Advocacy in Translanguaging Education

This volume is a powerful advocacy for translanguaging in education. Krompák, Meyer, and Makarova, along with the contributors, center the voices of multilinguals – whether migrants, Indigenous communities, or dominant majority speakers – highlighting their agency in learning and identity-building. This book is an essential read for educators and researchers committed to linguistic justice and equity. * Sender Dovchin, Curtin University, Australia *
This excellent volume on translanguaging in diverse education contexts explores how multilingual speakers draw on their full linguistic repertoires to challenge traditional boundaries and promote inclusive, dynamic learning spaces. Offering critical overviews and applications, the book promotes advocacy for inclusive practices. It shows how pedagogical translanguaging improves proficiency, promotes equity, and challenges monolingual norms. It is essential reading for educators and researchers committed to supporting multilingual learners. * Jasone Cenoz and Durk Gorter, University of the Basque Country, Spain *
This volume presents rich and thorough evidence of translanguaging as both transformative theory and practice. The chapters reflect a deeply intertwined diversity of situated educational and research experiences and form a robust and exhilarating assemblage of voices, principles and practices which greatly contribute to the development of authoritative new meanings and understandings of a practical theory of translanguaging in contemporary society. * Cláudia Hilsdorf Rocha, UNICAMP Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil *