Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education (Palgrave Pivot) - Hardcover

Garcia, O.; Wei, L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137385758 ISBN 13: 9781137385758

Publisher: Palgrave Pivot, 2013

Synopsis

Winner of the British Association of Applied Linguistics Book Prize 2014
This book addresses how the new linguistic concept of 'Translanguaging' has contributed to our understandings of language, bilingualism and education, with potential to transform not only semiotic systems and speaker subjectivities, but also social structures.

About this title

About the Author:

Ofelia García is Professor in the Ph.D. programs of Urban Education and of Hispanic and Luso-Brazilian Literatures and Languages at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA. She is the Associate General Editor of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language.

Li Wei is Pro-Vice-Master of Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, where he is Chair of Applied Linguistics and Director of the Birkbeck Graduate Research School. He is Academician of Social Sciences, and Chair of the General & Applied Linguistics, UK, and is Principal Editor of the International Journal of Bilingualism.

Review:

"This is a must read for everyone interested in an innovative social and psychological approach to the study of doing language and learning." - Elizabeth Lanza, University of Oslo and Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan, Norway

"An exhilarating and authoritative look into translanguaging as creative, critical, and transformative." - Nancy Hornberger, University of Pennsylvania, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1137385758
• ISBN 13: 9781137385758
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 175