. Her recent publications include “Ludic is the New Phatic: Making Connections in Global, Internet-mediated Learning Environments” in Thinking Globally, Composing Locally.