Academic Biliteracies

David M. Palfreyman is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Zayed University, UAE. His research interests include language, culture and learning in postsecondary education and he is the co-editor of Learning and Teaching Across Cultures in Higher Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).Christa van der Walt is Professor in the Department of Curriculum Studies at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her research interests include the role of English in multilingual, academic contexts and she is the author of Multilingual Higher Education (Multilingual Matters, 2013).

• David M. Palfreyman, Christa Van Der Walt: Introduction: Biliteracies in Higher Education1. Tracey Costley: “No Way, I Could Never Write My Essays In Cantonese: I Only Know How To Do It In English”: Understanding Undergraduate Students’ Languages and Literacies at a Hong Kong University2. Alberto Esquinca, Erika Mein, Elsa Q. Villa and Angélica Monárrez: Academic Biliteracy in College: Borderland Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Mobilization of Semiotic Resources3. Catherine Mazak, A.J. Rivera and Lauren E. Perez Mangonez: Translanguaging in University Literacy Practices: Bilingual Collaboration around English Texts4. Ellen Hurst, Mbulungeni Madiba and Shannon Morreira: Surfacing and Valuing Students' Linguistic Resources in an English-Dominant University5. Julia E. Kiernan: Translation Narratives: Engaging Multilingual Learners in Translingual Writing Practices6. Bassey Antia and Charlyn Dyers: Affirming the Biliteracy of University Students: Provision of Multilingual Lecture Resources at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa7. Gwawr Ifan and Rhian Hodges: Creative Collaboration in Higher Education: A Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Case Study8. Danping Wang: Bilingual Research Literacy for Chinese Language Teachers9. Beverly Baker, David M. Palfreyman, Gwenn Hiller, Wilson Poha and Zina Manu: Biliteracy as Policy in Academic InstitutionsGuillaume Gentil: Afterword: Moving Forward with Academic Biliteracy Research

In our globalized world the use of multiple languages to engage with others and wrestle with ideas and concepts is increasingly common in higher education. This volume is an important and timely contribution to understanding the opportunities that the fluid use of more than one language offers teachers, learners and researchers.