translanguaging
translanguaging noun: the dynamic process whereby multilingual language users mediate complex social and cognitive activities through strategic employment of multiple semiotic resources to act, to know, and to be. Also the present participle and gerund of translanguage.
Noun
translanguaging (countable and uncountable, plural translanguagings)
- The dynamic process whereby multilingual language users mediate complex social and cognitive activities through strategic employment of multiple semiotic resources to act, to know, and to be.
- The idea of translingualism, as it is often called in composition studies or translanguaging as it is often called in linguistics, rejects the monolingual norm.2020 October 27, Emily Bouza, Tim Cavnar, and Keli Tucker, “Translingualism: An Alternative to Restrictive Monolingual Ideologies in Writing Instruction”, in Another Word
Also used as
translanguaging is also the present participle and gerund of translanguage.
Forms of translanguaging
| plural | translanguagings |
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Origin of translanguaging
From trans- + languaging.
Questions about translanguaging
- What does translanguaging mean?
- Translanguaging means the dynamic process whereby multilingual language users mediate complex social and cognitive activities through strategic employment of multiple semiotic resources to act, to know, and to be.
- What part of speech is translanguaging?
- Translanguaging is a noun.
- What is the plural of translanguaging?
- The plural of translanguaging is translanguagings.
Words near translanguaging in the dictionary
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